The Gods

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This paper analyzes the creation of humans by gods and how they are portrayed in religions and myths. It studies 'Genesis' and 'Popul Vuh' and analyzes excerpts from them discussing the forming of the Mayans by the gods. It concludes that truth is dangerous to the gods according the the examples of the Jewish people and the Mayans and the way the gods treated them.

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"Why should truth be so dangerous to the gods? Why should knowledge of the truth be so threatening to those who inhabit the heavens? We do not know this, and yet it must be true, for one of the similarities in many creation myths " drawn from cultures very distant from one another " is the idea that while the gods initially make humans who are wise and even omniscient, afterwards they change their creations so that humans are limited in their knowledge, in their ability to divine the truth. The gods create us in their own image, at least to the extent that we are wise like they are, and then they punish us for bearing the same attributes that they themselves carry."

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