“…A similar comparison was made by O'Gorman (1958O'Gorman ( /1984, when he distinguished between finding that which was sought and the invention, a posteriori, of an unexpected novelty. 4 The importance of religion in cultural encounters (Alvar, 1991;Bernand and Gruzinski, 1993;Bitterly, 1989;Cruz Andreotti, 2019;Cushner, 2006;Davidann and Gilbert, 2013;Flütcher, 2017;Graulich, 1994;Levitin, 2018) seems obvious, as "of all the objective elements, which define civilization, the most important usually is religion . .…”