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Toto · 08-13-2009, 10:35 AM

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In a new six-part series scheduled to air this summer on the Discovery Channel, Cooney lays out reasonable explanations for parallels in religious and burial traditions and settlement patterns across a range of cultures with no documented previous contact with each other.

In "Out of Egypt," she expertly traces themes and variations on six traditions across 12 cultures and 10 countries. In addition to the proliferation of pyramids, Cooney looks at the prevalence of the belief in the devil, intermixing of religion and violence, burial traditions, use of religious relics and certain social repercussions of city life.

“When faced with the same materials on this Earth, the same biological matter and laws of physics, and similar societies based on inequality and the need to demonstrate dominance and power, people will come up with very similar strategies independently of one other,” Cooney explained in “Out of Egypt.” “Humanity seems to create the same patterns again and again.”

I suspect this might have some relevance to some of the eternal themes on this forum.

Vampyroteuthis · 08-13-2009, 10:49 AM

Very interesting!! I will be sure to watch this!

Thanks!

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Vampyroteuthis Contributor Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 14,915	Very interesting!! I will be sure to watch this! Thanks!

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