What is the importance of the Sky in the nonfiction book, The World of Myth?

In all myths, the Sky is seen as the masculine creative principle, personified as God, Heaven, the Father, or one of many other similar incarnations. It is a widely-held belief that the Sky is the Father of all Creation, while the Earth is the Mother.

There are many reasons why the Sky is considered to be the home of Creator of the Universe and the heavens. Analysts believe that many ancient cultures worshiped nature as well as the divine spirit, which was often revealed to them through natural occurrences such as floods, constellations, the sun and moon, and thunder and lightning. As these cultures did not have significant scientific knowledge to understand the nature of the elements, it was assumed that these things were sent by the Creator.

It is common that the Sky, and therefore the Creator, is masculine. The reason for this has many roots. Regardless, it is a common theme that the Creator married the Great Mother in order to unite the temporal and eternal and to create humankind.