"The Sacred and the Profane" by Mircea Eliade explores the ways in which religious experience is structured in terms of the opposition between the sacred and the profane. It's a short book with an elegant book.
Eliad documented across the world was the pattern by which polytheistic belief systems turned into monotheistic belief systems that parallels maturation it's the same thing and so the polytheistic Gods tend to be rep representations of
""Peterson recommends "The Sacred and the Profane" by Mircea Eliade as a starting point for understanding the evolution of religious thinking. He highlights its exploration of the transition from polytheistic to monotheistic belief systems and its relevance to the integration of motivational states."