Gods who see everything derive from humans who watch each other

Evidence

It is easy to see how the idea of supernatural monitoring is rooted in the more ancient and mundane human preoccupation with social monitoring. If the notion of powerful and perceptive people watching is something people already intuitively accept, it is not a giant step from that notion to powerful and perceptive gods who see when no one else can. Nevertheless, omniscience that transcends physical, biological, and psychological limitations is a somewhat counterintuitive thought. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 103

Categorization

• XREF: Provides the cognitive-extension mechanism bridging ordinary social surveillance and divine omniscience — directly relevant to the reader’s analytical chain from Big Gods into the fumi-e dynamic. — connects to: An advanced alien observer functions as the big Other of the human species — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 627; Mental faculties enable gods to act as supernatural monitors of behavior — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 65