Myth, death and consciousness.

Possibly the most important step of humanity as we know it was fortuitous. It must have happened for tens of thousands of years and consisted of something that seems as simple as understanding the own extinction and, therefore, the fact of existing.There was a time in human history that someone (not necessarily had to be a single individual, could be a phenomenon of simultaneity) to the death of a near one's senses, and therefore the existence of death in general. This confronts us even today to something abstract and incomprehensible by his own irreversible, affecting everything that is likely to have life and that affects us for our lack of experience on the "nothing". The impact of this discovery must produce in Him who first turned heads unless the vertigo of transformed their thinking and gradually those who surrounded him and followed him. Where to place the identity of those who had found themselves putting self instead of hitherto prevailing You, from the antithesis of absence against the very existence?The resulting fear stop being, for who only knows that there is an experience that accompanies the individual from the time aware until his death. Something similar has to happen because the human species and is an element that until proven otherwise, differentiates us from other species.The self-consciousness remains a dialectical relationship with death whose concept can not be addressed from the experience; This leads to a desperate attempt to justify life as an expansion of germ vitality beyond the limit we know others . Transcendence.The relationship with the other becomes valuable, emotional in a human sense, others are a reflection of oneself as being ephemeral, others are mirror image of oneself and others depend on one's life and death, to acquire, a metaphysical sense.The culture had previously been rudimentary, since their aim was collective survival in the material, but from that moment takes on a different value. The culture has to search for individuals survival beyond death itself, acquires transcendental values ​​and human. Until then, the man had spoken with nature as something that is outside, painted images of bison as those who wish to hunt animals. After hunting humans appear self-discovery. It also welcomes the man funeral rites, honoring the graves of their fellow-trimmed or manufactured.Is no stranger to the discovery of the death and the development of a culture of a spiritual nature, the emergence of the myth. The myth is a first sketch of what the world will be after rational is a first attempt to explain that which is unavailable to the experience.A man looks at the sun, I see every day practically since birth and already known to have died as viewed from birth, known to be a source of warmth and food. Men die and the sun is always there, like the other stars, mountains and rivers, deserts and sea. Somehow these phenomena are far superior to yours. They do not die, then necessarily be gods. Man has created a new concept of life exist in addition, there is also the divinity that transcends life itself is transcendent.Now there is something that can explain the very existence, and while bridging the gap involving conceptual unless: immortality as something that can be seen every day, then why not own immortality albeit in another form, less radiant than the stars, but much more important to men as it is the continuation of the substance itself?The whole process would not occur in the overnight, may take a few millennia opt, but without that leap to consciousness would not be, for better or worse what we are.

@Pacoespada1