To worship the gods appears to be a form of supplication and pleading: Lordy, Lordy, look how I worship, look how I love you, please look after me and mine, please reward your faithful servant.
That's probably most of it. But there is also the desire to acknowledge the possibility of the existence of entities (or at least one entity) who are so far advanced on the evolutionary scale that their intellect and abilities would seem to us godlike and magical. I see no problem with a nod of the noggin and a slight trembling in the knees at the thought of such beings. In other words, worship may not ONLY be rooted in self abnegation, lack of esteem, paucity of self worth, but also rooted in fairness: a willful acknowledgment that there is something alive, living beyond our senses, and far beyond our intellect, and that the
magnitude of the universe makes this virtually certain.
