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heliolithic

a. of a civilization characterized by megaliths and sun-worship

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Across the warm temperate regions of this rather warmer and better-wooded world, and along the coasts, stretched the brownish peoples of the Heliolithic culture, the ancestors of the bulk of the living inhabitants of the Mediterranean world, of the Berbers, the Egyptians and of much of the population of South and Eastern Asia.

Very long ago the first primitive Chinese civilizations arose in the great river valleys out of the primordial heliolithic culture.

First for thousands of years the heliolithic culture spread over all the warm and fertile river valleys of the old world and developed a temple system and priest rulers about its sacrificial traditions.

We are carried back directly to the blood sacrifices of the heliolithic stage in human culture.