Why do people look up when talking to God?
The earliest known deity (talking from an archaeological not confessional perspective) was unearthed in the earliest known writings (Uruk IV) It was the symbol of a star. We know from later Sumerian writings that the prefix of a star in front of a name means it’s the name of a deity. In these the oldest writings ever discovered however the star has no name next to it. In ancient Hebrew, the word for heaven is the same for the word for sky (haššämaºyim in Gen 1) This link between heaven and sky continued into ancient Greek where the word ouranos means both heaven and sky. These languages formed the basis for our own language English (though several other languages like Latin which also has the same word for heaven and sky (aether) but this is just so that you know the connection has persisted through the language structure and still exists in modern English, we still say look to the heavens when we mean dream big. There is a well used astronomical website called heavens above. Generally
