Reading Homer and Julian Jaynes gives one the impression that there was a time, really very recently, when our actions were entirely governed by voices in the head, and these voices had to be obeyed. This was the gods, speaking to each body who was really an empty vessel for the voices to play with, as sport. Jaynes makes it pretty clear that this was a real thing and not a metaphor.
Combining this with the fact that we know nothing at all about history before 1600, and precious little about history since, there are some interesting hypotheses.
The statutes of the private trusts are these days taken as "god" by most. People worship money, but money is a trust, bonded by the private trusts at the top of the legal-fiction pyramid.
Gods lost their ability to speak directly to people as they once did, but their legacy remains. Some with schizophrenia still experience it, as with that guy who got told to drown himslef in the ocean cos he was a good-for-nothing. Well, turns out the voice was right cos he didn't even manage to accomplish that.
Most people still appear to want the Gods to order them around, and so that's what they get.
It's not as if the Gods, as we hear about them today, appear to have been a particularly noble lot. They seem to be a pretty wild lot, fucking and playing cruel jokes and meting out cruel and unusual punishments.
Seems someone higher that them stepped in and changed things somehow.
Could be related to Atlantis. Who knows. Will we ever know?
Anyway it appears that we now have the chance to join forces with this higher power, and we can do so by acting as God, ie by creating our own law, showing we are capable. Other than that, the Old Annoying Gods are going to do the governing, and that never appeared to turn out very well for the Man.
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