As anthropomorphic representations of natural forces. Mind (that is, brain's capacity for symbolic thinking build on pattern matching) simply creates the perceived spiritual reality by translating the unfathomable, that is, parts of reality outside our senses and/or awareness, into coherent message expressed in combined fragments of already acquired person’s private vocabulary.

https://medium.com/@senderspike/no-one-here-gets-out-alive-f7a2a1db75