In early Paleolithic Man cane belief in a God, a god of hunting. That allowed them success in the hunt if they were good and honest folk. Hunting only for the good of the Tribe. A God that would keep the game away if the members of the tribe became greedy of what they took from the earth. This was the horned God the god of the hunt.

In early Paleolithic Man also came the belief in a Goddess, a goddess of fertility, of Mysteries. They did not know how children or young animals came to be. Only that a male and female had to couple. If the Goddess was willing she allowed children and young animals to be born. Without the blessing of fertility from the Goddess there would be no game to hunt. No new young men that would grow to hunt for the tribe. No young girls that would grow into woman that tend needs of the tribe, through their medicines, cooking, nursing, midwifery, management of goods, teaching the young, Tailoring, or the birthing of a next generation.

No one knows exactly when the first Paleolithic man placed a dear skin on his back and head dress, to be a representation of the God, as seen in early cave painting. That one act brought about the existence of religion and a priesthood; The idea of one calling and working with the God and Goddess, totems and natural spirits for the good of the tribe. The Medicine Man and the Medicine Woman came to be. The Old religion that would develop into Wicca was born.

As the tribe grew in faith and belief in the Horned God, and the Goddess; (earliest representation of which were the Venus a short faceless woman with enlarged Mammary glands, Tummy, and Genitalia. Enhancing the features of fertility) the knowledge of magick came to them. They began to understand the power of Prayer, of chants, of the forces of the elements and the moon, and Sympathetic magick. They would couple with each other in the springtime, to symbolize their desire for the animals to do the same. They would make representations of the animals they would soon be hunt, and symbolically kill the representation. So they could have success in the hunt. They began to offer up part of their hunt and foraging to the God and Goddess. By the time of the wheel's invention, Faith and religion had become ingrained in the life of man. Religious and social taboos were in place. Soon mankind would learn to plant and grow crops and make more discoveries as they started to change from a nomadic life to an agricultural Life.

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