To reduce it to fear would be inaccurate – ancient Greece was an unstable place, were constant wars between the different city-states would happen.
To say they were irrational would also be inaccurate – in ancient Greece (as well as in other ancient cultures or, as we too hastily say “primitive cultures”) rules were meticulous, men were extremely rational in building their political systems, their trades, and their wars.
No – the answer lies elsewhere.
Serious men, with a real sense of responsibility and with all the components of those that seek power (determination, vision and creativity) believed in these rituals (and also in the famous oracles) because nature was perceived as one and one was divine.
The elements were perceived as having correspondences with the seasons; the seasons were intimately linked to deities and would reign the conduct of mortals.
Would things stop there? No.
Pre-socratic thinkers such as Heraclitus and Empedocles would constantly question and verse themselves in the concept of change.
What does this tell us? Those men felt the need to look at the world and seek teachings. In a way – what modern scientists do today.
But with this difference: knowledge was about perceiving continuity between ourselves and what lay outside of ourselves. Without this necessity of making it “useful” for a practical purpose. The aim was another – it was to attain wisdom.
Knowledge was thus not the dissection of reality but rather it’s profound understanding – in the form of intuition and not only rationality.
Let’s take the case of Empedocles, a fascinating Magus, that in the western tradition is considered to be the father of the “four roots” – he wouldn’t call “air”, “water”, “earth” and “fire” “elements” (that came later on with Plato).
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