The Gods Use Mortals as Firewood, I Use the Gods to Make Iron

At the beginning of the birth of the universe, there was a set of "old rules" - how fast things go, how heavy the sky is, how time goes, which way fire burns, and what one thing is connected to. In the ancient times, the parasitic civilizations of the upper dimension locked this old set of rules into their respective "cores of authority" (commonly known to mortals as: Godhead) through the "Heaven Stealing Ceremony".