Multi Period

 The prototypes for classical druidry probably originated in the early Celtic peoples of the neolithic Hallstadt/La Tene cultures of the lakes regions of modern Austria.
Druids are believed to have retained their vast body of knowledge in an oral tradition.
Strabo tell of noisy Druid night-festivals, carousing in the streets, entire families turning out to sing and out-sing their neighbours, in honour of the full moon,

A story is told that Benjamin Franklin was British Secret Service "Agent No. 72."

 Hebrew 22 letters Greek 24 characters English 26 characters = 72

Seventy-two ornaments on the Menorah in the Tabernacle 

Luke 10:1   After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go

Seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus

The Kabbalah uses Seventy-two names of God to preform incantations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2AaZoRpCzw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEy8rX579Y

It is a fascinating how the person of the woman has both been cast as evil as well as holy. The Catholic adoration of the Virgin Mary is possibly the continuation of the adoration Isis, Ishtar, Sophia and Venus deity. 

See also Mitra/Mithra

The sacred books of Mazdaism, especially the Avesta, breathe the spirit of a lofty monotheism, which in the course of its further development was supplemented by the belief in a divine mediator, Mithra, born of a virgin and destined to be the ruler of the kingdom of God on earth, for the coming of which all good worshippers of Ahura Mazda were praying. Mazdaism has on several occasions powerfully influenced the religious life of the Western world, first in the days of Cyrus, then in the time when the Apocrypha of the Old Testament were written, furthermore in the beginning of the Christian era when Mithraism became a rival of Christianity, and finally in its sectarian revival as Manicheism, after the suppression of which the very names of Ahura Mazda, of Zarathushtra, and of Mithra were forgotten. 

see also Bible and mammon

The idea that the geography shaped the western worlds evolution. 

St Benedict's rule was a basic rule book written by St. Benedict for the running of his monasteries in the Fifth century.  The simplicity and beauty of its structure was the administrative core that ran western culture till the 1500s.  Formed by  men and women that wished to think, and live within a dedicated Christian community.   The monasteries of that time were basically the only source of literature and human examination.