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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Machiavelli" data-source="post: 3108700" data-attributes="member: 40964">Think about how these people view their world.  I don't mean what philosophical grippli come up with when they are actively trying to contemplate religion, I mean what the grippli people see around them.  Ask yourself what desires they have, why they put effort into the things they do each day, what they need to survive, what their environment must provide them, and what they must wrest from their environment by labor.Also think about how hostile their environment is to them, and how much of their survival is linked to unpredictable events.  The more that "luck" plays into interfering with or aiding their motivations, the mosre likely they will be to have a strong belief in active, living gods.Religions revolve around these basic concepts.  In a "primative tribe" like the grippli, their religion will not have evolved very from from these core motivations, so give them some serious thought.  Don't just throw together a variety of religious-tribal-esque niceties and call it done; make it as believable (if perhaps as bizarre) as any real-life set of naturalistic beliefs.So far, though, you seem to be doing plenty of good thinking. I'm just trying to inspire a different perspective if I can.</blockquote>