Pan’s Perfume
By Michael Pearce
Some of the old gods aren’t aging well. For uncountable millennia, archetypal nature gods roamed the paleolithic forests alongside bands of hunters and gatherers, their personalities evolving as the necessary response to the emergence of consciousness – the gods balanced the confusion caused when man first confronted the conundrum that life could only flourish at the expense of other life.
Human hunters gathered over the bloodied bodies of their prey, caught in the paradoxical spirit of powerful emotions. The killers wept in thanksgiving for the gift of abundance. The red and metal scent of fresh blood overwhelmed the clean and sparking air of rain-washed forest clearings. The killers wept with regret for the taking. The noses of their prey twitched and learned the dangerous smell of man and the killers wept in abased awe at the sublime power of nature, overcome by the inexplicable depth of the problem - man must kill to live. In the hunt the tribe found the primal source of faith. This was the source of these deep and bloody responses which were the basis of religious observance.
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Human hunters gathered over the bloodied bodies of their prey, caught in the paradoxical spirit of powerful emotions. The killers wept in thanksgiving for the gift of abundance. The red and metal scent of fresh blood overwhelmed the clean and sparking air of rain-washed forest clearings. The killers wept with regret for the taking. The noses of their prey twitched and learned the dangerous smell of man and the killers wept in abased awe at the sublime power of nature, overcome by the inexplicable depth of the problem - man must kill to live. In the hunt the tribe found the primal source of faith. This was the source of these deep and bloody responses which were the basis of religious observance.
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