Because that it wasn't just Mesopotamia, it was also Egypt. So this book is paralleling the mystery plays of Egyptian with Babylon and saying they also have these rituals that they get their legitimacy to rule from the priest and the goddess and therefore become the god on earth. Like, you know, the Pharaoh would be raw on earth. Right. And within all of this, you have just so much human sacrifice going on. It's not just people play acting, LARPing. They're literally shedding blood of people. I mean, just the amount of different types of human sacrifice is kind of chilling when you read these ancient texts because you have the widow sacrifice, right? If a powerful man died, his wife was expected to just sacrifice herself and maybe her family too to just go in there with them. You have foundation sacrifices where when they're building the cornerstone to a big undertaking and they'll just slit someone's throat and push them into the future.

And then I found out, because I was interested, that that is what every society has said in recorded history. Every society, from the ones that, you know, are very famous, the ancient Canaanites, the Mayans, the Aztecs, all the Mesoamerican civilizations, but also the Western European civilizations, my own, where my ancestors lived, you know, in the Nordic countries. They were also committing human sacrifice. There's something about killing other people ritually. As an offering to the spirit world that is a constant through human history. Every civilization has done that.

The dynamics of human sacrifice varied dramatically from culture to culture. No! Pretending that it's one phenomenon that must have been motivated by demons as idiot shit. Yeah. This is, like, I would say middle school level thinking. I would say that the phrase, that I am aware of, carried more weight than Atlas. Yeah. Human sacrifice was not universal or homogenous.

According to his belief, quote, the refusal to accept death either as a natural or as a final phenomenon populated the world with witches, ghosts, ancestral spirits, gods, demigods, angels, and devils.

Since left unchecked, Kessler believes that this could result in human self-extinction.