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Prehistoric religion

Religion before written records The Venus of Laussel, a stone relief of a seated woman Part of a series onHistory of religion Study Anthropology Comparative Evolutionary origin Evolutionary psychology Historiography Timeline Prehistoric Ancient Near East Ancient Egypt Mesopotamia Semitic Chinese Indo-European Historical Vedic religion Ancient Greek religion Roman Celtic Germanic Axial Age Vedanta Śramaṇa Dharma Tao Hellenism Monotheism Middle Ages Christianization Spread of Islam Renaissance Modern era Age of Reason New religious movements Postmodernism Founding figures Laozi (Taoism) Zoroaster (Zoroastrianism) The Buddha (Buddhism) Abraham (Judaism) Mahavira (Jainism) John the Baptist (Mandaeism) Jesus (Christianity) Hamza ibn ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad (Druze) Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (Yazidism) Guru Nanak (Sikhism) Nakayama Miki (Tenrikyo) Báb (Bábism) Bahá'u'lláh (Baháʼí Faith) Wang Jueyi (Yiguandao) Aleister Crowley (Thelema) Ngô Văn Chiêu (Caodaism) Gerald Gardner (Wicca) Marcus Garvey (Rastafari) Anton LaVey (LaVeyan Satanism) Raël (Raëlism) By religion Bahá'í Faith Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Islam Jainism Judaism Sikhism Taoism Wicca vte Prehistoric religion is