According to Osho, ancient gods are poetic mirrors of humanity’s original pagan innocence—reverence for existence itself. They signify a stage before reason split life into right/wrong, guilt/sin. God is not a person but this living totality. Mythology points us back to living wholly; after losing simplicity through reason, we must consciously regain it—the mature, second innocence of undivided, total living.
Those old gods are stories showing how people once loved life as it is; the real “god” is life now, and growing up means forgetting that simplicity and then wisely finding it again.