Just some thinking
Mar. 4th, 2010 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdI'm transcribing some things from chicken scratch script onto the computer. One of them is a short piece on the Yoruba religion. The person who wrote it said that they had a "very advanced system of cosmology".
Which gave me two simultaneous thoughts: One. What would an un-advanced system of cosmology be? Two. Isn't that rather condescending?
Which gave me two simultaneous thoughts: One. What would an un-advanced system of cosmology be? Two. Isn't that rather condescending?
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Date: 2010-03-05 05:50 am (UTC)An un-advanced system of cosmology would be that of more primitive religions or peoples, the ones where the entire universe consists of what they can see. This is especially true for those that believe they are INSIDE a container of some sort (sphere) and that the sun and moon are just lights moving on the surface of that container, etc.