Anthropologists believe that human thoughts, religion and social management systems are the foundation of the three major civilized societies of society. Because we study human thoughts, religion and social management methods before and during the Great Migration, we can better understand Grasp the status of human civilization and development before and after the Great Migration.
However, since we lack ready-made documents and information, to study these issues, we can only analyze and infer these issues based on the archaeological results and research results currently obtained. For example, early humans such as Australian Aboriginals, American Indians, and Pacific Island Aboriginals were separated from the main body of humanity after the glaciers thawed and sea levels rose during the last glacial period. These humans were able to inherit and retain the human Great Migration relatively completely. Therefore, by studying the traditional culture of these peoples, we can get answers that are very close to the truth.
The migration process of human beings is a planned, prepared, steady and step-by-step process. Human beings always migrate to the next destination after they successfully immigrate to an area. Therefore, humans have established a great migration route. There are many settlements, villages, cities, societies and countries. Many of these villages, cities and countries are still preserved today, and some have perished. However, they have left behind a large number of historical relics. Therefore, we study these human civilization achievements and historical relics. This way we can have a true, detailed and systematic grasp of the status and development trends of human thought, religion and social control before and after the Great Migration.
About 4.5 years ago, the warming period of the last glacial period began. Due to the melting of glaciers, geological changes and sea level rise, coastal areas and low-altitude areas were submerged by sea water during the last glacial period, resulting in the interruption of the land bridge between Australia and the New World in Southeast Asia. Therefore, Australia Aboriginal people began to separate from the human subject. Based on the research results of archaeologists and anthropologists on the traditional culture of Australian indigenous people, as well as archaeological discoveries in Australia, anthropologists and sociologists infer that Australian indigenous people already have religious ideas, customs, rituals and lifestyles similar to shamanism.
The religious thoughts of Australian Aboriginal people believe that all things have animism, and spirits exist in a non-material way. Spirits have immortal nature, and spirits have good and evil natures. The results of the actions of spirits can also be divided into good and evil. Good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be evil. Retribution; the all-knowing and omnipotent spirit is God, the ignorant and incompetent, half-knowledge and half-powerful spirit is the soul, and God is the master of the soul. The world is divided into three levels: heaven, earth and underworld. Gods live in the upper level, which is heaven. People and all things live in the middle level, which is the human world. After people die and all things disappear, their souls enter the underworld, where they receive offerings from gods and gods. Instructions, practice, judgment, ascension to heaven, reincarnation, or hell. This world view, values and outlook on life are the core ideas of shamanism. Therefore, it can be inferred that Australian Aboriginal people believe in shamanism sama
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Anthropologists believe that during the last glacial period, human subjects lived on the New World of the Last Glacial Age (referred to as the New World of Southeast Asia during the Ice Age) consisting of islands such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, as well as the South China Sea, southern China, and the Indochina Peninsula. Human beings created the earliest human civilization in the New World of Southeast Asia. The fruits of these civilizations are the earliest human thoughts, religions, languages, writings and arts, as well as the knowledge system and scientific and technological system that restrict human development.
After the warming period of the last ice age, many areas of the New World of Southeast Asia were submerged by sea water. Therefore, most humans in the New World of Southeast Asia moved to southern China and the Indochina Peninsula to settle and reorganize their societies. Therefore, this region was able to inherit and develop very completely and systematically. The earliest human civilization. Thailand is one of the oldest countries in Indochina, and the Thai nation is also the oldest nation in Southeast Asia. Therefore, by studying Thai culture and Thai language, we can obtain rich and systematic information on early human civilization.
According to the research results of linguists, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese Dai Nong, Chinese Dai, and Chinese Zhuang belong to the same very closely related language family. This language family is called the ancient Thai language family. Ancient Thai is the language of Southeast Asian humans. It was the unified language of the earliest farming peoples and settled residents. With the great migration of farming peoples to all parts of the world, Ancient Thai also spread to all parts of the world, forming the Ancient Thai language family with a wider scope and more complex branches. After hundreds of years of research, linguists believe that various languages in Eurasia are more or less deeply influenced by ancient Thai, such as Sino-Tibetan, Tungusic, Altaic, Indo-European, Arabic, and American languages. Indian languages, etc. Therefore, if we study the connotation and development relationship of the ancient Thai language family, we can master more information about ancient human civilization.
Linguistic research results reflect that as the great migration of farming peoples in Southeast Asia began, Ancient Thai differentiated for the first time, and differentiated into Thai, Chinese Dai language, and Chinese Ancient Yue (the Zhuang language in southwest China), which systematically and comprehensively inherited Ancient Yue. Therefore, when we study Zhuang language, we can have a good grasp of the earliest ancient Thai language families such as Ancient Yue (Guyue).
In order to study and explain the aspects of the ancient Thai language family, below we list the ancient Thai vocabulary and cultural concepts that may come from Zhuang, Thai, Dai and other ancient Thai language families. At the same time, we will mark these vocabulary and cultural concepts in Chinese pinyin. And they all call their origins ancient Thai or ancient Yue.
Now, let us first use ancient Thai or ancient Vietnamese to explain the earliest religion of mankind-shamanism. In ancient languages such as Ancient Thai, Ancient Vietnamese, Indo-European, Altaic, and Tungusic languages, sa means 'knowledge, wisdom', ma
It means 'person, someone', so a shaman is a wise man, as well as a wizard, a diviner and a priest. The shaman has the ability to communicate with the gods and speak for the gods. When ancient people who believed in shamanism encountered difficulties, confusion, troubles, difficulties, diseases and disasters, they must consult the shaman about God's will and ways to solve problems. Oracles are true knowledge and truth, so they must firmly believe in oracles. I firmly believe that disaster will be turned into good fortune; the solution is to know that the shaman has used a set of basic methods to solve the problem based on the possible consequences of the development of things, that is, lottery strategies, and randomly obtains one of the lottery strategies through some kind of divination method, and the shaman gives a solution based on the lottery strategies. Consultants provide solutions to problems. If religious rituals are encountered during the method, the shaman team will go into battle to perform rituals for the inquirer.
In areas such as Southeast Asia and India, shaman sama
Be called a Samana Shame
, sa and sha have the same pronunciation, they both mean knowledge, wisdom, magician, etc., ma
with me
Similar sound, but different meaning, ma
An ordinary person, me in ancient Thai
It means "heaven, god", so Shame
It means "God's Wisdom", and the way of calling Samana is more mysterious and religious. Both Jainism and Buddhism admit that they have inherited the basic ideas and teachings of Shamanism. Therefore, many cultural concepts of Buddhism can also be explained in ancient Thai. For example, Bodhisattva pusa and pu are prefixes that refer to certain types of people in ancient Thai. For Chinese words such as "class" and "part", ancient Thai uses attributive postposition in grammar, so Bodhisattva pusa means "teacher, mage". Before the emergence of Buddhism, the responsibilities of Bodhisattva already existed. In Shamanism, The Bodhisattva is specially responsible for receiving religious consultation from believers, dispelling disasters and doubts for believers, predicting good or bad luck and the future, and presiding over various religious rituals for believers. After developing into the Buddhist stage, the Bodhisattva's duty evolved into "saving all living beings". The specific content of the Bodhisattva's duty has changed, but the essence has not changed. The Bodhisattva's duty is still to help believers.
Archaeologists and anthropologists believe that Australian aborigines attach great importance to burial. They bury their deceased relatives and clan leaders. Before burial, the deceased would be curled up like a fetus in the mother's womb, and then wrapped in mats or animal skins. When placing the deceased in the tomb, let the deceased face the tribal totem, east or west, and bury the deceased with the supplies and ornaments he used for his livelihood, life and favorites during his lifetime. This is a typical practice of primitive shamanism in burying the dead. According to shamanism, the grave is the incubator and residence of the dead in the afterlife. In the afterlife, the deceased will live as a soul in the same way as in this life. Therefore, the deceased must be buried with food, daily necessities, livelihood tools, etc. And having the deceased face the tribal totem means that the soul of the deceased can find the way home; facing the east means allowing the soul of the deceased to be reincarnated as soon as possible. The ancients believed that the place where the sun rises is where life is born; facing the west means It means entering the Western Paradise of eternal soul as soon as possible. The ancients believed that the place where the sun sets is the place where all things and souls can find eternal rest and happiness.
After the burial, in order to ensure that the deceased will still be useful in the next life, living relatives will regularly visit the grave of the deceased to worship and offer incense, wine, food and other sacrifices to the deceased.
In the past century or two, archaeologists have discovered this burial method of ancient people in Southeast Asia, mainland China, Siberia, the Middle East, Egypt, Europe, America and other regions. The great migration of mankind has brought primitive shamanism and other ideas and cultures with it. It has spread to all parts of the world and made shamanism the mainstream religious belief in these areas.
Aboriginal Australians also have customs such as tattoos and adult circumcision. These customs also exist among ancient peoples in Southeast Asia, mainland China, Siberia, the Middle East, Egypt, Europe, America and other regions. This cultural phenomenon shows that human beings have tattoos, adult circumcision and other customs. The custom was formed 45,000 years ago. According to the research results of anthropologists, because the ancients often only knew their mothers and not other relatives and clans, and when the ancients became adults at the age of 7 to 8, they had to leave their mothers to find food on their own. In order for everyone to find each other in the future, the ancients invented tattoos. , the early contents of tattoos include clan marks, maternal family marks, personal name marks, etc.
Circumcision may have originated from "birth control surgery" to control the rapid growth of the population. Eunuchs were a very common phenomenon in ancient societies. The current transsexuals around the world are the remnants of ancient eunuchs. In the era of gathering and hunting, the ancients often suffered from hunger. When encountering natural disasters, it was common for people to starve to death. In this case, an increase in population was a terrible disaster for the ethnic group. Therefore, the earliest Smart social managers used shamanism to circumcise the genitals of adult men and women.
These cultural phenomena show that 45,000 years ago, early humans already had the means to manage interpersonal relationships and tribal relations, and had measures to manage the effective and safe operation of the entire tribe and society.
Shamanism is commonly found among ancient peoples living in Eurasia, Africa, and North and South America. This cultural phenomenon shows that before the great migration of mankind, 45,000 years ago, shamanism was a religion shared by all mankind. Today Any form of religion evolved and improved on the basis of shamanism. At present, the core ideas of shamanism are still retained in human thoughts, culture, and customs around the world. Chinese people use sacrifices, ask gods, divination, resolve good and bad luck, and practice methods to eliminate disasters. Shinto rituals and customs all have a shadow of shamanism. Folks in Southeast Asia, India, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe also retain strong shamanistic customs and beliefs.
Primitive religious thought comes from the ancients’ essential understanding of life and death, gain and loss, beauty and ugliness, good and evil, interests and life and death. It is the spiritual power of human beings to become self-reliant, strive for strength, transform the world, and create beauty. If a nation cannot see through life, it will transcend the world. The national elite who have beautiful dreams, the courage to despise all external forces and difficulties and obstacles, and the courage to regard death as home, the superb fighting skills and wisdom, the perseverance and perseverance to fight to the end, this nation will be a nation that will survive the natural selection, They were ruthlessly eliminated in a primitive society with brutal competition. Correct and beautiful thoughts can help mankind overcome natural disasters and cruel competition, and forge an excellent nation of mankind.
Migration is different from fleeing. Migration is a leisurely and premeditated relocation of human beings. It is also a very systematic and complex adventure. In order to migrate successfully, the ancients must have sufficient knowledge of geography and climate, and be able to formulate careful and feasible action plans, which include formulating action routes and relocation plans, conducting on-site inspections of the migration destination in advance, and believing that the destination can arrange family arrangements After living and producing with the tribe, small groups of troops are dispatched to develop at the destination. After their life and production at the destination are fully successful, the entire family and tribe will gradually relocate to the destination.
Archaeologists have discovered a secondary burial tomb of an ancient Indian in North America, which is 27,000 years old. This discovery shows that 27,000 years ago, the warming of the earth intensified, and many areas of the earth became very humid and sultry. The climate will cause the bones to decay. In order to prevent the bones of their ancestors from rotting, people who believe in shamanism pick up the bones of their ancestors 3 to 5 years after they are buried, put them into a burial urn according to the person's sitting posture, and then bury them separately. This is the second burial.
At present, secondary burials are still popular in Southeast Asia, southwest China and other regions. According to the research results of archaeologists, relics of secondary burials of ancient people have been found in the American continent, mainland China, Siberia, the Middle East and Europe. This cultural phenomenon shows that around 25,000 years ago, due to the intensification of global warming, sea levels rose significantly, resulting in large numbers of people living in Southeast Asia, southwest China and other regions migrating to all parts of the world.
Research by paleoclimatologists believes that after 15,000 years ago, the earth's warming rate slowed down. At this time, the Bering Strait land bridge connecting Eurasia and the American continent was completely submerged by sea water, and human migration activities also slowed down. . By 11,000 years ago, the warming of the earth had completely stopped and the earth's climate began to stabilize. Therefore, the current great migration of mankind basically ended here.
Starting 45,000 years ago, the gathering peoples, hunting peoples, farming peoples, nomadic peoples and maritime peoples located in Southeast Asia and southern China have all basically migrated very slowly to all parts of the world in this step-by-step, steady-steady way. . It took them 30,000 years to complete this great migration. The Great Migration created a splendid Chinese civilization for mankind in the Pearl River Basin, Yangtze River Basin, Yellow River Basin, Liaohe River Basin, Heilongjiang River Basin and other areas in mainland China; due to the main body of human beings in Southeast Asia Migrating to the South Asian subcontinent, the yellow race merged with the red race and white race, thus giving birth to the rich and colorful Indian civilization; after the migratory humans settled in the Mesopotamia region of the Middle East, the humans who developed in Central Asia and the Middle East Created Sumerian civilization and Babylonian civilization; then new humans from Central Asia and the Middle East migrated to the Mediterranean region. They settled in the Nile River Basin in northern Africa and created Western civilizations such as ancient Egyptian civilization, ancient Greek civilization, and ancient Roman civilization. .
According to the research results of archaeologists and anthropologists, the above-mentioned cultural phenomena and civilizational achievements that have appeared in various parts of the world were all originated from the Asian yellow farming and maritime peoples who originally settled in Southeast Asia, southern China and other regions. It was spread and created during the Great Migration around the world between 45,000 and 15,000 years ago.
According to research by archaeologists and anthropologists, during the migration process, humans have mastered the knowledge of astronomy and calendars, mastered the climate laws of the earth, and mastered the basics of keeping time, diary, month, year, and dividing seasons. method. These knowledge and methods laid the foundation for the later formation of world-famous astronomical calendars such as Chinese astronomical laws, ancient Egyptian astronomical calendars, and Mayan astronomical calendars;
At the same time, humans during the Great Migration have mastered the knowledge and means of geography in terms of east-west, north-south orientation and positioning, and have been able to draw quite accurate maps. The ancient Chinese book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a geographical chronicle, and this book accurately describes The geographical conditions of the world in which humans lived during the Ice Age may be that the place described in this book was in the Southeast Asian continent during the Ice Age, where many places are now submerged by sea water, so people today cannot find the corresponding area in this book;
They developed a systematic and precise language and writing system. They were able to communicate various information through language and accurately convey various information, ideas, practices and orders through documents. Therefore, they ensured the connection between the migratory ethnic group and the group in the homeland, as well as within the migratory ethnic group. communication, coordination and management;
They mastered the most advanced fire-using technology, kiln technology, food cooking technology, pottery making technology, metal smelting technology, as well as manufacturing and building tools, weapons, ships, vehicles, daily necessities, roads, bridges, housing, villages, defense A full range of craft techniques for fortifications, castles and cities;
They have mastered the medical knowledge of using salt water, alkali water of plant ash, and herbal decoctions to treat skin diseases, clean wounds and skin, and use herbal and mineral medicines to treat colds, fevers, malaria, dysentery, plague, trauma, and fractures. and technology to ensure the health and safety of migrating people’s lives;
They have mastered a complete set of navigation and fishing technologies, a complete set of agricultural technologies, and a complete set of animal husbandry technologies. These production technologies have laid a solid material foundation for human prosperity.
According to our research results, the farming peoples who migrated from Southeast Asia and southwest China to all over the world all have the following standard production and living conditions and cultural characteristics: The early farming peoples around the world were all yellow people, and their early mother tongues were all ancient Thai. Or ancient Vietnamese; early farming people liked to live next to rivers and lakes, like to bathe and clean daily necessities; master the technology of using fire, always keep flints or fire sickles, like to drink hot water and cook food; master the use of medicines and herbal medicines Methods, able to treat common diseases and epidemics; master the techniques of making koji and wine, make and drink various brewed wines such as rice wine, sweet wine and beer; master the pottery making technology, make and use various pottery; master the smelting technology, Use gold, copper and other metal tools; master carpentry and masonry skills, and be able to build houses with pure wood structures and wood, stone and earth structures; raise pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and other edible livestock and poultry in a family unit, and raise buffalo, cattle, etc. Animal power improved farmland and transportation, and ox-carts became the most common means of transportation among early farming peoples; farming peoples in the south planted rice, vegetables, and fruit trees, and those in the north planted barley, corn, wheat, vegetables, and fruit trees. At the same time, our research has found that non-agricultural ethnic groups do not have the above-mentioned cultural characteristics and production and living skills. Many of these ethnic groups do not know how to use fire. They like to drink cold water and eat raw meat. They have no concept of hygiene and do not like to take baths and change clothes. When they are sick, they only I can find a witch doctor to cast spells, but I can't use medicines and herbs to treat diseases.
Therefore, early farming peoples all over the world are representatives of the highest local human civilization. They are very conspicuous and easy to identify.
