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[The Linear B Tablets] were written directly in what I am calling the bicameral period. p.80; …to have an idea of the nature and range of the bicameral voices heard in the early civilizations. p.88; …how could [the brain] have been organized so that a bicameral mentality was possible? p.101; Like the queen in a termite nest or a beehive, the idols of a bicameral world are the carefully tended centers of social control, with auditory hallucinations instead of pheromones. p.144; …wherever and whenever civilization first began…there was a succession of kingdoms all with similar characteristics that, somewhat prematurely, I shall call bicameral. p.149; Bicameral gods [of conquering civilizations] are jealous gods. p.156, footnote; …I suggest that given man, language, and cities organized on a bicameral basis, there are only certain fixed patterns into which history can fit. p.159. How can we know that…idols ‘spoke’ in the bicameral sense? p.174.