All of these traditions abstract from the stories and narratives of their time, certain universal understandings (you go from MHC stage 9 Concrete stories to stage 10 Abstract concepts). There is not just “the gods”, but a “God above all gods”—the ultimate abstraction. But this is not only found in Abrahamic religions, you have the Brahman in Hinduism, formless emptiness as the ground of being in Buddhism, the Tao in Taoism, the Tian (heaven above all the gods) in Confucianism, Ahura Mazda (the lord of wisdom) in Zoroastrianism,
