I had not really thought about how Sci-Fi and the Sacred might interact for better or worse. It’s true that in my Dangerous Gifts series, a Pagan Prussian Princess restores the Holy Roman Empire, but that’s a subplot and it only works in a particular 1811 version of a Regency Romance Evil Vacation world run by an Evil Wizard who has been trapped into being somewhat Good. So that’s not really a very good example, though it does make me wonder about the overall place of some forms of the sacred in my work and elsewhere in the worlds of various genres
There are other more oblique forms of some kinds of references to sacred things. For example, the Old Kingdom lurks at the heart of what is left of the wrecked universe that sort of survives in the Cosmic Flow. There is the House of Reflection which seems to believe in the potential goodness of all things (as opposed to the Old Kingdom which seems to rely more on the potential badness of all things). Again, maybe not the clearest evocation of the sacred you are likely to find even in Sci-Fi or it nearest neighbors in sword and sorcery, where there a plenty of temples and evil gods and whatnot.
Which reminds me that here and here my stories do have a few divine beings – gods and goddesses, nymphs, demons and imps oh and one out-of-control AI who more or less acts as a deity of some kind. That’s what you get in stories. And these beings switch back-and-forth: goddess to nymph, demon to natural man etc. Perhaps more polymorphous than the sacred usually is.
Well, I sign off for now noting the image of Mount Taylor at the top of the post, a sacred mountain and not quite as polymorphous as the sacred seems to be in my stories.