"we have to start from the premises of what might have been the most important things in their lives."
Isn't that (probably) the living world around and within them? Along with that is a global commonality of tribal/familial legend and creation myths, which hold the connection between themselves and the world around them/us. Without delineating Maslow's pyramid of need s and all that hoohaaa, it could be suggested that any hierarchy is subject to change. If religion is to be always secondary, it's odd that religion crops up in times when all other needs aren't being met. This could suggest that there is not simply (only) a pyramid, but a complex and fluid hierarchical scale of need beholden to the individual's/group's location in time, place and circumstance?
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