Chuck Grimes wrote:
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> And you realize that is precisely what a mythological structure is, a
> narrative or the story of the origin of people and how they came into
> the world, through the actions and wills of the gods, beings before
> them. The gods of wind, sky, water, fire, of the animals and so forth.
It's been many years since I read on this, and opinions/knowledge may have changed. But as I understood it, fire, wind, trees as themselves animate, with intentions, preceded any thought of gods, which were a more abstract understanding of natural forcesd.
Carrol