Same bodies, different souls.
We looked at a portrait (naturalist object) of a woman from Europe painted during the Renaissance. In this culture, animals are seen as objects and are not equal as in an animist world. The material world is paid attention to and humans are seen as better than animals because they have souls. It is humans that show the importance of the material world. Humans like showing how different they are as the light is always on them in paintings, every person looks different, we are just machines and the soul is more important than the being.
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