Ray Mears goes Walkabout

Watching Ray on TV this morning on Australia's Prince of Wales Islands in the Torres Straits; and the aborigines devout reverence of their ancestors in everything they did and do especially offering food to ancestors prior to feeding; makes me surmise that feeding is a far older, taken for granted human being unifying aspect than globalization, the fact that africans minus their assumed religions, christians and most peoples around the world pray or perform some form of ritual prior to feeding may sound like clutching at straws, but think about it for a moment.... and realise that feeding together with defeacation and copulation are the three main acts that humans (and animals of course) still partake in since God knows when.

Think about it; the ancient act of feeding and the sacrifices (prayer being a function of sacrifice) that we offer before we feed.....Hmmmh, might have stumbled onto something sacrosanct here.

Perhaps it does make sense then that those who simply gouge into their food without performing an ancestral ritual are 'uncivilized' in that they break with the norm that we have brought along from our forefathers, our ancestors.