For xenophanes had noticed the fossil remains of sea-creatures embedded in the earth , and guessed that perhaps the world periodically dried up , returning to its original muddy state , trapping and preserving the earth 's creatures as it did so before reversal of the process .
Xenophanes if shit had a god , god would look like shit .
色诺芬尼:如果大便信上帝的话,那上帝看起来就会像大便。
In one of the earliest known expressions of cultural relativism , xenophanes remarked that homer 's gods were simply a reflection of homerian culture .
作为一种已知最早的对于文化相对论的表述,色诺芬尼认为:荷马的神只是荷马式的文化的一种简单的反应。
Homer 's gods , xenophanes complained , had all the immoral and disgraceful traits of flawed human beings and should hardly be the object of veneration .