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[garthnightmare]

102- based on the weather

The earliest and oldest deity among humanity must logically have been the wind; for what could be more numinous, what could call to mind the prescence of a deity more than something that is utterly invisible, yet causes the visible portions of one's living world to bend, dance, soar and sway before its might?

It may be said that light and darkness are the oldest known opposition- two states of being observable to the human being. But the early hominid can realise their control of these states- why, at the blink of their eye it is done. But the pathetic wheeze of exhalation cannot hope to match the great, formless gusts that ravage the landscape and torment the trees. Surely, then, it follows logically that the first divine force to be worshipped, beseeched, called upon, would be the wind. It is doubly more likely if we take into account the manner in which the wind was harnessed by older civilisations- for windmills, and ships, and to carry scents, and such.

And yet we no longer worship a wind god in this land. Instead we take it for granted, or assign it a vague, corporate divinity. I am certain that someone is deeply offended by the omission. They will rise again, when the time is right for it, you can count on that.