“Breathless with awe and the elemental beauty, power and depth of Nature, it seems relatively obvious that humans often invented gods as refuges; through and into which they could project their own dreams of mastery and omnipotence, and by virtue of which they might enjoy some measure of protection against forces whose inconceivable breadth and momentum rendered them an omnipresent threat to sense and repose.

Thus, the gods became bulwarks against Nature’s infinite majesty and inspiration, and came to comprise the crude ladder along which we would postulate and prosecute our largely fatuous eminence ‘over’ these forces.”

— an anonymous part of the sky