I was just reading in Reality is Broken about how games like Halo can inspire us to Awe because of their epic scale. She mentions how our previous theories about human evolution said that agriculture led to people settle down which gave them time to think about the gods, which led them to religion and the building of temples. But the discovery of Gobekli Tepe has led experts to now hypothesize that it was actually the desire to build something epic that led people to band together and sparked the neolithic period.
Warning: If you push play on this video, your mind may be blown.
Mine was.