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> hunter gatherer (steward of natural order) versus agrarian (progenitive force molding the natural world)
Literally Cain and Abel. Also how Saul was a farmer but David was a shepherd (Christ is called the Good Shepherd), or how in India, Krishna is a cowherd and in Southwestern America, Coyote is seen as the god of wisdom. Getting close to animals and understanding that you are at their mercy is part of natural law, while agriculture (and later, the creation of cities, see Genesis 4:17) represents man trying to usurp natural law and make himself wise. Those who do not respect nature will soon become unnatural, as our current society exposes. Rama lived in the Golden age and cooperated with the beast-king Hanuman (later known as Son Goku in Journey to the West), while in the Iron Age, we treat animals and even other people like machines and seek to cross breed and genetically manipulate them.
>see picrel. I take things from a Christian perspective, but she says many of the same things from a Hindu/NatSoc perspective