The development of early religion was profoundly influenced by the discoveries of agriculture and animal husbandry.
- As early as the sixth millennium B C, divine triads consisting of father, mother, and son were recognized and worshipped with the assistance of a shrine and rituals in the ancient Near East.
- As the mythology and cultic symbolism connected with fertility gods developed in the direction of the crystallized form represented in the Adonis-Attis-Osiris cycle of the third millennium, religion became increasingly complicated.
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