One of the things that continues to be fascinating to me is how Marius really straddles the line of superstition, logic, athiesm, and polytheism.
See here, how Marius insists none of his impulses were based in a function of religion, but the terms used around TWMBK and the superstition he can't help be utilize makes it seem as if he views it to be supernatural, rather than natural (like himself. He is a vampire, but doesn't do much to make himself comparable to other vampires "the old GODS," or change their language to be less superstitious.)
Marius describes a touch of religious trauma, but he describes it as "nothing but superstition." To him, Akasha and Enkil as religious objects are NOT for worship, they are for POWER and CONTROL.