Our Hypersensitive Agency Detection Device makes us susceptible to perceiving agency in natural phenomena. Our Theory of Mind makes us inherently biased toward “humanizing” whatever phenomena we encounter. So then, how else would we picture the gods except in human form? We are the lens through which we understand the universe and everything in it. We apply our personal experience to all that we encounter, whether human or not. In doing so, we not only humanize the world; we humanize the gods we think created it.
