Observation About Gods and Men

 An observation.

One wonders if the “gods” are to men what men are to the beasts. After all, to other life on Earth, we are akin to gods of a sort (or at least devils). We have advantages of intelligence, foresight, planning, tool use and inventiveness, organization, fine-grained manual dexterity, etc. but we are inferior in, say, strength, speed, ferocity, fecundity, etc. (we can make inter-racial comparisons of like kind as well, but that’s another story).

So, perhaps “gods” have the same strengths and weaknesses vis-à-vis us – greater intelligence and other “higher” attributes, but lacking certain of the “human” traits that would rank us closer to animals compared to the “gods.” Traditionally, the “gods” have been portrayed a superior to man in every way, including the physical; perhaps that is not accurate?