If the sun is conscious, that could explain why humanity believes in a powerful god that can, eg, send floods.

Perhaps the flood was caused by a coronal mass ejection that boiled a section of the ocean, causing extreme rains in a valley region.

Let's imagine that the consciousness field of the sun encompasses all of our minds.. so thinking about it might let us talk to it. So prayer could be real too. They can probably talk to us too, if they want to. A form of stellar transcranial magnetic simulation.

Pov: Sun Cults now have a scientific basis, baby! Let's try to make mental contact with the sun!