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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: the popular cue (largely, it must be said, among "armchair"
travelers and explorers) to represent the religious
rites and customs of primitive folk as a senseless mass
of superstitions, and the early man as quite devoid of
decent feeling and intelligence. Again, when the study of
religious origins first began in modern times to be seriously
taken up--say in the earlier part of last century--
there was a great boom in Sungods. Every divinity in
the Pantheon was an impersonation of the Sun--unless
indeed (if feminine) of the Moon. Apollo was a sungod,
of course; Hercules was a sungod; Samson was a sungod;
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