Summer of Protocols

Ancient cultures all had big rituals around planting crops.

Part of it was of course was to plead to the Gods for a good harvest but... I wonder if part of the calculation was a lot of people just wouldn't plant otherwise? Like a lot of lazy people needed a big party to get out in the sun for 2 weeks and plant?

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“Dawn of Everything” has some good content on farming starting as play.

Hmm yeah that makes a lot of sense. It is really fun. Scatter some seeds and stuff comes up that you can eat. We just planted some vegetables with our 3 year old over the weekend and he loved it. 

Reading the book's Wikipedia entry led me to

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Hmm yeah that makes a lot of sense. It is really fun. Scatter some seeds and stuff comes up that you can eat. We just planted some vegetables with our 3 year old over the weekend and he loved it. 

Reading the book's Wikipedia entry led me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlaxcala_%28Nahua_state

I've read a lot about Mayans and Aztec but not yet them.