Relationships between a peoples environment and its religious beliefs
"At some point every culture attempts to explain where it came from based on its understanding of itself and its place in the world". Religious beliefs are the primary way in which every culture explains the questions "Where do we come from? ... Another aspect between the relationship of the environment and ones religious beliefs is the functionality the beliefs have in relation to the resources of the environment. ... Cultures also view their religious icons with a bias toward themselves.