Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods everything which brings shame and reproach among men: theft, adultery and fraud.
But mortal men imagine that gods are begotten, and that they have human dress and speech and shape.
If oxen or horses or lions had hands to draw with and to make works of art as men do, then horses would draw the forms of gods as horses, oxen like oxen, and they would make their gods' bodies similar to the bodily shape that they themselves each had.
The Ethiopians say their gods are snub-nosed and black-skinned, the Thracians that they are blue-eyed and red-headed.
Truly the gods have not revealed to mortals all things from the beginning; but mortals by long seeking discover what is better.
Xenophanes of Colophon
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