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But it doesn't help solve the riddle of how we've come to think of ourselves as gods. Was that just out of the thrill of successfully using our wits (science, reason, intelligence) to over come the natural conditions of our suffering, making ourselves gain some godly luxury and comfort provided by culture? Or there's one little additional detail nobody here even dares to address?

The supreme patriarchic figure of the ancient world, Ba'al, a.k.a. Marduk or YHVH, were described as lesser sky gods serving as *stewards* for a cosmic supreme entity (An, or El, or Ahura Matsuda, or the Latin-Germanic "God the Father", or "Zeus-Peter", Jupiter) that is beyond the physical realm and above all. They were the "king of kings" getting around in mysterious "cloud chariots", hence likely being able to communicate with the kings of the numerous city-states, possibly all over the planet... Beyond the Greco-latin, eurocentric cultural distortion lies an elephant in the room, that even anthropologists are hesitant to be addressing. So the bi disks and cong "bowls" of jade also used by early kings of China to purportedly communicate/connect with cosmic entities or energies (possibly the Qi). That is the question of the Other, and its true nature, beyond the culturally-defined representations.