Philosophy

The essence of Proto-religion is symbolism, wherein all or specific aspects of of any given conditions of reality, may be interpreted as symbolic of intelligent communication with spiritual sources, thought capable of the manipulation of circumstances and situations of one's experience. The sight of five crows meant nothing, but if seven crows are seen one usually would correlate it with a coming significance.

One interacts with one's reality as if it were intelligent, communicative and talks to one. One creates contexts for the interpretation of random events where specific happen-stance is interpreted as supernatural causation.

One builds a library of such instances over time, such that specific meaning is ascribed to specific events like the rain-maker through experience used a proscribed set of procedures to induce rain. When one uses cultural symbolic language, as established by the community at large over time as tradition, it is called External Authority, as not created internal to one's own experience and self-interpretive contexts. One avoids walking under a ladder, crossing the path of a black cat or stepping on a crack.

Olamic Value:

Any and every entity is considered absent definitive definition, like lightning defined as "An abrupt, discontinuous natural electric discharge in the atmosphere".

Rather any and every entity may be defined by Olamic Value, meaning it can assume any definition as symbolic of any interpretation the individual might give it, such as the shape of rocks and surface patterns may indicate a holy place. Natural change can be defined as spiritual communication in any given circumstance called Semiotic Language.

The eagle flying east is interpreted to mean a new beginning, since each new day begins with the sun rising in the east.

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