/lit/ - Literature

Religion

Religion, and then people started calling it poetry, and then it evolved.

The earliest religious texts are poetry.

>>2600998

I've read a few different places that it's likely religion came before language, even.

>>2601001

id like to read something like that

There's some quote about poetry or painting that they are nothing but lies telling the truth or something like that. Maybe someone knows the quote?

My point might be that the question should be what was first, the written word or religion? Or is poetry and religion the same thing?

You'll have to excuse me, I'm insane.

>>2601001
Fat little mother earth statues?

Well, there's a small part of our brain that deals with the feeling of "spiritual/transcendent presence", and from what I've read, it is supposed to give the leader of the group (or your father) intro a certain god-like status.

And I wouldn't be shocked if religion came before the written language. This religion would of course be long dead and gone by now.

People buried the dead for spiritual reasons looooong before writing was invented.

>>2601880
>Equating the origins of poetry with that of 'writing'

my mom borrowed my time machine to watch an Elvis concert

when she get back I'll see if I can answer OP's question

>>2601963
Either way, for people to have even spoken poetry must have had some kind of prose that did not come until intensive agriculture allowed them to speak pretty. Foragers wouldn't have time to do any of that. Religion, however, is as part of humanity as is violence.