There's something distinctive about humans. The ancient Greeks (Plato) identified it as a yearning for what is beyond our reality, transcendent virtues: Perfect truth, perfect love, perfect justice, perfect beauty, the desire for perfect being/home. Some would say such desires are evidence of a transcendent part of our being, or soul. In any event such desires because of their transcendent nature require a deity. So start with the obvious, old Sol, and progress as human thought becomes more sophisticated. So yeah, we've accumulated quite a pile of discarded gods. If I remember correctly, if you were dissatisfied with the selection of Roman household gods you got to make one up.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
