Mental
When Geography Becomes God
Hughes reveals something startling: our ancestors didn't just happen to worship on mountaintops. The landscape literally shaped their cosmology. When you stand where they stood, feel the wind they felt, see the storms they saw, their beliefs suddenly make bodily sense.
The full breakdown — the context, the shift, and a question to sit with — opens in the Insights app.
The thinker
Ancient world storyteller
Bettany Hughes is a historian and broadcaster who brings ancient civilizations to life through immersive storytelling that connects past and present.
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