Modifications of Theocentrism

Abstract

The five approaches to an understanding of the existential position of man developed in five distinct places in a geographical belt stretching between the Tropic of Cancer and the Fortieth Parallel of the northern hemisphere. Mutual contacts between individual civilizations in this belt, prior to the emergence of their respective paradigms, are sufficiently proven by archaeological finds of their artefacts and by some affinity in their artistic presentation. Such contacts are especially noteworthy with respect to the twins: Sumeria and Egypt, Sumeria and the Indus Valley, Egypt and pre-Hellenic Crete. In the absence of insight into the spiritual dimension of such contacts, however, the different paradigms can be assumed to be independent, even if not wholly original.