No Solid Ground

1. There is no evidence for the concept of 'religion' (or 'supernatural') prior to its invention by High Scholastic Christian writers in the late Middle Ages. There is no comparable term for 'religion' in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the common ancestor of Indo-European languages. Prior to the 19th-20th century, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Classical Greek, and Native American languages had no term that functioned as 'religion'. The modern concept of 'religion was imposed by Christian "scholars" on the oral traditions, texts, rites, and symbols of non-Western and non-Christian cultures. The common assumption that the concept of 'religion' is ancient is the result of cultural conditioning and lack of inquiry. 2. Is English not your native language? Strange did suggest this in his comment: "There are signs of ritualistic ("religious") behaviour in very early societie" ...which I quoted in my post. Perhaps you overlooked it.

1. Neither. 2. The concepts of 'religion' and 'religious' are very modern inventions, dating only to the late Middle Ages. 3. What makes humans compatible with the world is a recognition that the body / mind is a convergence of patterns and processes innately embedded in terrestrial patterns and processes that are embedded in exoterrestrial patterns and processes ... all functioning as a dynamic whole. Religion is a culturally conditioned narrative that obstructs clarity ... a byproduct of a pathological perceptual alienation from the natural world and the celestial mechanics that drive it. Rites are not evidence of 'religion'. The concepts of 'religion' and 'religious' are very modern inventions that date no earlier than the late Middle Ages.

In premodern Japan, elders would decide when it was time for a younger family member to take them to a forest or up a mountain and leave them there to die in meditation.

The cycles of the moon have both regulatory and disruptive effects on the human organism, specifically influencing cardiac function, hormonal drip, organ clocks, fluid balancing, moods, mental health, metabolism, sleep patterns, and more. There are thousands of studies that confirm lunar influences ... 
 As an example, a study published in the International Journal of Biometeorology (Chakraborty 2013) regarding heart rate and blood pressure in different phases of the moon determined that the gravitation pull of the moon throughout the shifting phases has a measurable effect on cardiovascular systems. 
 
 ...and another: Human Responses to the Geophysical Daily, Annual and Lunar Cycles http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(08)00865-8?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982208008658%3Fshowall%3Dtrue&cc=y= ...and another: Evidence that the Lunar Cycle Influences Human Sleep http://www.chronobiology.ch/wp-content/uploads/publications/cajochen_2013-06.pdf 
[ for more studies, google "lunar biological effects .pdf .edu" and "chronobiology lunar .pdf .edu ]
 
 In my experience, having worked in nightclubs, hospitals, and schools ... the cycles of the moon can have a multitude of effects on humans. As a night club manager, I scheduled extra staff and security for the two weeks during which the moon waxes and less staff during the waning two weeks. I also managed inventor in the same way. As a grad student in clinical psych I interned in residential treatment facilities and hospitals and saw first hand how admissions and episodes increased during both the week of the full moon and the week of the dark moon. And as an college level educator, I witnessed class attendance, attention levels, and participation all increase and decrease in synch with the waxing and waning cycles of the moon.