There seems to be a deep human desire to seek an ethereal, perfect source of physical reality, human consciousness, and moral order - a non-human sort of Ultima

There seems to be a deep human desire to seek an ethereal, perfect source of physical reality, human consciousness, and moral order - a non-human sort of Ultimate Truth, be it God or Tao or Buddha or Brahma. And at the same time, there is something in humanity that recoils from such a thing, so we personify this impersonal vastness and power with a pantheon that gives. . . a more comfortable and familiar user experience. And of course it's not limited to Christianity. Buddhism is non-theistic (in the Western sense), and yet there's a pantheon of Buddhas of past and future eras, tantric meditation deities, emanations, incarnations, benevolent devas, etc. Tibetan Buddhism in particular innovates deeply into this territory.