...Personification in this sense arises as soon as the need is felt to communicate one’s perceptions to others. Conceptions are thus born as acts of the imagination. Are we justified in calling this innate habit of mind, this tendency to create an imaginary world of living beings (or perhaps: a world of animate ideas), a playing of mind, mental game?
this should be 161 Are all these figures (Pantheon of gods - pim) mere allegory, pale intangibles of the mind? Perhaps not. There are reasons for supposing that these personifications of qualities belong rather to the oldest strata of religious formulation when the powers and forces by which primitive human felt surrounded had not yet assumed human shape. Before ever the mind conceives the gods anthropomorphically, when seized upon by the mysterious and tremendous menacing forces of life and nature, it gives things that oppress or exalt it vague and indefinite names, evoking rather the sensation of shadowy beings than the clear vision of human figures.