Not every language’s lexicon contains a word for a deity;
presumably the speakers had had no need of one.
In every unmade dictionary, though, lurks a word for demon
(or dybbuk or devil or djinn)
and it is curious, indeed, that so many qualities of those malevolent spirits
are nearly identical to descriptions of dangerous and powerful men.
The impulse to create clinging, immortal, evil in our own image
is more interesting than the need to mold Great God to human frame.
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