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I always felt Wilson in the movie "Castaway" was the most realistic portrayal of God for survival situations.
Wilson was real though.
Pretty much. They keep digging and talking to the few primitive groups left.
Some animals that are smart and social have funeral rites. Crows and elephants. Been known to visit locations where the dead were, leave items for their poor dead friend. A dead human and a living human are basically the same except something seems missing. We know now it is the arrangement but to our ancestors it was some component. Well if something is missing it must be out there somewhere.
Funeral sites are built. People go there and look at the little stone. Maybe the thing that is missing is in the stone. Leave items and gradually question why they are doing it. It must be transactional. Offerings develop. I give this cup of wine and you help me with my crops this year. Ancestor worship is still common around the world and why should it not be? Your parents always looked after you and you are still helping them.
The ancestor worship grew. Some ancestors were more important than others. Great warlords are still revered for centuries. Eventually morphing into a small god who protects the tribe. The small god is better than the small god of the other tribe. There must be a god greater than them all.
"We know now it is the arrangement"
Can you explain what you mean here?
Sure, it isn't like a human loses mass when they die. The difference between a dead human and a living one is how everything is hooked together. A rough analogy: take apart a Lego set, the bricks are still there but the structure is totally different.
However, to a person without this knowledge it looks like there was something taken away. Breath/soul is how Mediterranean cultures traditionally viewed it.