Comments on: Mot and Baal https://www.isegoria.net/2015/04/mot-and-baal/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2015/04/mot-and-baal/comment-page-1/#comment-2234138 Bob Sykes Sat, 04 Apr 2015 11:17:56 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37748#comment-2234138 This myth may go back some 30,000 to 40,000 years to the Paleolithic Ice Age hunters in Eurasia. See, E. J. M. Witzel, “The Origins of the World’s Mythologies,” (Oxford, 2012), p. 394 and other places. Osiris is a type, but he is Neolithic.

Witzel’s broader point is that behind our modern religions there is an ancient Ice Age mythology that spans the entire Eurasian and American land masses. A related but simpler mythology spans Africa, New Guinea, Australia and related cultures. Again, the Out of Africa split.

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