This is a six part series of short postings of a longer article viewable at this link: Insights to Humanity's "Nature Religions". These shorter periodic postings may make reviewing the article more time efficient for you.
As early human groups migrated throughout the world they brought with them only the bare essentials, such as stone implements, spears, firestones, and pelts. Such as the famous Otzi, the iceman's kit of a woven grass cloak, coat, belt, leggings, loincloth, bearskin cap, shoes, a scraper, a drill, a flint flake, a bone awl and a dried fungus, and perhaps snowshoes. A copper ax, a stone knife, a quiver with 14 arrows and a presumed bow string, and unfinished longbow. These early nomadic hunter-gathers almost certainly had little or no concept of ownership of land. They went where survival dictated.
The more enlightened among them would no doubt have been grateful for the blessings that nature provided them. We can imagine that the first stirrings of petitioning of a higher power would have emerged around this time. We will see momentarily that such deity concepts were applied to anything with "more power" than a human. Such invocations to their deities, as exists in a few remaining primitive societies even today, would have been performed routinely and possibly communally, but we can imagine that on many occasions, prayer was done alone and in the face of danger and hunger.
With small communities constantly on the brink of starvation or of perishing from extreme weather, there evolved the need for cooperation among community members, and to a lesser extent between different tribes. Unlike our modern era It must have been clear to everyone that such was a better system than going it alone, or merely living for oneself.
