What is the oldest text you know of concerning faith?
2007-11-18 12:18:30 · 9 answers · asked by trackman 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Pyramid Texts of Egypt.
2007-11-18 12:27:53 · answer #1 · answered by kriosalysia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you think of as an "Earth Religion" and, to a large extent, what you would define as a "text."
The Epic of Gilgamesh, Hindu Rig Vedas, and Egyptian Book of the Dead are all ancient---perhaps 3-5K years old, I would think.
But the petroglyphic evidence, grave goods, and ritual objects associated with what eventually became Northern European heathenry---the indigenous folkways of the Germanic tribes---date to 25K BCE.
2007-11-18 20:24:54 · answer #2 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Probably the early Vedic texts of Pre-Hinduism, but I'm not positive there isn't something older.
2007-11-18 20:22:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Vedas, until someone discovers "Thog's Guide to Making Money and Impressing Women By Pretending That Gods Exist And You Speak For Them".
2007-11-18 20:21:52 · answer #4 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth are supposed to be over 30,000 years old. I don't know it that's true but that seems to be the concensus.
2007-11-18 20:26:26 · answer #5 · answered by Shane K 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Emerald tablets
2007-11-18 20:23:38 · answer #6 · answered by Laff -Hugs 4all- 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Poetic Eddas (At least in my faith. I don't know over all)
2007-11-18 20:23:55 · answer #7 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The Laws of Moses is the most important one.
2007-11-18 20:22:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
The one written in my heart...
2007-11-18 20:27:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋