Sublime

The animal sacrifices were to be performed to the traditional gods, but they were performed on behalf of or for the protection of the living emperor and his family; the emperor, in other words, was still under the protection of the Olympian gods rather than being their equal.

The evidence available to us now, however, suggests the revival and modern Druids are right about their ancient forebears, whether we consider the proto-Celts (and hence the proto-Druids) to have emerged in Britain in around 2000 BC, as Beaker folk, or even earlier as Indo-Europeans, as Colin Renfrew argues.

The same religion required that the hearth should be fixed to the soil, that the tomb should neither be destroyed nor displaced. Suppress the right of property, and the sacred fire would be without a fixed place, the families would become confounded, and the dead would be abandoned and without worship. By the stationary hearth and the permanent

skeleton at a depth of 3 meters (almost 10 feet). Its bones lay in a natural environment, embedded in a characteristic sedimentary rock made of clay and limestone. In the same layer, bones from a rhinoceros and marine clams also appeared. The layers clearly belonged to the Middle Pliocene—over 4 million years in the past. The skeleton found

a return to the Paleolithic mind, which was global, ecosensitive, and multidimensional.