The basic answer has been around since ignorant primitive tribes thought their god threw lightning at them because they did something wrong. It has only been changed over the years through various religions.
This is a bad anthropology. At least dress it up a bit by saying that "primitive" men (whom we have never seen) personified the "forces" of nature. As the old Indian in "Little Big Man" put it, you think that everything is dead, while the "primitives" thought everything was alive. Vitalism, which was an important school of philosphy at the turn of the last century, may not have been "true" but it understood ancient paganism. You seem not to.