the only constant thing in this world is change :)
You know, three thousand years ago prayers used to be very tangible, they were made of rocks.
Several years ago in Rome, completely by accident, we found an ethnographic museum that had lots of little-known exhibits from the times before even the Roman republic. One of its rooms contained little human "body parts" ( feet, legs, hands, heads, hearts, etc.) crudely made out of stone. Those were "prayers" that ancient Romans would bring to sacred places, asking gods to cure them from diseases. People with headache brought heads, footache - feet, and etc. Later, after the holy sites became completely littered with such prayers, somebody came up with an idea to erect gods' statues instead, and pray with words - written, drawn, spoken. The meaning of prayers evolved too, but it's a much bigger subject that deserves a separate discussion.
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You know, three thousand years ago prayers used to be very tangible, they were made of rocks.
Several years ago in Rome, completely by accident, we found an ethnographic museum that had lots of little-known exhibits from the times before even the Roman republic. One of its rooms contained little human "body parts" ( feet, legs, hands, heads, hearts, etc.) crudely made out of stone. Those were "prayers" that ancient Romans would bring to sacred places, asking gods to cure them from diseases. People with headache brought heads, footache - feet, and etc. Later, after the holy sites became completely littered with such prayers, somebody came up with an idea to erect gods' statues instead, and pray with words - written, drawn, spoken. The meaning of prayers evolved too, but it's a much bigger subject that deserves a separate discussion.