What do you think of ideas regarding machine spirits, gods of engineering and machines, and religious rituals for respecting and requesting the function of a machine?

Especially if you have real world education and experience with engineering, knowledge from or as technicians and engineers, computer maintenance, infrastructure construction and maintenance, coders, etc.

Earlier today, I watched an \[HFY video where someone made a story about a human engineer joining a spacecrew of different species and somehow spreading a religious idea to the other crew members where they had a shrine and referred to the ship as she and even their "Mistress"\](https://youtu.be/AtL7mOXYOMU?si=z2Hi\_qwjJ\_nRCSaC), and the machines ran better than under previous engineers. I also saw another video before that with a supposedly real incident where a \[RADAR system would not work without a box containing the bones of a sacrificed animal attached to it.\](https://youtu.be/cA1fbnRhuS8?si=9q9WsmtmdC\_rBEU0)

I had heard technicians are the most fervent believers in this, which I find intriguing since I'm studying electrical engineering and always felt like there was something else happening. I think my dad told me not to let my computers know I was doing work or they would stop working, and that idea has never left me over years.

I now wonder how that could go in a scifi or fantasy world. I am aware of Warhammer 40k having the Adeptus Mechanicus. I had also wondered how this could play out in my own world. I wanted to see how I could add a god of engineering (I keep thinking of the Roman god of hinges). My world is inspired by the bronze and iron age while having a transition period with the introduction of new machinery to a region that still has major importance placed into priests, temples and gods. I have some ideas for a variant of my world with magitech where magic, even that given by gods, is integrated in robots and computers, and even physical avatars controlled by gods. How would people react to such creations? Would people start worshipping these unfathomable creations like fire breathing trains and airships travelling the domains of the gods? What about religions inspired by animism where there could be (or are) spirits in anything, likely including these machines? Where could this go with the introduction of AIs where the machine can now think and respond? What happens if they start giving vehicles and other machines animalistic or even humanoid forms? (Don't let them see the living machines part of the internet. xD) What would this be like for guilds and companies building these machines like automobiles, radios and steam trains?

What could be the interactions regarding machines, spirits, priests, temples and deities, especially active deities who frequently interact with the mortal world? What would be the implications of a spirit being able to possess or take the form of a machine (like a wandering spirit taking control of an engine or textile spinner, or sightings of a ghost car wandering rural streets in a certain territory)?

Have you ever considered these kinds of ideas before in worldbuilding? Are there any examples in your worlds? How did you react to seeing such examples in other worlds (I know the Adeptus Mechanicus is probably one of the biggest and well known forms/examples of this idea)?