The gods did riot: enrich man with a knowledge of all things from the beginning of life. Yet man seeks, and in time invents what may be better. - Xenophanes

Ethiopians say that their gods are snubnosed and black
Thracians that they are pale and red-haired.

But if cattle and horses and lions had hands
or could paint with their hands and create works such as men do,
horses like horses and cattle like cattle
also would depict the gods' shapes and make their bodies
of such a sort as the form they themselves have.

One god there is, in no way like mortal creatures either in bodily form or in the thought of his mind. The whole of him sees, the whole of him thinks, the whole of him hears. He stays always motionless in the same place; it is not fitting that he should move about now this way, now that.