Is there an evolutionary / anthropological basis for religion? [View all]
It seems world wide there is evidence of some sort of expression over thousands of years. Among many disparate cultures. I've always wondered about that.
From the Polynesian archipelagos, to the Peruvian mountains, the lakes of Mexico, the broad swath of the current US, sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, Southeast Asia, China, the Indian sub continent, Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, etc.
Were the concepts carried along with migrations? Did they arise independently? What was the value?
One obvious thing I get is the rise of "recorded" representation in all cultures. Starting with hand prints, animal figures, hunters. Observations. Histories.
Did a growing objective sense of time play a part? A time beyond a singular birth and death? Some time beyond those parameters?
Was a third party, so to speak, needed to make day-to-day sense of it all?
Was a third party, a local person, needed to support that day-to-day sense?
Was a celestial third party needed, as is a common concept now, to ensure the course of things?
Rambling, but again I'm curious how it all came about.
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