Why did god create evil?

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So those earliest people who created mythological or legendary traditions weren't trying to explain reality (unless you want to propose cave philosophers)? Wouldn't that rule out your hypothesis as well?

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Culture is memory!
Nobody “creates” tradition.
Without realizing it, you are depriving humanity of its past.
Ancient people were gathering round the fireplace telling the stories they knew from grandma and grandpa. That’s what myth and legend is.
Have you heard of Geomythology? In August 2004, the 32nd International Geological Congress held a session on "Myth and Geology", which resulted in the first peer-reviewed collection of papers on the subject (2007).

People create gods that behave like people. People in unrelated cultures are still people, and very similar. The other three might have something to do with the fact that we're people as well, prone to do strange things for shoddy reasons.

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Do you know of any two tribes, peoples or nations having created and wearing identical clothing?
Of any two poets having written the same poem?
Of any two musicians having composed the same melody?
Of any two authors having written the same story?
Of any two scientists having created the same theory at the same time or of two inventors having accomplished the same invention?
They all invented gods and giants but not the wheel!!

Your argument cannot be taken seriously and although people do strange things for shoddy reasons, as you said, the fact that people all over the earth were deforming artificially the skulls of their infants in the same way for thousands of years, deserves a better explanation.

I'd also like to mention that there are differences as well as similarities between pantheons, vast differences, also completely in line with the situation between people of dissimilar cultures. You seem intent on ignoring the differences and focus only on the similarities. Even then, you may be prone to interpreting things into being similar when they are not.

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Pantheons are created by theologians and are not worth studying. It is the myths on which the pantheons stand that count and they are all similar: gods created people imperfectly, had to destroy them and try again until people could take no more revolted and expelled gods who found refuge in the sky!!

Again, scientology, cargo cults. You seem to like the egyptian texts very much, and in each of these conversations you've argued that you have found a way to make all religions somehow equivalent to these texts.

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The point is to find out how did it happen and humanity was originally infected with the idea of the gods. Scientology, cargo cults, Shamanism and what not, are symptoms of the infection.

Going further you give a hypothesis (supported by your love of these texts and how many ways you can interpret other myths to be so similar) based on an actual and singular event in each and every case. Perhaps the funerary texts are just fanciful stories. What then?

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The funerary texts contain unknown details of the story of the gods because they were written almost two thousand years before Homer recorded the myths of the Greeks and the information they provide is no different from the information found in the texts of the cuneiform script.
As for Zeitgeist, yes, we have here a mini egyptological Zeitgeist. For decades the translators of the Egyptian language were informing the scientific community that the ancient Egyptians believed that the souls were building houses, were having their own neighborhoods and homes, that they were acting as defense witnesses during judgment and a lot of similar nonsense. Now the souls disappeared from their translations. What is one bound to think of that?