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Elite_Jackalope t1_jd3b1hl wrote

Reply to comment by SomeplaceManitoba in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone

Did you, like, intentionally read around the stuff you didn’t like?

Not everything, especially concerning ancient human societies, has to boil down to “religion bad.” Until fairly recently (in the grand scheme of our existence) religion and the supernatural was how all people alive understood the world.

> The Aborigines named the mountain Wingen, which means 'fire'. Their explanation of the origin of the burning mountain was that one day, a tribesman was lighting a fire on the mountainside when he was carried off deep into the earth by The Evil One. Unable to escape, he used his fire stick to set the mountain alight, so that the smoke might warn others to keep away.

He is literally carried into the mountain by an evil spirit and lights the mountain on fire to warn others of the spirit’s presence. The complete opposite of your understanding.

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