He wasn't afraid of the sky, but of the earth in which he dreamt every night of falling.
He knew no angels, no devils, He was in a perfect balance between heaven and hell, stranded upside down, in a reversed world, waiting for all things to happen or to end.
He was incinerated.
He then was stuffed inside some crackers and got to fill the sky one more time with his explosive personality on July 4th, before falling on everybody and then into the ground he so much feared and hated.