[1/2] One thing that #MurrayBookchin says about #religion in #prehistory, in #TheEcologyOfFreedom, is that spirits and deities emerged as abstractions of the real entities and concepts they represented, which were already revered in #spiritual ways.

The first Sun god was the Sun, the first Earth goddess was the Earth, the first animal spirits were the animals themselves, the first love deity was love itself, etc.