Hebrews and Glue

According to the Hebrew god, he made the world in six days and rested on the seventh sometime after the Sumerians invented glue. According to the Norse Eddas, Midgard -that's Earth- sits upon the Yggdrasil World Tree which is somehow not visible from space. Why do the Yama Kings' control over hell cease at the borders of the middle kingdom? Why don't Incan and Egyptian mummification rituals follow the same mystic and Ecclesiastic rules? Why does the rainbow serpent stay in Australia? Why did Thor never travel to Punjab to honor the warriors there? Why did Ganesha never inspire a Pagan European Shaman?

We have catalogued fossils and other geological and anthropological evidence tracing the origin of the modern human back to roughly two hundred thousand years ago. And yet; the oldest gods and spirits of which we can find evidence- recorded in stories and rock art from Australia- are a mere forty thousands years young. Gods are so much younger than humanity that our general belief in their immortality is astonishing. And if we cease to limit our musings to modern humans and include all human species then the timeline jumps to around two million years depending on current evidence. And then I wonder: do apes have gods? Do birds follow spirit guides on migration? Do whales sing in religious devotion?

And this is why Chaos Magicians eschew traditions. If our gods are younger than us, then we have the hierarchy reversed. This is why Grant Morrison summoned John Lennon in deity form with the same willingness as he did when communing with scorpion gods and Hellenistic goddesses alike.

To assume that our gods exist outside us is to ignore the weight of history. Any power or magick our gods possess they obtained from us. And thus, we can use or modify, create or banish them as we need. They serve us and we are their creators. It is only power hungry priests and would be god kings who have labored to convince us that the reverse is true.