AlpineCorbett t1_ja4y7t1 wrote
Reply to comment by get_rhythm in 4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to mighty thunder god discovered in Iraq. by Rifletree
When you don't understand electromagnetic forces but you do know the sky lights up and screams at you sometimes, well that's a good basis for a deity. Most ancient cultures have one.
IAmtheHullabaloo t1_ja506w2 wrote
And there is the Angry Eye Ball in the sky. You can't even look at it.
AlpineCorbett t1_ja51959 wrote
Extremely eldritch.
Gives life, blinds you by looking at it, tears your skin apart on a molecular level, unaware of our existence....
Muggaraffin t1_ja5572g wrote
It is weird to think what people must have made of the sun back then, or even just a few centuries back. Before they even understood the concept of space, and instead just knew of the 'above us'. And like you said, angry eye ball. Just some large bright white hole in the sky that hurts to look at. Imagining a kind of Sauron figure makes total sense :/
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