Humanity has been busy throughout its history, supplicating, bowing down, and engaging in diverse acts of worship. In the annals of religious observance, however, people have codified worship of many false gods. Worship of the sun was quite common. An Egyptian cult deified the sun as Ra, ruler of the heavens, and the sun figured centrally in Babylonian and some Asian religious cults. For the Aztecs, Tonatiuh was the sun god, and demanded human sacrifice as a demonstration of their esteem and gratitude or else the sun would refuse to provide its warmth and energy to earth. But the Aztecs, like many cultures, had a multitude of gods in their pantheon – gods of creation, nature gods, gods of fertility, gods of death, and many others. Many cultures deified their emperors, seeing them as living gods on earth. The cult of Devaraja, the God King, was an ancient state religion in Cambodia. The story of the Egyptian Pharaoh typifies the worship of human leaders. In telling the story of Moses going to Pharaoh, the Quran says, “When Moses came to them with Our clear signs, they said, ‘This is nothing but spellbinding eloquence devised: never did we hear this among our forefathers!’ And Moses replied, ‘My Sustainer knows best as to who comes with guidance from Him, and to whom the future belongs! Verily, never will evildoers attain to a happy state!’ Whereupon Pharaoh said, ‘O Chiefs! No god do I know for you but myself…” (28:36-38).