Dogs Deer & Dollarbirds, By (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

If horses had gods
Xenophanes once said
The gods would all have
A horse’s head

Ever see a dog bark
At it’s own reflection
With every god ever claimed
It is just our projection

Ever see a deer
Smash through a door
It’s reflection a rival
It want’s to gore

Ever see
A divebombing bird
Crash into a window
And think “that’s absurd”

Anthropomorphism
Is what humans do
Projecting our qualities
On the world around you

It is why early gods
Like Pele punished us with fire
It was just our fear
We’d end up in a pyre

Our early gods
Reflected nature
We’d see them
In almost every creature

The clouds had controllers
Like that of Poseidon
Thor strikes you down
With a bolt of lightening

The dog in the mirror
Is the God in you
It’s in your head
Like the horses glue

Pegasus never flew
Centaurs gallop on
Into mythology
Are both now gone

Mirror mirror
Projector in theatre
The movie mere fiction
The director’s reflection

Abraham, oh Abraham
Cant you see, eventually
In future annals of history
You’ll be classified as mythology.
(end)

All gods are mere projections of our own human qualities. Early gods took the form of nature, like volcano gods, animal gods, weather gods. Polytheism mixed nature with human forms, and monotheism simply became human in form but with super powers. All of it in any case is all just humans projecting their own desires to control their environment and survive. It is a false perception regardless.