They saw the divine not in individual gods and goddesses, but as the underlying reality of the world surrounding them. That covers about 95 % of human history.

Post-Neolithic Rev., the "first" god tended to be a sky/thunder god of some kind, patriarchical b/c it supported the arbitrary rule of the ruler/ruling class.

Those figurines are sometimes called Venus figurines. The book's still out on exactly the purpose they served, but they were incredibly popular across a wide geographic area in the late Paleo.

as maiden, mother, and old woman. holy trinity.

her husband, the sky, begat upon her the sun, the stars, the planets, each with its own sphere of inflience.

then came chronos, time, and the mating of time to mother earth produced life.

in time, life produced humans, who learned (from the tree of knowledge).........

And out of chronological order.

most mythology does.

My opinion, as always.

I hope that this clarifies the matter.

I doubt that the first people to invent religion had a genuine concept of a creator. Instead, the first gods were just powerful beings. In the case of the goddess, we're talking birth, but of humanity, not creation.

But we cannot say that they did or did not recognize the Creator.

[citation needed]

Since you are stating that as a fact, I thought I'd clarify further.

Then he got bitten by a radioactive spider and...

The consciousness of being alive and in awe.

just a slob like one of us.

Thanks for reminding me of the song.

That after finding all those Goddess figurines the early anthropologists (male) decided there obviously was a supremem male god who was too important to make into little figurines. Heh gotta love that prejudice