[quote Nonton]@MyCreateIsUsernamed have you watched the show?
They suggest lots of theories. One of the disturbing ones is about blood sacrifices coming from a worshipping of ancient alien ritual.
Others suggest the aliens built stuff for their own purposes, such as creating flight paths and alignment with the stars etc.
It is interesting.
@CheddarGorge yes I’m going to get into the debunking material next for some balance. Everything on this show is “ancient alien theorists say it was aliens”.
I’ve always thought divinity was a strange idea that came to humans. What did our ancestors experience to hold such beliefs? The show makes some interesting observations.[/quote]
When you look at divinity prior to the Abrahamics, it's fundamentally natural phenomenon that has been anthropomorphised, along with abstract human traits.
We don't entirely click with this in English because of the language differences though. When you read about Uranus and Gaia, you don't automatically think "Sky" and "Earth", for example.
It's clear that a lot of very old "divinity" is a way to explain concepts through allegory or metaphor.
All that said, to answer a point further up the thread, it was only after the Renaissance that most people generally stopped believing that the remnants of ancient Greek and Roman civilisation were not products of the paranormal/supernatural world.
Prior to that, it was extremely common for many ordinary medieval people in Western Europe to believe that Roman structures had been built by the fairies. Indeed, when you examine English fairy mythology, it quite clearly maps onto what we understand of the nature and achievements of the Roman occupation of Britain: fairy roads are old Roman roads, fairy palaces are old Roman villas with mosaic floors etc, fairy soldiers with their superior weapons and strange ways of fighting, even things like the multitude of hybrids that litter fairy culture (men with the heads of animals etc) - - they are half-remembered remnants of Roman pagan culture and mythology.