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Maybe even more striking: a 2020 article describing THC /Cannabis residue on a Jewish temple altar that dates to the same time period as the above 2019 article. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03344355.2020.1...

This strengthens the argument for Cannabis use by Abrahamic priests. This has been asserted on the basis of textual evidence in the Old Testament (namely the qaneh bosem in the holy anointing oil and the smoke-filled tabernacle). On the basis of the text alone, it might seem far-fetched. But now we’ve got a smoking gun, so to speak. More scholarly discussion here: https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/studies-words/facts-about-kan...

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Brings new insight into the burning bush at Mt Sinai

look like cannabis and other drugs were common in our past [0] [1]

but what culture are they talking about in the article? were they Scythians?

https://www.science.org/content/article/did-ancient-mesopota...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogenic_use_of_cannabis#Mi...

Article says "Jirzankal cemetery" -- on the banks of the Tashkurgan river in what's now Xinjiang province. I don't think that would be a Scythian area, that's more Pontic steppe, west and north from there. This is on the other side of the mountains.

But could be Tocharian, which were Indo-European speakers, an extinct lost branch of the language family that split off very early and lived in this region. (Read up on the Tarim mummies).

Or any number of Turkic tribes. Hard to know?

Abrahamic Priest here. I can confirm the cannabis useage.

nice try - but from my reading, it appears that a large, driving reason for the evolution and adoption of Abrahamic Religion was that they specifically, exactly, discredited personal religious experience of all kinds, in favor of a collective, written canon. Social advancement in that crowd included better and more insightful reading of the reading, and writing of the writing, you might say.

Add to that explicit Father g*d, worship in a building not in nature, no female priests, and a few others.

I don't understand your point, or what you think is a "nice try". The parent comment you are responding to didn't make any argument as to the reason for the spread and adoption of Abrahamic religions.

I love the spiritual effects of cannabis. I think that’s the right word. It’s something like, “cannabis plus natural beauty equals profound feelings of cosmic meaning”

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