I think one of the best books I ever found, is Gilbert Murray's; The Five Stages of Greek Religion;

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30250/30250-h/30250-h.htm

While he doesn't go into this explicitly, it seems the biggest tension in trying to formulate religion, as well as culture as a whole, is the conflict between tradition and renewal. The structure coalescing in, as the vital energy pushes out. So there is that constant layering, like an oyster creating a pearl around a grain of sand.

The problem is the original thesis is based on necessarily lightly developed knowledge and might well be flawed, so the process becomes a constant, increasingly complex patching.

So those at work on the current layer are ever more involved and committed tot he details, to be able to sit back far enough to actually see the larger picture. Sort of like a couple thousand years of epicycles, before someone suggests maybe the earth is not the center.

So the layers become a crust that eventually breaks away.

As I've pointed out before, I think this will happen with the Big Bang Theory, when the James Webb becomes operational.

Given this theory imposes a cosmic narrative timeline on the entire universe, including the concept of block time in it, the resulting break will cut very deeply into our efforts to understand nature, based on our own point of view. Tradition is due a reset.

So yes, it's a really good idea. Our mental tools become our gods.