Advent Calendar 2.

Open the window today and there's gravity.  Oh yeah - gravity.   Pulled trillions of pieces of matter together, forming Earth and, eventually, us.

I wonder why gravity was never a god.  Certainly the ancient god-designers knew that something was keeping them stuck to the earth.  Something made dropped things go down and not up.  But I haven't found Gravity, God of the Assembly of the Universe (although, I'll admit, I haven't looked).  Closest I've heard is Hawking's' statement that gravity, not god, made the universe.  Which sounds wrong.  Seems to me that either God made the universe - by definition, really - or no one did.

Gravitas is a Roman virtue, not a god.  It means, uh, gravitas.  Others are pietas and dignitas.  Man, we could use more of all three.