People always say, "You played such a strong character. " I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and she was a suicidal mess. I said, "She's not strong at all; she's incredibly weak. " But "strong" to people means "real. " It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.
The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.