Irving Finkel
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It hurts.
It hurts a lot.
You might even bleed to death.
But it's not somebody else's hand.
And it's your hand and it's your existence and your life that's threatened.
You think people weren't conscious that they were an entity?
I don't believe it.
Well, eventually, yes.
Names.
Names.
Names of things.
And then you have the idea that a label fixes to something.
Then the light bulb has gone on, and next minute you have rhino, and you have skin, and you have babies.
Because I think you have an idea, and the idea then drives the brain, and the brain has another idea.
It works like fertility.
I think that the milieu in which it appears is when there's a lot of people living in an urban environment.
And with rival institutions or with a king or with a government or all those sorts of...
things.
And that's why I think Gobekli Tepe must have been the same thing.
I read somewhere that they're all nomads and they only came to Gobekli Tepe, you know, three months a year.