Given that Eliade previously pointed out how often ancient religions, just like their modern counterparts, were reinterpreted and altered over time, it seems odd that he would look to 19th century megalithic cultures and their religious practices as a means to interpret religious structures built some 6,000 years earlier. I think this may betray the unconscious assumption that “primitive” people have been frozen in time. Eliade seems willing to overcome this bias when comparing ancient civilizations to one another, but he carries it with him in reference to modern people whose culture differs from European Christianity.
