But it is a reasonable conjecture.
In their original character these customs were probably secular rather than religious.

They took their rise as methods proved by primitive practice to be good methods for laying out land for farming or for encamping armies.

But in early communities all customs that touched the State were quasi-religious; to ensure their due performance, they were carried out by religious officials.

At Rome, therefore, more especially in early times, the augurs were concerned with the delimitation alike of farm-plots and of soldiers' tents.

They testified that the settlement, whether rural or military, was duly made according to the ancestral customs sanctioned by the gods.
After-ages secularized once more, and as they secularized, they also introduced science.