ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the imaginations connected in the multitudinous religions of mankind with the belief that the gods or the chief of the gods, live in the sky would take a volume by itself. The belief in the Sky-God may have two forms according as the sky itself is personified, is identified with the Person up there, or as the Person is conceived more anthropomorphically and the sky is regarded simply as the place in which he lives. In the ancient civilizations which have advanced beyond the primitive stage, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, the Sky-God is definitely a Person like a man who lives in the sky, not identical with the sky. The survey of symbols in religion shows that the symbols by which man has tried to express his idea of the Divine are taken partly from the material world accessible to his senses that is to say from human emotions values.
