“Other scarabs, in their march through the great forest, encounter other stray humans, and worship them under various names. They have, in the eternal course, encountered different gods. But all the gods are true in whom someone believes. They are furtive apparitions of misunderstood and feared beings. Thus, in the sphere superior to ours, lives a population of gods who are only gods to us, who are enveloped by another sphere, haunted by others, who serve them as gods in their turn.