Even outside of those secular ceremonial rituals, old "religions" simply don't look like new religions.
In old Finland, they believed you could transfer a sickness from a person to a rock, and then throw that rock away. Was that religious?
They believed you could heal an arrow wound if you chanted the origin story of how arrows came to be, and told the prototypal first arrow it was used wrongly, that it should be ashamed and take back the harm. Was that religious?
In old Finland, they believed you could transfer a sickness from a person to a rock, and then throw that rock away. Was that religious?
They believed you could heal an arrow wound if you chanted the origin story of how arrows came to be, and told the prototypal first arrow it was used wrongly, that it should be ashamed and take back the harm. Was that religious?