Hunter-gatherer groups lack the Big Gods of modern religions

Evidence

This is why groups like the Hadza are crucial for our understanding of the origins of religion, and in particular, the origins of the Big Gods of modern world religions—the powerful, all-knowing, and interventionist deities who care deeply about human morality. And this is where the story gets interesting. What is remarkable about the Hadza, and many other hunter-gatherer groups, is the absence of such Big Gods. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 396

Categorization

• XREF: Directly grounds the Norenzayan Big-God mechanism the reader is integrating: the omniscient moralizing deity is absent in egalitarian foraging bands, which is exactly the baseline against which the fumi-e scenario in Father Rodrigues must be read.