Where was God in 3,500 B.C.?

Every Sunday as we attend our church's service basically the same ritual is performed and it's kind of a routine.  If God forgives, something is different we get a little upset because our uptight attitude has to get out of our comfort zone.  Sitting in the same place for so many years can become dangerous for your intellect because due to our comfortable routine we stop thinking. 

Since some time now I've had a chance to regain my thinking skills thanks to many Sundays listening to speeches that could have come out of any philosophy class in any given university.  During those long, boring speeches I've had some time to drift away to pretend land.  Some crazy things can happen when your mind is just drifting around.   I confess that in the beginning my thoughts were settled in domestic issues like,  what am I making for lunch today  or the different things I had to do once I got home.

One day as I complained about it, my mother in law told me why don't you try praying or reading the bible while the "sermon" is going on.  What?????  I think she's a pretty crafty lady making the best of her time.  Nevertheless, after a while my overactive imagination drifted towards Native American Indians.  I've always been drawn to their history and have considered them the first Americans, certainly not the immigrants that settled in Jamestown. 

Christianity like other Abrahamic religions are fairly young and Native American Indians have been around for some time now.  In a world as old as ours, how can we possibly think as Christians  that God or our concept of God has only been around for about 2,000 years.  Where was God in 3,500 B.C. when all those communities of people were settling all over what today we know as the United States? 

We repeat every Sunday that God is eternal, that he was here before time itself, that he created our World and Universe.  Which takes us to the next point, God was very much interacting with these emerging communities.  Maybe not in a way that we conceptualize him or her today, but in a way they were able to understand the concept.  Many of these communities were diverse and some differences were apparent in their spirituality, but  basically across the board they believed in a spiritual deity which was one force that controlled their destinies.  They didn't have what we have today in an organizational scale, but they had strong spiritual believes. 

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Thank God they didn't have churches organized like today, because maybe they would have had to  give the equivalent of money to pay the Shaman's tipi or pay him his books (housing and education),  or food for his horse (equivalent for soaring gas prices), or any other thing that he kind of felt he was entitled to.  Thank God they relied on oral tradition and not written translations of translations of translations  of pieces of  what later would became known as the Bible.  When we talk not only do we engage in active learning, but we are able to learn communication skills with others.

This time taken to listen to others as they repeated the stories that the older people would tell gave the younger generation the opportunity to find their place among their community.  They were more successful than us in establishing multi-generational  communities than we are today.  Bottom line, why in earth do we think that we not only own the truth, but heaven as well.  So, where did all those good, well behaved people go when they died under our standards or beliefs?  I'm more than certain that they found peace at the end, the peace that only our God can give us, which means that our same God was more than present way back then  in 3,500 B.C.  If not,  how many eternal Gods do we have around?