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Heroes, Gods, Sanctuaries—The Male Principle and Collective Cult

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The foundations of an ideology that we today would call religious thus developed during the Neolithic: a belief in, or a conceptualisation of, all-powerful creatures existed, who influenced the fate of men, who had to be cared for during the worship of the dead, and who are envisioned in the course of a ritual.

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Wunn, I., Grojnowski, D. (2016). Heroes, Gods, Sanctuaries—The Male Principle and Collective Cult. In: Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52757-3_11

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