The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.