WOW!
Even though I couldn't really play the game for extended time periods... Even I recognized a certain greatness to the game that shone through many a time.
Especially with its blend of both myth as real and myth as fiction (it IS possible there are either no supernatural parts to the game, it is just stories being told to you... OR that both supernatural and superstition exist at once).
In fact it is one of the rare times fiction acknowledges that supernatural and superstition are not mutually exclusive, in fact it can intensify superstition. Usually when fiction brings it up it is always "racism" or something along those lines.
My favorite event that highlights it is when your Tribe gets a lot of alcohol in a shipment, get plastered, and start causing trouble. You actually accuse the people who went it of giving you alcohol possessed by spirits or dark magic. Best part is that the game never EVER actually tells you if that is a thing.
Which is the best part honestly the game never outright tells you "This is true" and "this isn't true" with almost any of its events. Was sacrificing all those cows doing something? Is not achieving grain variety actually angering the gods OR is it that your leaving yourself open to famine?