Because history is dependent on some form of archaeological evidence, uncovering the very first human religion is, in effect, impossible. Speculation on the subject is covered by countless volumes, but it's patently false to say anyone knows what the first religions were.
What we can surmise, with a reasonable degree of certainty, is that the original religions of the human race were based around a few key factors - nature, the seasons, death, and the stars.
Pagan religions were based on faith in the fruitful earth replenishing itself every new year. These religions were, of course, based on understanding the patterns of nature and the earth, since these agrarian societies were dependent on farming for survival.
Pre-pagan religions could be surmised as any myths or stories that earlier people, hunter gatherers, devised, to explain life and death and whatever else was vitally important to their daily existence. At night, the group's storytellers would create tales to make sense of what their people struggled with every day. These tales, we would have to think, were the first 'religions,' and likely the best myths took hold, lasted, were developed over centuries and passed on, until they became the old myths we know today.
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