Fire burns openly in small groups — within Dunbar's number (≈150 people, the natural ceiling of stable social bonds). The body is the primary instrument of contact with reality. There is no institutional form yet; ecstasy is a daily norm. The gods are elemental, chthonic, remembered by each body.

Fire *gives birth* to the first macro-memeplexes — Sumer, Egypt, Crete, Shang-Zhou, the Vedas. From a ritual core grows the temple; from the temple — the state, writing, accounting, the calendar. Civilization is the byproduct of sacred marriage, not the other way around. The king is a living god; the pharaoh is Horus in the flesh.

The forged brain can hold meta-abstraction. The Great Memeplexes are born: Ethics, Text, Law, ethical monotheism, Buddhism, Greek philosophy. Logos becomes more important than dance; the letter more important than the body. Fire goes underground — Tantra, Kabbalah, Sufism, Hesychasm.

The axial memeplexes did their job — they forged a carrier of such quality that it became capable of a new synchronization. Not a "crack," but a *success*: on a prepared substrate two branches converge at once. The new Titans (Algorithm, Capital) are post-cultural replicators without a "face," better adapted to current complexity. In parallel — a mass layer of non-religious spirituality: syncretic practices, the psychedelic renaissance, somatic approaches, breathwork, shamanic return, charismatic revival.