In primitive cultures, tribal chieftains retained power by inspiring awe among followers with stories of their military, mystical, and sexual prowess. Typically these techniques became less effective at the end of the Neolithic. Larsen & Cassidy (2017) write..1/34

....and Worzewski (1998) hypothesized that tribal cultures encouraged chieftains to maintain order by imbuing favored underlings with similar legendary martial or sexual prowess. In some instances we see ...7/23

/9. ...points out that continuity of tribal structure required either choosing a replacement chief by their attributes or creating a narrative structure in which an heir had the mystical prowess associated with the chief. Effective manipulation of primitive psycho-sexual......