Temple directors were Accountants not Priests

Pascal's wager: every farm has a little shrine, just in case..

I and The Village, by Marc Chagall (date: 1911)

An agricultural estate with a shrine, not a temple with a farm..

Our knowledge of history is easily distorted by words we use to describe and communicate phenomena. We may take an artwork or symbol as representative of true belief. We may wrongly assume that a totemic image of a lizard tells us totem users b…