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I believe the antediluvian civilizations that lived before the cataclysm of 12000+years ago were made up of people just like the world today. Complex societies of good hardworking families, as well as corrupt powerful leaders and religious dogmas.
I believe that our solar system experiences cyclical cataclysmic perturbations. When the Sun erupts at this scale, absolutely apocalyptic chaos ensues. Comet and Asteroid orbits get rocked, inter-celestial impacts and Electric phenomena wreak havoc.
I think if you were alive to witness and survive these events, you might try anything to appease the wrath of the Sun so that it wouldn't happen again. I think the abhorrent practices of animal and human blood sacrifice developed After the cataclysm as an attempt stave off planetary scale destruction, not Before the cataclysm because they "were sinful".
I think the evil people practicing the type of ritual murder that the ancient cults did are doing it more as a twisted justification for their own debauchery. (Epstein and ilk) I don't think they truly know what the ancients knew, their practices are a bastardization and a debasement of whatever kernel of knowledge was preserved by the people at places like Gobekli Tepe.