But maybe it came from love. Your wife or child had died of a fever, and the next thing you know, a hyena walks past, munching on your loved one's head.
You might decide that keeping the dead away from such desecration makes you feel better. That is, if you have anything like human emotion.
Yes , that’s a very good theory. It presupposes that these folks had the human emotion of love and weren’t motivated by self interest and fear alone. I suppose we will never know.
But I like my theory of the dream sequence better. It’s more sexy, ha ha! (As my history professor used to say.)