"The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair."

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If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.

— Xenophanes