Divine Roles

Divine Roles Cultures have created a way to have many myths or stories for generations. One of the things that we see is that many stories are being told to upcoming generations regardless if they are real or not they instill morals and values in children this is the way many cultures have been doing it for centuries. An example I can use is that my father or my grandmother their stories or myths have taught me things in life. Most of the tales told by them always come up at the end teaching me a valuable story. I believe know that I am older I have to realize that these stories play a big role in my everyday decisions. Also the invention of religions comes about “due to humankind's desire to explain the unexplainable and to create the illusion that we have control over reality” (para.1). Similar questions in every culture lead to similar mythological answers. These myths involve supernatural beings who can be “propitiated in attempts to mitigate the harm that befalls us or to give us what we want” (para.15). I think from the perspective of trying to improve the pain of existence, religions make sense. In the other hand from a logical standpoint they are unsound. I think this because early cultures worshiped things in nature and named them in their own language. There are many examples, a couple of which are . . . God of the Sea: Roman - Neptune, Greek – Poseidon, God of the Sun: Greek - Helios, Egyptian - Ra lots of examples in Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Scandinavian, Meso-American, etc. comes down to an attempt to explain the world around them in the simplest terms by attributing a separate God to each things they were trying to explain.

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