Cultural Parallax
My sorry ass has had its fair share of playing around with those "Parallax Wallpapers" on them Android phones throughout the years. But it wasn't until right now that I realized I could've used the same word to express what I had always been seeing looking out of the train's window, where it felt like the big mountain at the long distance was following along with the train while the objects closer would fall behind.
Depending on how farther we are from something, the more it seems to follow us along. This observation seems unintuitive without context. But allow me to do so anyway.
Take our cultures. Across our cultures, and the divine figures we worship across the board, the longer it has been since those divine figures were here, the older the stories, the more eternal and magical they appear to be. It might be that it's not that we don't have divine figures alive today, but that they're too close to us for us to notice them. It could also mean that we are more prone to missing the divine in the people very close to us as we pass right past them. As someone once said, 'love thy neighbor.'