Watching gods correlated with large-scale agricultural cooperation in early civilizations

Evidence

One of the oldest and most significant deities in ancient Egypt was Horus, the sky god, also known as “Horus of Two Eyes.” His head was often depicted as a falcon with sharp eyes, one representing the sun, the other, the moon. Some scholars think that the right eye was also known as the “Eye of Ra,” although these could also have been separate deities. Horus or Ra watched over people in the towns and villages of Egypt, where intense cooperation was needed in one of the earliest agricultural civilizations. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 99

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence that Big God monitoring emerges where cooperation demands are high, and particularly in agricultural settings — relevant to the reader’s comparative worldbuilding work on infrastructure and civilizations.