A popular argument against the existence of God is what some call
divine hiddenness: «If God exists, why doesn't he make his existence more obvious, such that it could not be doubted?»
An object such as, for instance, a silver votive vessel comes into being not only by the interplay between the dark
hiddenness of the earth and the radiant openness of the heavens — hidden ores brought up to shine in the light of day — but by the reverently poetic approach of mortals toward the gods and by the lordly approach of the gods toward mortals, out of the hidden realm of the
divine, announcing themselves in the powers of nature.