What is Sacred, and what is Profane?

Questions which underpin the ancient world view:

The first question is the most profound of all, which is: why is there something rather than nothing?
How can the existence of the physical world be explained? It has patterns of behaviour (natural laws), but it is not clear where both the physical reality and its patterns of behaviour originate, and what sustains both.
A second question concerns the nature of the reality which underpins the reality of the physical world. Is it itself, or is its...