There are many things that define a specific culture although, throughout history there has always been a blatant regularity that's seemingly different in every culture even if just by the smallest detail. These differences whether subtle or not are particularly influencing in every individual culture. Some of the most important historical decisions have been made based on these differences. One could say that what a culture does not understand regulates their life and history more than any fact or piece of knowledge they possess. As a typically very curious and knowledge hungry species, humans try to explain what they do not understand. When minds settle on a few common explanatory guesses, they start believing. These idealogical beliefs are naturally shared throughout a group of people and if supported greatly enough will become a Religion. A society's decisions, customs, and overall outlook on life will almost always be guided by the dominating religion's beliefs and values and this is evident in the earliest of times.
Seemingly the most basic and unimaginative but nonetheless interesting religions was basically the first. During the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras of prehistory (together commonly referred to as "The Stone Age") no civilization had been quite yet founded. Humans often grouped together in relatively small nomadic tribes that migrated depending on where the food was. In most cases the food was consisted of gathered produce and hunted animals. The reason for this being that most Prehistoric humans had no agriculture, and didn't fully understand quite how Mother Nature worked. Naturally their system of beliefs revolved around what they required the most, food. In mostly present day Europe many cave paintings have been found and dated to prehistoric times; scholars suggest that these nomadic tribes believed they could potentially manipulate nature (or more specifically the herd) through their extraordinary detailed cave paintings. Using any...