This piece was created by Grieve early in his life when he was seeking his own understanding of how religion and spirituality transmit actuality. It is based on the work of the ancient Greek philosopher, Xenophanes of Colophon (Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος) (570 – c. 478 BCE).  Xenophane is a pre-Socratic philosopher, theologian, poet, and of particular importance for Grieve, a critic of religious polytheism. Xenophanes’s writings cast doubt on Greek myths which portray the gods as petty and immoral and cite the fact that human beings create gods in their own image. Xenophanes' surviving writings display a skepticism that became more commonly expressed during the following fourth century BCE. He is quoted in Clement of Alexandria to argue against the conception of gods as fundamentally anthropomorphic. He satirized traditional Greek religious views of his time as human projections, and aimed his critique at the polytheistic religious views of earlier Greek poets and of his own contemporaries: “Homer and Hesiod,” one fragment states, “have attributed to the gods all sorts of things that are matters of reproach and censure among men: theft, adultery, and mutual deception.”