Indeed, that's why the gods or spirits became moralistic with the rise of civilization and the Axial Age. I think I say here that the animistic idea of our general dependence on ancestral or nature spirits could have been based on our experience of children's dependence on their elders. That projection would have needed behavioural modernity (a facilitation with symbols, reason, and the imagination), not necessarily a sense of guilt from the superego. On the contrary, if the spirits in animistic religions were bound only by their role in natural cycles, that would have been induced by basic knowledge of how nature works (acquired from surviving in the wild).

Incidentally, I'm writing a similar article now on how religion's sacred-profane distinction could have been modelled on the basic experience of sex.