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I'm trying to think of any mythology which wouldn't be considered human-scale, like you describe, and can't really think of any at all.

Do you have any thoughts on some outliers as far as mythology goes?

Olympus et al are mildly set apart as being larger-scale.

Still lots of people-sized interactions.

Cthulhu?

That's the usual idea of "mix some animal features and make it bigger". It's as down to earth as it gets with monsters.

Hindu cosmology maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology I'd love to see a better example as well.

Spot on, and one god has been described as having symptoms of mental illness too.

I also wonder how many "prophets" in religion were actually suffering from paranoid schizophrenia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health_of_Jesus

And if you criticized this ridiculous mythology, you were persecuted and shunned.

Nice summary, I will steal this quote