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According to Usener, the lowest level to which we can
trace back the origin of religious concepts is that of
“momentary gods”, as he calls those images which are
born from the need or the specific feeling of a critical
moment . . . and still bearing the mark of all its pristine
volatility and freedom. But it appears that the new
findings which ethnology and comparative religion have
put at our disposal during the three decades since the
publication of Usener’s work enable us to go back one
step further yet.
Civilization gives the barbarian or tribal man an eye for an ear
and is now at odds with the electronic world.
* This step takes to a more generalized sense of the
manifestations of divine potency, away from particular,