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The Beasts God
There was an ancient philosopher - the sophist
Gorgias perhaps? I don't remember very well -
that insisted that humans have modeled their
gods after themselves and said that
"if amimals have gods they will have their looks too,
i.e. the gods of horses will be horse-like etc."
Living in a city for the first thirty years of my life,
and never having seen a horse up close, I could see sense
in those words. But for several years now I live an island
life on a small Aegean island. There I have had my chance
to meet, horses, donkeys, mules, goats, cows, sheep and
fish in various forms and sizes, form point blank, in their
enviroment. Seeing the animals and living in daily contact
with them made me observe them and from this experience a
startling realization emerged: If the animals have a god,
this god must look human...
Regards
Christos Konstas
