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Why do ancient Greek myths and stories embody humanitarian thoughts and secular thoughts?

Greek mythology is somewhat different from oriental mythology. The gods they created are not high above, but closer to the image of people. The gods in ancient Greek mythology have great power, but they also have human nature. For example, Zeus was portrayed as a great man with supreme power, and a successful politician, living among the gods of Olympus 12. In order to be closer to his personality, Zeus was also portrayed as a philanderer. Hera, his wife, was portrayed as a beautiful, dignified and elegant wife, but she was also given the image of jealousy, and she was deeply resentful of her husband's extramarital affairs. Whenever Hera caught a traitor, Zeus would handle it skillfully in other ways, instead of acting arbitrarily with supreme power. Besides Zeus and Hera, Greek mythology also gave Poseidon the image of anger, Ares' belligerence and hephaestus's skill. These gods are endowed with human characteristics. The images of these gods with personality are the reflection of the society at that time. Western society has always followed the democratic thought, and has been constantly improved, developed and stereotyped after thousands of years. China has always followed the feudal thought that the monarch is endowed by heaven and supreme, so all the gods he created are. Out-of-touch image, let the people have a kind of awe of the emperor, so that the emperor can better rule them, so when the people uprising, leaders will call themselves the son of heaven, such as Liu Bang's White Snake Uprising, Judy's night dream, Wei Zi's help, Hong Xiuquan's son of God and so on. When these people rule the people, they rule them as slaves. There is no democracy, no human rights and no humanitarianism. Compared with the west, China's thought clearly shows that the western thought can better reflect the humanitarian thought, and these thoughts can best be reflected in fairy tales, so fairy tales are the mapping of society, while Greek fairy tales reflect the humanitarian and democratic thoughts of the society at that time.