Monotheistic cults seek a single answer to all questions, and to a religious temperament E₈ is the great temptress. My own excursion into invariances beyond length and volume yielded no physical insights. Nature is too rich to follow a single tune; why should it care that all we know today is a bit of differential geometry? It presents us with so many questions more fundamental and pressing than whether E₈ is the mother or the graveyard of theories.