Strange things happen at the origins of religions:
For example,
Abraham takes his son to a Mountain In order to ****** him To prove how badass his faith in God is
Or, Jesus tell his his followers to eat him Before he gets pinned naked in public To a wooden cross.
Or, The Buddha fasts so intensely and persistently while seeking enlightenment That he can put his finger in his belly button And touch his backbone
Or, Joseph Smith claims to find gold tablets in the hills of New York from the Angel Moroni, marries more than 90 women, bangs a bunch of teenage girls, lies, cheats, steals, gets murdered by a mob and claims Jesus Christ came to Utah after his death
Or, Mohammed believes the angel Gabriel appears to him in a Cave and a few decades later Muslim armies are tearing through North Africa all the way up into Spain and France.
Or, Martin Luther is sitting literally in the outhouse and while straining believes the Holy Spirit (whatever that is) reveals to him the founding principles of the Protestant Reformation.
Some crazy ****.
Or,
Crossing the Baltic young sons son Exoplanets!
P.S. See also American Cosmic: UFOs, religion, and technology by Diana Walsh Pasulka