(April 28, 2013 at 5:53 pm)whateverist Wrote:(April 28, 2013 at 5:36 pm)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote: According to Genesis a god need only know the difference between good and evil and live forever -- tale of the two trees.
Is a god required to know it is a god? Must it have any self-awareness at all?
God only knows whether god even knows what 'he' is. You'd think one of us would know since most likely it was an idea first conceived by a human.
I think I'll just have to leave the asterisk affixed to 'god(s)'*. Whatever it may mean, don't any one ask me if I believe in this black box thingy. I have no idea what we are even talking about.
If I have it right one can group the gods are superhuman but still human-like with families and such with mainly the spread of agriculture. That also follows the Aryan language group with the addition the lower Egypt images of the gods. The upper Egypt closest to sub-Saharan Africa had mainly the animal images while lower gave people animal heads. Similarly India has a set of people looking gods and a ton of animal gods. If I can find evidence the people looking gods originated in the northwest/Pakistan region then there is a connection to the Indo part of Indo-European. It is sort of a neat grouping.
That doesn't answer the mail as to first decided there were our type of gods but it does narrow the list of suspects.
