Although the interpretation that the cursed immortal life of the sailor is a cursed state of penance for his disrespect for one of God's creatures could certainly be given, given the Coleridge's clear vested interest in denying existence If we explain the supernatural as attributed to the divine, it is more likely that the sailor is governed by an older and, so to speak, more holistic force of the God of Christianity. The sailor's motivation behind killing the Albatross is admittedly rather ambiguous as Coleridge seems to give little credence to the event itself in the grand scheme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. I interpret the sailor's subtextual motivations not as an effort on Coleridge's part to display an example of despising God, but rather as a moment of reckless assertion of humanity's dominance over the natural world. This recalls Thomas Burnet's philosophies of Archaeologiae philosophicae in which it is suggested that the writing, publication, and widespread popularity of the Bible is an effort by humanity to assert dominion over the unknown through the creation of a Creation mythology. Later in The Rime, when the Mariner is surrounded