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GodsSince the beginning of time man has believe in higher powers. People, especially during ancient times, believed these higher powers had influences in our everyday lives. During this time many stories, mostly pertaining to the religion practiced at the time, have been told and passed down in texts about these higher beings, or gods. People in the Greek era wrote texts like The Odyssey and The Iliad to try to explain how life was governed by multiple deities, while texts like Genesis, written by Christians expressed a monotheistic higher power. Theses two different kinds of texts share similarities and differences with each other in explanation of higher powers, especially in their roles, characteristics, views, and interaction between people and their respective gods.Greek mythologies like The Iliad and The Odyssey portrayed the roles of the gods similarly to modern-day imperfect politicians. Just like in modern government, Greek gods held many different positions, with their own......

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