Of Religion and Politicians..

It started long back, when the 1^st 'thinking' human being mutated. He was strange, peculiar, he was kind of curious; he observed and reflected on that. It was something new because it was un-necessary and it didn't fetched food. But nothing could reverse this change, when after a hard day of hunting with stone axes and eating raw flesh, he laid down under the open sky and looked at the stars, he wondered what was it all about. The stars kept moving slowly through the skies, the clouds kept flying, there was wind which could be felt but not seen. The moon kept growing and shrinking and also moved across the sky. The sun got out of nowhere every morning and disappeared every night, sometimes suddenly there was water coming down from the sky, thunderbolts hitting the ground, sometimes the earth shook heavily, while other times there was huge fire in the jungles.

He felt helpless like his fellow humans and was afraid too, since he had no control over anything. And it baffled him; he couldn't stop brooding about it rather than accepting it as a fact and moving on with life. He asked his fellows about it and they didn't knew much either. Finally after few generations some genius solved the mystery and brought things to peace by declaring that all the above, sun, moon, stars, fire, water, air, clouds, earth anything beyond control was meant to be that way and the only thing that could be done about it was to be afraid of them and respect them, like was popular culture at that time, bow to what you can't fight (I am sure there must have been a feudal revolution against the aristocracy of the floods and volcanoes, but it wouldn't take a lot of thought to see what must have happened to such a revolution). They learnt some strage ways to try to appease these nature gods.

I can henceforth deduce this was the 1^st time when a form of God like figure were discovered or invented or produced to satisfy the need to fill that void. The void which was created in the minds of the 1^st thinkers, by the absence of any plausible reasoning they could attribute to these beyond control activities which kept happening all around them all the time. The earliest known Gods as are known today are in accordance with this hypothesis as followed by almost all cultures in pre historic times. Ancient pagans believed in Air, Water, Fire and Earth as the primary gods. Hindu religion also has similar analogies with an extra God the Sky.
Although I have a natural question here which is why were these things taken as gods and not demons? becasue all these forces harmed humans at least in the short term, so was it just out of fear we accepted them as gods? Was it lack of definition of good and bad at that time, so probably they couldn't attribute a good or bad tag to these forces?