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When I first picked up on the branches of sacrifice, transcendence and faith, and the demonic possession initiation/magic stuff, I did a ton of research trying to find what was the point of origin of each.

I imagined the sacrifice/possession stuff came from a parent culture of Canaanites/Jews and such, but to my surprise it was literally every culture.

The earliest references we have are the indo-european stuff:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*K%C3%B3ryos

The more you dig the more you realize it was just the prevalent culture up until Christianity, with a little resistance from some Greek and Asian Philosophers developing some small scale alternatives.