Archaeopolitics — the ancient continuity of secret societies and their practices

Key parallels between hunter-gatherer secret societies and modern “conspiracy theorist” descriptions of secret societies today

From the masks of prehistory

To the masks of today…

If one looks thoroughly enough, one will find the influence, or outright control, of secret societies in just about every major event of modern history. Many of the leaders of the 'scientific enlightenment' were part of occult kabbalistic networks. Freemasons orchestrated the American and French Revolutions. The industrial revolution was coordinated by the likes of the Lunar Society of Birmingham. The 'communist' and 'republican' revolutions that blazed across mainland Europe in the mid 1800s were, without exception, planned and led by secret or semi-secret societies like the Carbonari, Communist League, the League of the Just, etc. etc. etc. The creation of the UN was deeply influenced by the Theosophical Society and various New Age offshoots. The social and cultural revolutions of the post-war period were manufactured by the modern "official" version of a secret society – Intelligence Agencies, which were in turn deeply influenced by the occult societies mentioned above. Investigating secret society ties among our present political elite find numerous occult groups still hold relevance, such as the Bohemian Club, Skull & Bones, the Bilderberg Group, Le Cercle… 

… and of course, the one overarching secret society that has members in the leadership of every single group named above, without exception: world Jewry and Crypto-Jewry. The Jews admittedly stretch the conceptual limits of what it means to be a "secret society" but they do meet a number of key traits that define the term: they are initiatory, secretive, maintain in-group coordination, seek aggrandizement at the expense of other groups, claim to have secret divine knowledge, have hierarchical ranks, and prefer to exercise control from 'behind the scenes.' All of that goes double for crypto-Jews, who are an important branch of the overall society of Jewry. 

We know that such secret societies exist in the modern world, and even the staunchest "anti-conspiracy theorist" will have to admit that these societies exist. What they won't admit, however, is the extent and methods of their control. They refuse to admit that major events can be staged, and they refuse to believe that democracy is essentially a lie and that the system of governance is run behind the scenes by a secretive group. But I believe that if we can trace secret societies back to prehistory and find that they control the tribe and perform staged event psyops on people to control them, then it is safe to assume that secret societies never would have stopped doing that. It's a strategy that comes naturally to a certain type of person and it has worked, so if secret societies have existed continuously since before the dawn of civilization, why wouldn't these tactics persist with them?

In what follows, I will list the traits and tactics used by hunter-gatherer secret societies that parallel the traits and tactics ascribed by modern "conspiracy theorists" to secret societies today, as described by the ethno-archaeologist, Brian Hayden, in his book The Power of Ritual.