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[The] '''''Moral Evolution of Coscivian Spiritual Civilisation''''' ([[Kiravic]]: ''Intærix Setraréstor Koskix Xistuakansektarsk'') is a {{wp|book}} on the topic of [[Prehistory of Great Kirav|prehistoric Kiravian]] religion, published in 1939 AD by Kiravian [[dark philologist]] D.B. Aktagardin, a fellow at the Shrouded Orb University in Aısenśinar, [[Hiterna]].
[The] '''''Moral Evolution of Coscivian Spiritual Civilisation''''' ([[Kiravic]]: ''Intærix Setraréstor Koskix Xistuakansektarsk'') is a {{wp|book}} on the topic of [[Prehistory of Great Kirav|prehistoric Kiravian]] religion, published in 1939 AD by Kiravian [[dark philologist]] D.B. Aktagardin, a fellow at the Shrouded Orb University in Aısenśinar, [[Hiterna]]. The book presents a comprehensive theory of the dark-historical and deep-historical origins of major elements of Coscivian morality, religious life, and broader culture, arranged in a linear, progressive historical narrative and contextualised by archæology and natural history.
 
After several rounds of revisions to satisfy political censors, ''Moral Evolution of Coscivian Spiritual Civilisation'' became an overnight blockbuster by the standards of academic publishing, and was widely circulated among scholars in [[Kiravian Sunderance|both Kiravias]] and the Coscivian diaspora. Aktagardin's became - and remains - the most widely understood and most widely taught theory of prehistoric Kiravian religion, less on account of its factual validity than on account of being the first theory of its kind on the scene, its satisfying logical propositions, a dearth of rival theories, and the quality of Aktagardin's writing.  


==General Outline==
==General Outline==
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==Stages of Moral-Spiritual Development==
==Stages of Moral-Spiritual Development==
Aktagardin lays out a stagewise model of the evolution of Coscivian religion. Comparisons between the text of the original print run and later editions based on the author's unpublished manuscripts and working material show that in the originally published versions Aktagardin revised his staging paradigm to tie the stages more closely to archæological modes of production and therefore more closely to Marxist orthodoxy.  
Aktagardin lays out a stagewise model of the evolution of Coscivian religion. Comparisons between the text of the original 1930s-1940s print runs and later editions based on the author's unpublished manuscripts and working material show that in the originally published versions Aktagardin had revised his staging system to tie the stages more closely to archæological modes of production and bring his theory more into line with the orthodoxy of {{wp|Marxist anthropology}} being enforced at the time.  


===Moon & Ocean Age===
===Moon & Ocean Age===
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===Lunar Monotheïstic Age===
===Lunar Monotheïstic Age===
Aktagardin locates the transition from the Moon-Ocean Faith to Exclusive Moon-Worship between the Last Glacial Retreat at the earliest or as the Mesolithic at the latest, and argues that the Lunar Monotheism developing therefrom would represent the most advanced expression of spiritual civilisation through the Neolithic Revolution.


This takes us (based entirely on the guy's gut)  from as early as the Last Glacial Retreat or as late as the Mesolithic, on thro' through the Neolithic Revolution.
For reasons unknown and in all likelihood unknowable, the Moon-and-Ocean dyad broke down at some point after the Ice Age, and Kiravians became either Moon-worshippers or Ocean-fearers. Aktagardin notes that while vestigial influences of Ocean spirituality survive into modern times - most recognisably in ''[[paopatra]]'' but more subtly elsewhere - it is the legacy of Moon spirituality that pervades and predominates Coscivian culture as far back as conventional history and deep history can see. Therefore, he argues, that these once complementary spiritual paths did not merely diverge but became mutually exclusive and mutually intolerant, unable to coëxist even in the autarkic, low-density band society of the time. Although he does not propose a definitive mechanism by which Moon Worship displaced Ocean-Fearing, he identifies eliminationist violent confrontation between the two proto-religions as by far the most likely, given that Kiravites living before the Lawful Commonwealth are known to have had a very limited repertoire of conflict-resolution strategies not involving {{wp|blunt-force trauma}}.


For unknown reasons, the Moon-and-Ocean dyad breaks down and people become either Moon-worshippers or Ocean-fearers. Drama ensues.
Aktagardin speculates that different interpretations of the retreat of the Central Kiravian Glacier - the most significant natural occurrence of this time period - may have played a role. Ocean-fearers had long contrasted the life-giving ocean with the life-negating Glacier and credited the ocean with keeping the Glacier at bay, observing that glacial melt flows into the ocean. Moon-worshippers had long credited the Moon with bringing their ancestors over the pack ice and trusted that the Moon would once again protect them from the malign gelid force of the Glacier if they migrated inland. Perchance. A more strictly Marxian hypothesis attributing the divergence to the adoption of rudimentary horticulture without identifying a clear causal connexion was added when the book was resubmitted to the censorship board, and has been explored by later authors.


The glacial retreat may have something to do with this: Some speculate that Ocean-fearers contrasted the life-giving ocean with the life-negating Glacier and credited the ocean with keeping the Glacier at bay, observing that glacial melt flows into the ocean. Moon-worshippers credited the Moon with bringing the ancestors over the ice and trusted that the Moon would protect them from the Glacier if they migrated inland. Perchance. Marxists insist that rudimentary horticulture was somehow behind the divergence, but truly no one knows.
Regardless of how or why the Moon-Ocean schism happened, it resulted in a divergence of worldviews between the monistic, fatalistic ocean death-cult and the more fideistic and transcendental lunar religion, which will eventually come to resemble other world monotheïstic faiths in key respects. Ocean spirituality is described as emphasising the precarity of life in an environment of unpredictable and catastrophic change,  and explores the contradiction between the irrepressible human will to survive and the inevitability of being swallowed back up by the all-consuming Ocean. The Ocean creates and nurtures all life and also destroys and devours all life. This fosters an attitude of ecstatic resignation and high-octane enthusiasm toward change, death, and suffering, and places a high spiritual value on passion, especially in its spontaneous extremes of euphoria, terror, abandon, and what very serious real psychoanalysts call "LFG energy". Moon spirituality, in contrast, emphasises a pervasive cosmic order and a body of truths hidden above and beyond immediate human perception but partially discoverable through a reverent and contemplative experience of reality. This engenders an attitude toward change comparable to what is found in {{wp|Taoism}} or {{wp|Stoicism|Stoïcism}}, and accordingly ''Saropatra'' values calm, moderation, peace, and neutrality. Ocean spirituality has more in common with shamanistic and oracular traditions, whereas Moon spirituality has more in common with monastic, ascetic, and mystical traditions. Ocean-fearers paid great attention to doomsayers, hysterics, and persons plagued by nightmares, whereas Moon-worshippers found deeper meaning in different forms of {{wp|trance states}}, meditation, {{wp|vision quests}}, and cryptic symbolism in their dreams.
 
The question of "How does this relate to the endemic and ritualistic interband violence that characterised pre-Emperor Kirav?" is mentioned as question to be explored in a companion volume. The companion volume in question was never published and is presumed {{wp|lost work|lost}}.


Regardless of how or why this happened, it resulted in a divergence of worldviews between the monistic, fatalistic ocean death-cult and the more fideistic and transcendental lunar religion, which will eventually come to resemble other world monotheïstic faiths in key respects.
=== Moral Foundations Age ===
Ocean spirituality, on the other hand, emphasises the precarity of life in an environment of unpredictable and catastrophic change,  and explores the contradiction between the irrepressible human will to survive and the inevitability of being swallowed back up by the all-consuming Ocean. The Ocean creates and nurtures all life and also destroys and devours all life. More ecstatic resignation and LFG YASS ME GUSTA attitude toward change, death, suffering. Paopatra values passion, especially in its spontaneous extremes of euphoria, terror, LFG energy , etc.


Moon spirituality emphasises a pervasive cosmic order and a body of truths hidden above and beyond immediate human perception but partially discoverable through a reverent and contemplative experience of reality. More Taoist/Stoic attitude toward change. Saropatra values calm, moderation, peace, and neutrality.
Early agricultural Kirav. Shifting cultivation of potato and other such crops. Small, autarkic village communities.


Ocean spirituality has more in common with shamanistic and oracular traditions, whereas Moon spirituality has more in common with monastic, ascetic, and mystical traditions. Ocean-fearers paid great attention to doomsayers, hysterics, and persons plagued by nightmares.
The Emperor shows up.


The question of "How does this relate to the endemic and ritualistic interband violence that characterised pre-Emperor Kirav?" is mentioned as question to be explored in a companion volume. The companion volume in question was never published and is presumed {{wp|lost work|lost}}.
The idea of lives (Coscivian lives, at least) having intrinsic value (rather than having value only in relation to kith and kin) coalesces during this era. Well-defined notions of law, honour, respect, property, and other such concepts also take root. Social control is still exclusively shame-based and moral-legal systems are still exclusively about maintaining social peace and mitigating inter-group conflict.


==Reception and Evaluation==
==Reception and Evaluation==
Occidental scholars regard the claims made in the book as "intriguing but unfalsifiable".
''Moral Evolution of Coscivian Spiritual Civilisation'' is notable for being the first significant dark philological work written in Kiravic rather than in High Coscivian, and indeed the only such work until the 21st century AD.


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