[Pedantically yours]: There is a school of anthropological psychology that posits that (ever sustaining) mytho-magical-wishful-religio-superstitious thinking naturally evolved with the growth of self-consciousness. The cave paintings were projected “prayers” for a beneficial outcome before a dangerous undertaking. (Thusly, members of the hunting party and their blood-tie bands constituted the original audience.)
[Pedantically yours]: There is a school of anthropological psychology that posits that (ever sustaining) mytho-magical-wishful-religio-superstitious thinking naturally evolved with the growth of self-consciousness. The cave paintings were projected “prayers” for a beneficial outcome before a dangerous undertaking. (Thusly, members of the hunting party and their blood-tie bands constituted the original audience.)