Human Beliefs And Myths. 1

"A myth is a public dream, a dream is a private myth." Joseph Campbell.

As long as man has been on earth, every culture has had its own belief and myth system, with similar parts. All the great ancient cultures, are a foundation of today's life for us. From the early start of our civlization, when man learned how to master the surrounding environment, through the different stages of culture development in the Stone Age.The high cultures in different parts of the world, laid the foundation for our own existance, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Minoans, Etruscans and the Celts

The statuette represents the writer Dudu who lived in 2500 BC. in the Sumerian city of Lagash.

A diving man.The statue shows the skill of the Etruscan artists in describing the anatomy of the body.

Yet, in our time, there are living remnants of an ancient age, people who still stand at the level of the Stone Age, and which gives us opportunities for insights into the lives of our ancestors.However, these groups decrease on the grounds of forest felling, burning of large areas, poisoned waterways and countless roads in the jungle, destroying the land and wildlife for the natives.

The human mankind has early experienced climat changes, continent's growing and melting ice, but survived. They endured snowstorms, flooding, coldness and burning heat. All these obstacles were man able to overcome by help of the developed brain. The brain helped the humans to survive and adapt, much faster than the animals. One of nature's greates gifts to man was the use of fire, and by that to learn the art of cooking in order to get warm food. Hunting and war were also parts of the human life. War, seems still to be a part of our civilization. 

In Egypt, Osiris, the god of death.

These statuettes are perhaps evidence that the Stone Age people worshiped a Goddess of Motherhood.

A drink cup from Knossos in the form  of a bull's head. The bull was an important Minoan symbol. Zeus was said to have robbed Eauropa in the shape of a bull, with time Minos was born, the Cretan legend king.

A necklace worn by a Celtic  chieftain in England.