“… and it occurred to me then, for the first time, that humans creating statues… might be doing something transcendental. They might be recursing on our own origins, created by the sky-beings… such that it was clear to them that:

A: As we were shaped by Gods in matter.

B: We can return the favor and shape matter into Gods.

My ontology trained me to think it was simply representation. But now I realize that I almost certainly had it backwards. Those statues »were Gods. The opposite of a mortal human… is a statue. To make one is to make the makers. And why would they not indwell it…?”

— infraheard