Man has created gods in his own
likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be
in the same sad predicament. Thus the Greenlanders believed that a wind could
kill their most powerful god, and that he would certainly die if he touched a
dog. When they heard of the Christian God, they kept asking if he never died,
and being informed that he did not, they were much surprised, and said that he
must be a very great god indeed.
--From James Frazer's The Golden Bough, Ch. XXIV, "The Mortality of the Gods"
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