Part of the second is included now clearly in the versions posted here by Gringo for example

and regarding their religion.. I do not know hot to go further than saying "particualr deluded version of economic and human reality"... I am not sure I can be more clear without making it too long...

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude