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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. | 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. | ||
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 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}}. | ||
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. | 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. | ||