No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.
All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.
If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
If horses had Gods, they would look like horses.
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...
Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.