Sure - when I think of religion I am specifically thinking about organised religions which survived and prospered and are extremely populated.
When I speak of people knowing of their spiritual connections way before the advent of organised religions I am speaking about tribalism and also the innateness of spiritual awareness enough to derive the ability to create myths from those understandings in relation to the physical experience.
There are plenty of pre religious beliefs regarding afterlife, and any culture which has been able to conceptualize an afterlife is by nature 'spirituality activated', [to the degree of experience and understanding] even be that their perceptions in regards to the conceptualizing were less formalized than organised religions of today.
Also we needn't say we speculate in regards to human experiences - still been had in the modern day of now...it is very likely such experiences have
always been with human beings because we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. So even at that time when we were too animal-like to appreciate it, we nonetheless are spiritual entity having experiences.
Of course this also signifies that all other animals are spiritual entity having experiences.
But yes indeed, what you are speaking of and what organised religion is today, are intricately connected through a series of transformations aligned with the evolution of human consciousness and experience here on Earth.
Here is a small chart I created to help visualize that evolution...
And no, it is not at all off the subject of Tarot and The Fool.
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