do you not feel that there's an inherent danger in trying to ascribe many of the things our ancestors did to religion? thats the kind of thinking that, for years, led to the nasca lines being attributed to ceremonial purposes, instead of guideing lines to water sources. certainly, religion was an important factor to the ancients, but i feel that a full belly was more important! religious ceremony, invariably involving animals, was, as much trying to think like the animal, therefore making the hunt easier, as worshipping the animal itself! perhaps Gobleki Tepe was more likely a school than a church, teaching people how to hunt said leopards, and which (poisonus) snakes and spiders to avoid?!
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road