What is a Primitive World

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What is a “primitive world”?

Perhaps we have forgotten what “primitive” means for a long time. The world’s meaning changed with the disappearance of the intellectual construct to which it belonged. “Primitive world,” “Primitive people,” “Premitive language and beliefs” did not refer to a state that was immature, prelogical, or even little developed by humanity, as we might have tendency to think based on Levy-Bruhl. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_L%C3%A9vy-Bruhl. What was primitive was not a “mentality” or a stage of intellectual, psychological, or social development. It was not a way of being relative to the world that could be placed at such and such a degree on the scale of evolution where we would be placed at a higher level. Nor was it something rudimentary, some yet-t0-be-displayed ability waiting for its actualization.

It was, on the other hand, a uniform space-time continuum that constituted the substrate of history -- a first, ageless, self-sufficient world where unity supposedly reigned. The same gods were worshiped everywhere, under different names. Despite the disparity in customs and the diversity in appearances, the same beliefs were present everywhere. Given the differences between languages, the same names still referred to the same gods. Jean-Sylvian Baily wrote, for example, “A crowd of ancient practices claims both an earlier people and a common source.” ~ Page 29

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And LIGHT was made
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