You mean this idea? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_detection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_detection There's another aspect to proto-religion which

You mean this idea? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_detection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_detection There's another aspect to proto-religion which has to do with power rather than agency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana#Pre-animism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana#Pre-animism All this is speculative, AFAIK.