Just because this is way interesting...
Which makes me wonder how and when this particular cultural adaptation evolved...
ETA: except (on some further reading) that not believing in god doesn't mean they don't have a cosmology of sorts (mainly that there isn't any origin), and they also believe in various spirits--the jaguar, etc (animism, it seems like), and that there are beings perhaps that exist above the sky and below the earth (because those are boundaries of sorts of this world.
Which makes me wonder how and when this particular cultural adaptation evolved...
ETA: except (on some further reading) that not believing in god doesn't mean they don't have a cosmology of sorts (mainly that there isn't any origin), and they also believe in various spirits--the jaguar, etc (animism, it seems like), and that there are beings perhaps that exist above the sky and below the earth (because those are boundaries of sorts of this world.
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