« Unfortunately, owing to the diversity of gustatory human types, there had seldom been any widespread agreement as to the taste of God. Religious wars had been waged to decide whether he was in the main sweet or salt, or whether his preponderant flavour was one of the many gustatory characters which my own race cannot conceive. […]
Other teachers declared that, though God was indeed tasty, it was not through any bodily instrument but to the naked spirit that his essence was revealed; and that his was a flavour more subtle and delicious than the flavour of the beloved, since it included all that was most fragrant and spiritual in man, and infinitely more.
Some went so far as to declare that God should be thought of not as a person at all but as actually being this flavour. Bvalltu used to say, "Either God is the universe, or he is the flavour of creativity pervading all things." »
— Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker
