Mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the earliest history of human religion, looking at bear cults from the time of Neanderthals to the modern day.

To learn more about humanity's first mythologies, see Mythos I: The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition (www.jcf.org/works/titles/theshapingofourmythictradition/) and Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God, vol 4 (www.jcf.org/works/downloads/primitivemythology/)