amorphous_constellation
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So I have been reading this stuff on Alaskan survival, and that triggered this question. I guess before processed foods, you probably would want things like beaver or bear in the diet in Alaska, otherwise you get rabbit starvation? Now turning to what the ancient civilization in the levant would have eaten, they would prohibit fats due to Leviticus 7:23 (or many of them?)
Furthermore, the fats seemed to have been sacrificed or burned for god, if I recall, and this portion was for god. To the non-vegan person, the cooking of fats is what usually smells so good about much of cooking, in my estimation. So to those non-vegan people in the presence of that, smelling such things, and not being able to indulge in them, might have been an act of great abstinence.
It is very interesting because the general culture of mankind was not so far out of the hunter - gatherer mode, a survival mode, where probably no one would deny themselves the 'fatty bits' after a long chase
Very interesting to deny the pig-type animals, as even a wild boar probably has enough fatty tissue so that it is practically processed in and of itself. That's probably why for example, the celts (contemporary with the bible era) likely made the boar into a god, and seemed to have made rituals of feasting on it , because they couldn't fully eschew a hunter - gatherer mode
So I guess they would have got most of their nutrition from wheat, per Deuteronomy 8:8 ? How did they process it, where did they grow it, and how many people could that feed? Surely, they must have had to import wheat if they wanted the population to expand, right? What foods did they import? Or was there really enough fertile land to grow what they needed?
Things besides wheat, like fig trees, grapes, pomegranates, honey, and maybe olives, possibly would have too low yield to feed city level populations on the foundational level. So I'm not sure why they are as important to mention
Furthermore, the fats seemed to have been sacrificed or burned for god, if I recall, and this portion was for god. To the non-vegan person, the cooking of fats is what usually smells so good about much of cooking, in my estimation. So to those non-vegan people in the presence of that, smelling such things, and not being able to indulge in them, might have been an act of great abstinence.
It is very interesting because the general culture of mankind was not so far out of the hunter - gatherer mode, a survival mode, where probably no one would deny themselves the 'fatty bits' after a long chase
Very interesting to deny the pig-type animals, as even a wild boar probably has enough fatty tissue so that it is practically processed in and of itself. That's probably why for example, the celts (contemporary with the bible era) likely made the boar into a god, and seemed to have made rituals of feasting on it , because they couldn't fully eschew a hunter - gatherer mode
So I guess they would have got most of their nutrition from wheat, per Deuteronomy 8:8 ? How did they process it, where did they grow it, and how many people could that feed? Surely, they must have had to import wheat if they wanted the population to expand, right? What foods did they import? Or was there really enough fertile land to grow what they needed?
Things besides wheat, like fig trees, grapes, pomegranates, honey, and maybe olives, possibly would have too low yield to feed city level populations on the foundational level. So I'm not sure why they are as important to mention
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