16th April 2008, 04:43 PM
What i was suggesting is that the religion itself has its origins way before the neolithic. We know that people of the late palaeolithic had some form of religion in western europe which would have carried on into the mesolithic,and before we got cut off with the rise of the sea level these people would have roamed across britain and western europe and could have had broadly the same form of worship with maybe some slight difference in names only.
But with the coming of farming west through europe and then into britain the idea of temple building could have been introduced into what was an existing religion.After all there isn't much difference between worshipping in a stone circle and a sacred grove of trees such as is mentioned by Tacitus for the ancient german tribes.
But with the coming of farming west through europe and then into britain the idea of temple building could have been introduced into what was an existing religion.After all there isn't much difference between worshipping in a stone circle and a sacred grove of trees such as is mentioned by Tacitus for the ancient german tribes.