Earlliest Memories

The primary question is survival; Initially,
the distinguishing of edible berries from poisonous ones,
and how to make a more piercing spears.

Art and ritual , I reckon, developed shortly afterward.
I would think that man always had it in him to be poet and brawler.
The sky must have always called out to him.
His reflection in water must have startled.

As language evolved, as he fell down more often
and suffered mishaps, surely, he must have asked himself;
"How did I get in this mess?"

It was then he invented God-Wills-It.
Other possibilites were subsequently explored,
including the quaint one of spontaneous evolution
of the non supreme intelligence kind.