Consider how much religion is about good and bad. The do's and don't's.

Logically though, good and bad are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, not some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil. The 1/0 of sentience. Even bacteria get it.

So it isn't so much about any higher spiritual or even intellectual state, as it is about structuring and defining the social unit.

Father figures and commandments.

Murray's book does start there and develops the process in a way that still applies today, given the extent to which the same arguments and assumptions keep coming around.