Hey! I went a little off-track with my idea, but it's still relevant to your prompt. Feel free to skim over my thoughts/use them to structure your own.
My logic: Humans have an instinctive desire to have friends/connections; some historians note that, during the stone age/earlier, humans would kill themselves if their group/tribe abandoned them (because groups tripled the odds of surviving sickness, attacks from powerful animals, etc). This also ties to storytelling/mythology; in earlier eras, the idea that "we're alone in the universe" terrified people, and storytelling was a means of escaping that fear.
By giving meaning to natural occurrences through myths and legends, early groups of people gave themselves a sense of security.
Hopefully I was of some help! Sorry if I steered a little too far from the prompt.
