What is the oldest documented god figure (good or evil) and whaty is the oldest religion?
Some scholars argue that a few of the Vedas contain references to early post-Ice Age climatic conditions in the Indian peninsula. This idea is still contested (though more acceptable than it was fifty years ago), but if you accept it then Hinduism (the core faith of the Vedas) originates more than six thousand years ago, making it by far the oldest religion currently practised. Even if you reject the Lokamanya hypothesis, Hinduism is still an old religion by the third millenium BC, which makes it a similar age to the Fertile Crescent religions. Hinduism is the oldest living religion, and one of the oldest known. We cannot date the oldest religion, since Neanderthals buried their dead with flowers and sometimes gravegoods as early as 60,000 BC. When you consider that there is nothing that can properly be called history before about 2,000 BC and no writing at all before 3,500 you get some perspective on why we cannot really know much about what Neanderthalers were thinking fifty-five tho
