The Bicameral Mind: Foreword by Kit Carruthers
Julian Jaynes theorized that early homo sapiens received divine command, fulfill the orders that one day lead to mankind. He clicked onto something important, however obviously at the time the understanding was not really available he had no choice but to go a little spiritual loopy with it. Considering the nature of what we now know of infant development, the formation of the conscious mind, and what we now know we say and feel as newborns, we easily confirm the base validity, however it must first apply to homo erectus, when we were closer to animals, more based in instinct, more unconscious.
He presented it as hallucinatory divine command from the right hemisphere carried out by the left hemisphere. Not so much, you did better than pop psychology with hemisphericity but not so much. It's simply an unconscious flow of instinctual knowledge.
This would of course mean that homo erectus understood reincarnation, understood the mission of evolution.
In the early days of homo sapien, things do still remain mysterious. Things are growing conscious, cut off from what we knew before, however there would still be implications within our thinking that we're following a known path, we don't know we're following a known path but we're following a known path, it's mysterious.
Okay, you know how it is, I'm speaking to your semi-conscious, you have not explored Ineffable Ontological Detanglement and Your Culture, Your People well enough means you are not prepared to continue, known false memory systems wall lock out.
I can now tell you, after I figured that all out all by myself I did, that at the birth of civilization, God contact is made. For one life, you all know everything, you know all the stories, this is the birth of civilization, this is the birth of humanity. You get to remember the evolutionary path that brings you here. Now it must be forgotten. It isn't as ethereally sophisticated as you're thinking, however, remember these people have no written language meaning they don't really have concepts meaning they're still not very conscious.
Now for all of ancient society, everybody pretty much just maintains... We're in the early stages of development, whatever comes out of our collective mindset just roll with it, whoever thinks they end up a historical figure just roll with it. We don't remember the answers, we don't remember what came before, but, we know what we are. The ancient times are holy, we don't get cut off until somewhere around the mid 1200s.