"Prayer at the Alter of K'dapt" "During the Man-Kzin wars some of the Kzinti could not understand how the puny humans could keep on tbeating the Kzinti empire. A sect arose called th K'daptist who believed that God created Man in his own image. They would wear masks made from human skin in an attempt to fool God into giving them a victory" From Niven's Ringworld universe, if you haven't read them they're great books. All Bryce, terrains, lattices and metaballs.....