Sorry, I don't quite understand your argument. There will always be people with different ideas. That is what makes us human. My argument is that such ideas and the societies that are organised from them are quite fleeting (as noted by your matriarch example). Genocidal priesthood may have forced people in one region to believe in divinity, but I doubt that with the technology at the time, they would have enabled the expansion of so many other religion - abrahamic religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikh etc etc.

Again, I did not come up with currency and it does not matter if I personally believed in it. Enough people did and now we have capitalism. The people organised themselves, and if it is not what they wanted, history has a recording of many many revolutions and uprisings.