Jesse M. Bering and Dominic D.P. Johnson (2005), '''O Lord ... You Perceive my Thoughts from Afar": Recursiveness and the Evolution of Supernatural Agency', Journal of Cognition and Culture, 5, pp. 118-42.

Di'v-ine omniscience has another field of activity; besides the deeds and besides the words of mankind, it examines even their inmost thoughts and secret intents. In the prophecies of Jeremiah we are told that the Lord tries "the reins and the heart" Ger. Xi, 20). The same thought is found among many other peoples, savage and civilized. Karai Kasang, the Kachin Supreme Being, "sees" even what men think. The Haida say that everything we think is known to Sins sganagwa. The Great lVfanitu of the Ankara knows everything, including the most secret thoughts. Tezcatlipoca knows men's heart; Temaukel, the Supreme Being of the Ona-Selknam, knows even our thoughts and most private intentions. In Babylonia, the god Enlil knows the hearts of gods and men, and Shamash sees to the bottom of the human heart. Zeus likewise knows every man's thought and soul.