The Superheroes of Yesteryear

Thousands of years ago, in the Age of Ignorance that lasted into the Bronze Age and Iron Age and even into today (look at the fundamentalists who believe every word in the Bible to be true), our ancestors may have lacked science but they did have storytellers, imaginative storytellers who rivaled Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (the creators of Superman), Stan Lee, Alan Moore and many others. These storytellers created the fictional superheroes of their day with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men but, in their nescience, they did not call them superheroes but gods. Some of these ancient gods are now correctly called superheroes like Thor and his fellow Asgardians. Will the comic book heroes of today be thought to be our gods millennia from now? And when will more of us realize that that's all there was to the "gods" of yesteryear? When will we grow up?