1. Archeozoic (prelife era)
1 billion to 550 million years ago
59:0.2(672;2),
78:7.4(875;1)
2. Proterozoic (life-dawn era)
3. Paleozoic (marine-life era)
Cambrian (trilobite age)
400 to 350 million years ago
59:1sec(673;1)
Ordovician (invertebrate-animal age)
350 to 300 million years ago
59:2sec(674;7)
Silurian (coral and brachiopod age)
300 to 275 million years ago
59:3sec(676;5)
Devonian (age of plant life, fishes)
270 to 220 million years ago
59:4sec(678;2)
Carboniferous (age of fern forests, frogs)
220 to 180 million years ago
59:5sec(680;3)
Permian (seed-plant age; biologic tribulation)
170 to 150 million years ago
59:6sec(682;7)
4. Mesozoic (early land-life era)
Triassic (early-reptilian age)
150 to 125 million years ago
60:1sec(685;3)
Jurassic (later-reptilian age)
125 to 100 million years ago
60:2sec(687;2)
Cretaceous (age of flowering plants, birds)
5. Cenozoic (mammalian era)
50 million years ago to the present
61:0sec(693;1)
Eocene (early-mammal age)
50 to 35 million years ago
61:1sec(693;4)
Oligocene (advanced mammal age)
35 to 25 million years ago
61:2sec(694;7)
Miocene (age of elephant and horse)
25 to 10 million years ago
61:3.15(698;2)
Pliocene (mammalian migration stage)
10 to 1 million years ago
61:4sec(698;3)
Pleistocene (ice age)
Holocene (post-glacial period)
35,000 years ago to the present
61:7.18(702;8)
cults were insurance against hazards of bad luck
87:0.1(958;1)
early peoples associated g. with the sea
84:1.4(932;1)
fear of ghosts
disciplined and controlled primitives
68:3.3(766;4)
prepared men's minds for "fear of the Lord"
68:3.3(766;4)
produced dread of being alone
84:7.17(940;13)
savages lived in fear of g.
87:3.3(960;7)
senseless superstition
68:3.3(766;4)
illusory
g. environment of primitive man
86:6sec(955;6)
Moses sought to uproot ghost cults
92:5.8(1009;5)
most primitive idea of human souls
86:4.3(953;2)
nature and activities of ghosts
administered justice through medicine men
70:10.5(795;2)
angered
g. caused misfortune, unhappiness
87:2.2(959;3)
caused disease by enticing soul out of body
90:3.4(989;6)
credited with supernatural powers, but not supernatural intelligence
87:1.2-5(958;4)
enjoyed unlimited rights but no duties
87:5.1(962;2)
expected at least one slave wife be buried alive with
87:2.7(960;1)
explained the unusual and the inexplicable
86:4.4(953;3)
frightened by noise
87:6.4(964;3)
levied continuous tribute for noninterference
87:5.1(962;2)
preferred to indwell objects they owned when alive
88:2.1(968;6)
punished those who disdained their rules
68:4.3(767;3)
took pleasure in discomfort of living
87:2.4(959;5),
89:0.2(974;2)
placation long preceded coercion and supplication
87:2.1(959;2)
rites designed to avoid, expel, or coerce
87:0.1(958;1)
savage believed
g. to be breath minus body
86:4.4(953;3)
shamans howled away
g. responsible for disease
90:4.3(991;2)
spirits of departed humans do not return or communicate
112:3.7(1230;5),
146:7.2(1646;3),
150:3.5(1680;7)
superghost doctrine not yet wholly rejected
87:5.8(963;3)
superstition of
g. dream still persists
68:3.3(766;4)
supposed human origin of
g. gods
85:6.4(948;4)