Rules of the Kamchadals
Nietzsche wrote in Morgenröte (The Dawn of Day):
...the rules of the Kamchadales, which forbid snow to be scraped off the boots with a knife, coal to be stuck on the point of a knife, or a piece of iron to be put into the fire—and death to be the portion of every one who shall act contrariwise!
Kamchadales - now called Itelmens - were indigenous people of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.
Communal living, animistic beliefs - shamans and Kutkh (the Great Raven) -, seasonal survival, and allowed polygamy for men.
Georg Wilhelm Steller (a German naturalist) and Stepan Krasheninnikov (the first Russian explorer to describe Kamchatka) met these people in the 18th century.
Krasheninnikov praised their courage in The History of Kamtschatka (1755).
When disgraced or facing certain defeat, the men would cut the throats of their wives and children... Immediately following this, they would throw themselves directly into the massed enemies and die with weapons in their hands.
Steller reflections in Description of the Land of Kamchatka (1774):
...they do not consider it a sin to kill themselves, or their wives and children, in order to escape a miserable life or a cruel death; on the contrary, they think it a brave and heroic action.
Their cult of Kutkh was based in irreverence and equality. They saw the god as a flawed creator and when things went wrong, they didn't pray; they scolded Kutkh.
Again from Krasheninnikov (Grieve translation from 1764):
They do not pay him any homage, but rather load him with revilings when they are in any trouble or distress; they say he was a fool to make so many mountains, precipices, and rapid rivers, which make their lives so laborious; and they particularly upbraid him, that he did not make the mountains more level, and the way more easy.
Interesting set of religious beliefs not based on fear.
Something to learn here from the cult of Kutkh?