"But if oxen (and horses) and lions ... could draw with hands and create works of art like those made by men, horses would draw pictures of gods like horses, and oxen of gods like oxen . . . . Aethiopians have gods with snub noses and black hair, Thracians have gods with grey eyes and red hair."
Xenophanes, quoted in Stewart Guthrie, Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 179.
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