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PUNISHMENT & SURVIVAL

Homo Naledi was NOT a species that buried their dead via a sacred spiritual ritual, but instead, they were probably the creators of the first and probably worse PRISON in all of history!

In a NETFLIX documentary Homo Naledi is proposed as being a deeply thoughtful species that buried their dead in an incredibly complex ritual that was wrought with danger.

This proposal has them carrying their dead through very narrow tunnels in complete darkness with only fire as a light, then traversing even more dangerous terrain, to finally make their way down a very narrow vertical chute into a pit, where they conducted a sacred ceremony to bury their dead.

Now, I actually LOVE this idea, but unfortunately it doesn't hold up to common sense.

In fact, I think they were absolutely right in determining Homo Naledi as a hominid with clearly advanced cognitive behaviors - in that they are RIGHT!

But not in the happy-go-lucky empathic manner they present them as.

CHOOSING DARKNESS OVER LIGHT

First off, there is no one that is going to bury their dead loved ones in a cave system that is that dangerous and hard to get to.

Furthermore, in the deep past, hominids probably died VERY often, so these excursions to this mystic cave wouldn't be done very often and would probably be done ONLY for VERY special circumstances.

These caves would NOT have been like holy sanctuaries in a church, but scary and dangerous places filled with poisonous spiders and centipedes, as well as many other creepy crawlies that abundantly live in cave systems.

In other words, this place would be the polar opposite of where you would WANT to bury your dead!

CONTROLING YOUR TROOP

So, why would any primate bring people to an isolated place cut off from the rest of society?

Well, we do this very thing today, in what we term PRISONS.

And of course, they are far easier and far more "spiritual" manners to dispose of your dead, Homo Naledi even had fire at their disposal, so even a funeral by fire makes MORE sense than traversing unfathomable dangers to pay your respects to you loved ones.

Ask yourself, if you wanted to honor your dead, would YOU drag them to an extreme length of cave and hoist them down a vertical chimney into a very disturbing dark and foreboding cave without light or escape?

Of course not, and neither would THEY!

IT'S ALL ABOUT PUNISHMENT, NOT REVERENCE

This activity is NOT reverence, but punishment!

But why then are there so many remains of them down there in one spot, beyond the vertical shaft in a closed off pit?

And why is there even a child down there, as well as what seems to be dug oval holes they were placed in?

All this is really easy to explain, when you realize just exactly what the Homo Naledi were doing and how the behavior of those brought down there is so sensible FOR THE CIRCUMSTANCE.

In plain terms, the Homo Naledi had found a deep cavernous pit, straight out of some primitive notion of hell, and had probably been trapped there once and were lucky to get back out.

Needless to say, this place would be a very frightening and foreboding place for the Homo Naledi, so much so, that at some point, they must have had the idea this was exactly the right place to PUNISH others in!

You see, all primates have one common problem when it comes to functioning in social groups - that is that many of the members of our groups far too often, do NOT obey the rules.

This occurs for many reasons, whether to establish a renegade dominance, or simply from adhering to criminal hurtful behavior, Jane Goodall wrote much about how this occurs in the chimps she studies, as well as many other primate species.

This criminal behavior no doubt would also have existed with the Homo Naledi.

It clearly does in US!

But why go through all the trouble of walking a criminal hominid to such an extent, even at the risk of dangers to those conducting this punishment?

The answer is simple - to make an EXAMPLE of them!

In fact, this is the very definition of forming some sort of rehabilitation of society through FEAR.

And EVEN TODAY, prisons do just that.

A DIRE NEED FOR FEAR AND COMMUNAL REHABILITATION

You see, it would be very easy to just kill or hurt a delinquent or criminal hominid, but this would NOT inspire the FEAR needed to put the rest of the group in their place.

And the importance of this was paramount to their survival.

What was needed was a punishment so frightening that others in the community would clearly abide by the established social rules, out of pure fear of being targeted for what they would see as the WORST punishment imaginable!

THE WALK OF SHAME

In fact, this is WHY this ritual was done in such a PUBLIC manner and mandated with such communal participation.

The idea of hominids carrying their dead for such grueling exchanges through darkness and lethal crevices makes no sense at all.

There were hundreds of other ways to do so, with even more sensibility and easier efforts. All which would have a much greater sense of spirituality and LIGHT.

There MUST have been a much more important reason to gather the community together to conduct an obviously frightening UNDERGROUND ritual as this.

What is far more sensible than the respectful burying of the dead in such a hellish place, is that LIVE members, NOT dead, were marched in a "walk of shame" into those caverns.

They were then accompanied by guards of sorts, to the vertical chute, where they were FORCED to climb down, if NOT, they were probably thrown down.

Once there, in the cold dark, they were prevented from climbing back up.

And in that cold darkness for hours upon hours, being scurried over by creeping insects in the dark, as well as being embraced by damp coldness, they did what anyone would - dig a shallow hole in the ground with whatever you had, in order to get yourself some measure of warmth and comfort.

And of course, if you dug a shallow hole to keep you warm, the shape would be OVAL, in the VERY shape you would have made for being in the fetal position to gain comfort and warmth.

The EXACT shape when campers get lost in the woods and do the same.

As more PRISONERS were brought into this hellhole, they would sense the dead bodies of their predecessors and cover them up, as not to stumble on their rotting or decomposed corpses, no doubt a behavior we, ourselves would do in such horrid circumstances.

As for the child found dead there with a rock tool in its hand - the situation STILL applies; meaning that maybe this was a child of a dissident, a delinquent hominid, or perhaps it was custom to imprison the child as an accomplice to the parent.

Or even PERHAPS that the child was a very bad kid, there is no telling if this child was part of something sinister, so it's just as bad to assume it was innocent as it was guilty of something terrible.

Be that as it may, today our children very often do very heinous things.

ESTABLSIHING A FORCE OF FEAR

So, what is the importance of having a frightening cave, becoming a prison for these hominids?

It's importance is IMMENSE!

What this practice would have done, is something far MORE communally vital, than a burial process.

What this would have done would establish a very effective deterrent to criminal behavior in a time when every single member of their troop was direly NEEDED!

By the way, if you think that punishment and chastisement is too advanced a behavior for simpler primates, just take a glance at the diaries of Diane Fossey or Jane Goodall, and you'll learn it's not!

Be that as it may, Homo Naledi was far more advanced than them, so their punishments would certainly be far more complex.

But this is about establishing a form of communal control to ensure the success of their troop and their species.

To put things in better perspective, marching a chronically misbehaving hominid to this cave prison would have been the equivalent to dragging a person to hell!

Not just that, but because their punishment was a public spectacle that involved members of the group, their credibility to vouge for these terrifying deeds would be all that was needed to scare straight, any other potential troublemakers.

And all this can be done without losing MORE valuable members of their troop.

This because the sheer legendary status of their prison cave and its dark demise for its prisoners, would become infused with a mythic status, much like the Boggie Man is to a child, but with far more believability.

So, in short, I propose what is obvious, the cave of the Homo Naledi was something far from a spiritual burial ground, but instead a very effective PRISON for those members of their community to be made examples of in a public ritual.

This is the only credible way to explain why they would go through such extremes to conduct their travels there, as well as how very important this practice would be in establishing the solidary of their community.

"SIZE MATTERS", BUT HOW YOU USE IT MATTERS MORE

As a last commentary here, it's not that I think the Homo Naledi were NOT spiritual, I get the notion that they were, and this backs up my idea, that these were some of the first to address morality and ethics, let alone the practice of punishment and communal adherence to appropriate behaviors.

These were very unique apes, ones that used their limited capacity of their smaller brains to an extent that may far outmatch those that have much larger ones.

And this should be taken seriously as a reminder that it is not the size of the brain that is important, but the manner to which it is being used which determines its intelligence.

REMARKS:

I am NOT an anthropologist, nor any man of science, I am an occultist. However, this is MY personal theory on Homo Naledi as an idea, spawning from an "average Joe" to which I feel bares some simplistic obviousness when the circumstance of this remarkable ape is considered.

-- Warlock Dark Riddle

Description
PUNISHMENT & SURVIVAL

Homo Naledi was NOT a species that buried their dead via a sacred spiritual ritual, but instead, they were probably the creators of the first and probably worse PRISON in all of history!

In a NETFLIX documentary Homo Naledi is proposed as being a deeply thoughtful species that buried their dead in an incredibly complex ritual that was wrought with danger.

This proposal has them carrying their dead through very narrow tunnels in complete darkness with only fire as a light, then traversing even more dangerous terrain, to finally make their way down a very narrow vertical chute into a pit, where they conducted a sacred ceremony to bury their dead.

Now, I actually LOVE this idea, but unfortunately it doesn't hold up to common sense.

In fact, I think they were absolutely right in determining Homo Naledi as a hominid with clearly advanced cognitive behaviors - in that they are RIGHT!

But not in the happy-go-lucky empathic manner they present them as.

CHOOSING DARKNESS OVER LIGHT

First off, there is no one that is going to bury their dead loved ones in a cave system that is that dangerous and hard to get to.

Furthermore, in the deep past, hominids probably died VERY often, so these excursions to this mystic cave wouldn't be done very often and would probably be done ONLY for VERY special circumstances.

These caves would NOT have been like holy sanctuaries in a church, but scary and dangerous places filled with poisonous spiders and centipedes, as well as many other creepy crawlies that abundantly live in cave systems.

In other words, this place would be the polar opposite of where you would WANT to bury your dead!

CONTROLING YOUR TROOP

So, why would any primate bring people to an isolated place cut off from the rest of society?

Well, we do this very thing today, in what we term PRISONS.

And of course, they are far easier and far more "spiritual" manners to dispose of your dead, Homo Naledi even had fire at their disposal, so even a funeral by fire makes MORE sense than traversing unfathomable dangers to pay your respects to you loved ones.

Ask yourself, if you wanted to honor your dead, would YOU drag them to an extreme length of cave and hoist them down a vertical chimney into a very disturbing dark and foreboding cave without light or escape?

Of course not, and neither would THEY!

IT'S ALL ABOUT PUNISHMENT, NOT REVERENCE

This activity is NOT reverence, but punishment!

But why then are there so many remains of them down there in one spot, beyond the vertical shaft in a closed off pit?

And why is there even a child down there, as well as what seems to be dug oval holes they were placed in?

All this is really easy to explain, when you realize just exactly what the Homo Naledi were doing and how the behavior of those brought down there is so sensible FOR THE CIRCUMSTANCE.

In plain terms, the Homo Naledi had found a deep cavernous pit, straight out of some primitive notion of hell, and had probably been trapped there once and were lucky to get back out.

Needless to say, this place would be a very frightening and foreboding place for the Homo Naledi, so much so, that at some point, they must have had the idea this was exactly the right place to PUNISH others in!

You see, all primates have one common problem when it comes to functioning in social groups - that is that many of the members of our groups far too often, do NOT obey the rules.

This occurs for many reasons, whether to establish a renegade dominance, or simply from adhering to criminal hurtful behavior, Jane Goodall wrote much about how this occurs in the chimps she studies, as well as many other primate species.

This criminal behavior no doubt would also have existed with the Homo Naledi.

It clearly does in US!

But why go through all the trouble of walking a criminal hominid to such an extent, even at the risk of dangers to those conducting this punishment?

The answer is simple - to make an EXAMPLE of them!

In fact, this is the very definition of forming some sort of rehabilitation of society through FEAR.

And EVEN TODAY, prisons do just that.

A DIRE NEED FOR FEAR AND COMMUNAL REHABILITATION

You see, it would be very easy to just kill or hurt a delinquent or criminal hominid, but this would NOT inspire the FEAR needed to put the rest of the group in their place.

And the importance of this was paramount to their survival.

What was needed was a punishment so frightening that others in the community would clearly abide by the established social rules, out of pure fear of being targeted for what they would see as the WORST punishment imaginable!

THE WALK OF SHAME

In fact, this is WHY this ritual was done in such a PUBLIC manner and mandated with such communal participation.

The idea of hominids carrying their dead for such grueling exchanges through darkness and lethal crevices makes no sense at all.

There were hundreds of other ways to do so, with even more sensibility and easier efforts. All which would have a much greater sense of spirituality and LIGHT.

There MUST have been a much more important reason to gather the community together to conduct an obviously frightening UNDERGROUND ritual as this.

What is far more sensible than the respectful burying of the dead in such a hellish place, is that LIVE members, NOT dead, were marched in a "walk of shame" into those caverns.

They were then accompanied by guards of sorts, to the vertical chute, where they were FORCED to climb down, if NOT, they were probably thrown down.

Once there, in the cold dark, they were prevented from climbing back up.

And in that cold darkness for hours upon hours, being scurried over by creeping insects in the dark, as well as being embraced by damp coldness, they did what anyone would - dig a shallow hole in the ground with whatever you had, in order to get yourself some measure of warmth and comfort.

And of course, if you dug a shallow hole to keep you warm, the shape would be OVAL, in the VERY shape you would have made for being in the fetal position to gain comfort and warmth.

The EXACT shape when campers get lost in the woods and do the same.

As more PRISONERS were brought into this hellhole, they would sense the dead bodies of their predecessors and cover them up, as not to stumble on their rotting or decomposed corpses, no doubt a behavior we, ourselves would do in such horrid circumstances.

As for the child found dead there with a rock tool in its hand - the situation STILL applies; meaning that maybe this was a child of a dissident, a delinquent hominid, or perhaps it was custom to imprison the child as an accomplice to the parent.

Or even PERHAPS that the child was a very bad kid, there is no telling if this child was part of something sinister, so it's just as bad to assume it was innocent as it was guilty of something terrible.

Be that as it may, today our children very often do very heinous things.

ESTABLSIHING A FORCE OF FEAR

So, what is the importance of having a frightening cave, becoming a prison for these hominids?

It's importance is IMMENSE!

What this practice would have done, is something far MORE communally vital, than a burial process.

What this would have done would establish a very effective deterrent to criminal behavior in a time when every single member of their troop was direly NEEDED!

By the way, if you think that punishment and chastisement is too advanced a behavior for simpler primates, just take a glance at the diaries of Diane Fossey or Jane Goodall, and you'll learn it's not!

Be that as it may, Homo Naledi was far more advanced than them, so their punishments would certainly be far more complex.

But this is about establishing a form of communal control to ensure the success of their troop and their species.

To put things in better perspective, marching a chronically misbehaving hominid to this cave prison would have been the equivalent to dragging a person to hell!

Not just that, but because their punishment was a public spectacle that involved members of the group, their credibility to vouge for these terrifying deeds would be all that was needed to scare straight, any other potential troublemakers.

And all this can be done without losing MORE valuable members of their troop.

This because the sheer legendary status of their prison cave and its dark demise for its prisoners, would become infused with a mythic status, much like the Boggie Man is to a child, but with far more believability.

So, in short, I propose what is obvious, the cave of the Homo Naledi was something far from a spiritual burial ground, but instead a very effective PRISON for those members of their community to be made examples of in a public ritual.

This is the only credible way to explain why they would go through such extremes to conduct their travels there, as well as how very important this practice would be in establishing the solidary of their community.

"SIZE MATTERS", BUT HOW YOU USE IT MATTERS MORE

As a last commentary here, it's not that I think the Homo Naledi were NOT spiritual, I get the notion that they were, and this backs up my idea, that these were some of the first to address morality and ethics, let alone the practice of punishment and communal adherence to appropriate behaviors.

These were very unique apes, ones that used their limited capacity of their smaller brains to an extent that may far outmatch those that have much larger ones.

And this should be taken seriously as a reminder that it is not the size of the brain that is important, but the manner to which it is being used which determines its intelligence.

REMARKS:

I am NOT an anthropologist, nor any man of science, I am an occultist. However, this is MY personal theory on Homo Naledi as an idea, spawning from an "average Joe" to which I feel bares some simplistic obviousness when the circumstance of this remarkable ape is considered.

-- Warlock Dark Riddle