This led, in the words of archaeologist Graeme Barker, to “a very different kind of spirituality characterized by a separation from and distrust of nature,” which generated “the anxiety over cosmic disorder that seems to lie at the core of all the agrarian religions.” No longer was nature a generous, giving parent; instead, it was increasingly something to “control and appropriate rather than be part of.”24
The cosmos felt different afterwards.theme of control became central
