It will always be surprising the capacity that the human being has to oversize the misunderstood (or incomprehensible), the unattainable, or the superior. He has done it for myth and legend, and also for physical constructions (sculptures, buildings, etc.). That they do it with the gods, it is understood, but with humans, like them; there begins my disagreement.
We have carried that imprint since antiquity; there we have, for example, the history of the Tower of Babel, and the incomprehension it generated.
They deify, glorify, even turn into gigantic statues, political individuals, as happened with Lenin, Mao Tse Tung, to mention just two, whose work must have been to carry out what was socially agreed. But they became untouchable, reverential figures. Luckily, people knocked down their statues of deception.
Thank you for your illustrative post, @nancybriti, and to @adsactly for posting it.
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