But arguably one of the most significant consequences of our compulsion to humanize the divine is what seems to have occurred as a direct result of the building of Göbekli Tepe: the birth of agriculture. For it is the conceptualization of personal gods in human form, and the institutionalized myths and rituals that accompany such a process, that will push us out of the Paleolithic era, that will compel us to stop wandering and to settle down, that will give us the impetus to alter the earth to our advantage by inventing agriculture. Simply put, in transforming the gods of heaven into humans,
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