Correction on Page xxii

This is one of several corrections to the book.  For other corrections see Corrections.

The sentence starting on the fourth line on top of page xxii reads:

Did this same cosmology serve as justification for ritual practices important to early literate societies even as it did for Sumer, Egypt, and India?

It should read:

Did this same cosmology serve as justification for ritual practices important to all early hierarchical societies even as it did for Sumer, Egypt, and India