{"id":2140,"date":"2011-05-18T10:09:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2011-05-18T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:09:28","slug":"forest-peopledesert-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2140","title":{"rendered":"Forest People\/Desert People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;ve read a similar article in Discover Magazine but nothing that broke the original down,\u00a0 both supporting it and refuting it, better than this one!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But I&#8217;m particularly fond of the way the different religions arose within a Patrism and Matrism society.\u00a0 Simplistically.. a forest people (more rain forest than northern forest) who live in plenty tend to develop a Matrism, poly-theistic society believing that the Gods have much better things to do than keep such a close eye on people, &amp; they&#8217;re mostly female.\u00a0 And desert people who live in harsh conditions tend to develop a Patrism, single-theistic society where God watches everything &amp; punishes &amp; rewards accordingly, like a disapproving father.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you can get through the article it is fascinating.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwgb.edu\/dutchs\/PSEUDOSC\/ForestDesert.htm\">Forest People, Desert People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a similar article in Discover Magazine but nothing that broke the original down,\u00a0 both supporting it and refuting it, better than this one! But I&#8217;m particularly fond of the way the different religions arose within a Patrism and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2140\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twirling-my-skirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}