The Ire of the Gods?

Well... A culture so advanced and yet in need to be worshiped by a lesser developed culture/species... That is a serious problem with the way they see themselves, but again possible, but cliche as such was a theme on some sceince fiction stories from the 40's and 50's, yet reused by Stargate franchise with a good deal of success by the way. Possible but I hope is nothing like that...and on another tone, we have only David's words to follow upon that...we might see later that David misinterpreted or gave his version of something different...we might see later that David lied upon what he discovered on that ship's database...

My views exactly, but it also has to do with: the changing of cultures over time and after the leader/head is killed, the Engineers' hatred for empires in general, expansionism of empires, taking over territory through war etc. This becoming a danger to the Engineers if we unite under chaotic leaders. Going from kingdoms with multiple colonies, to an Empire with multiple colonies, in the company's case, when the headless Weyland kingdom is joined with the Yutani kingdom that controls the other half of the Earth at this time. So we'll continue to piss them off.

My take is if indeed the Engineers are not simply younger versions of the Elders thus the last Engineer and Sacrificial Engineers are to the Elder like Holloway and Janek to Weyland. But more like David was to Weyland. We see these Elders give a younger more stocky built Engineer the substance in a Ritual Sacrifice the Sacrificial Engineer was given this TASK by the Elders and thus the Elders may have created the Engineers in their image to perform such tasks. They are created to be servants and subservient to the greater Agenda of the Elders. I think that a fraction of Engineers was then given the task to Tera-Form a outpost that they can monitor Earth from...... These Engineers may have started to despise the role they have in the Hierarchy and they then decided to create Mankind against the will of the Elders and maybe their knowledge as well. They created us so that we could then be subservient to them. So they may have created us for the same Reason Weyland Created David and indeed the same reason the Elders created the Engineers. Then just as their was a point when the Engineers felt why should they have to be subservient to the Elders why should they be consider less important. Mankind started to feel and act the same way towards the Engineers. We started to not worship them, we started to be less subservient we started to do things that offended them and breaking rules they set for us. Funny enough David started to show such a attitude towards his creator Weyland and also the other crew, he started to think why should he be subservient to Humans. Just because they created him why should he be their servant when he looks like them and he is vastly superior in many ways. David has no soul....... but he had shown many times that he has evolved to have emotions and make decisions for himself and his own Agenda.