Thetata Ufsisto

The Thetata Ufsisto (plene spelling: ), often translated Most High God, was the monotheistic deity according to the school of Kinamina theologians, who rejected the conventional belief system that the sky, earth, and other heavenly bodies were gods in their own right.

Origin

It seems the theology of Thetata Ufsisto is based on a single line in Didaskalic discourse of the 8th century BCE, found in D51.70

The remotest godhead is the source of all blessings nearest at hand

ϑitatā upšištō zəniϑō pāϑām xšrištam hōštauuām

The term "remotest godhead" is ϑitatā upšištō in Northian. ϑitatā generally means the quality or state of being a god, while upšištō can mean either "farthest" or "highest". The gereral meaning of this phrase D51.70 seems to celebrate the ubiquity and accessibility of the blessings of divinity, yet divinity itself seems irretrievably far away, both in physical distance and theoretical mystery. As such, for D51.70, virtually authorities hold that the word upšištō must be glossed as "farthest" to contrast with "nearest at hand", rather than "highest" as the Kinamina school made doctrinal.

But the Kinamina theology school reinterpreted this phrase and concluded that the incorporeal quality of being a god (the godhead) was the creator of the blessings, which Kinaminans thought represented the hitherto deified elements.