ABSTRACT
In a world where religion and politics were indistinguishable, rulers were regarded as theopolitical deputies, messengers, or mediators between humankind and the sacred; or they were directly descended from a deity, a divine incarnation of some sort, or were believed to be mortals possessing supernatural powers. 1 In today’s parlance they were leaders, though ones with a more direct line of communication to the divine world. This linkage took the form of hallucinations. In this chapter, I examine the different varieties of sacred power found in bicameral civilizations.
