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People teach Morals to the gods
As with the earliest people, morals among the gods were not formalized, if they exist at all. The gods always had room to spread out, as they were not confined to 3- or 4-space; even after the stars bound the gods in space, only at galaxy cores did they rub shoulders, and that was by choice.
There is some idea of right and wrong as soon as Baod swallows his first soul; arguments of morals are to some degree the battle that continues amongst the gods after the stalemate imposed by Mehr with the birth of Coera.
But it was people that taught morals to the gods. The earliest people also had room to spread, but as people settled into agricultural societies, and then into cities, they had to devise rules that promoted stability and the greatest success for the largest number of people. This was not always or even usually a conscious goal, but, like evolution's survival of the fittest, it was a pattern underlying the development. As Patar-Ori and his cotery led forth the human race from the fauna of Coera, the elf-gods began to observe, along with poetry and mathematics, a beauty to the moral codes of humanity, and helped the humans to develop them more formally and thoroughly.
As Patar-Ori and his godlings give new revelations to their peoples, they incorporate the morals they themselves learned from the people.
There is some idea of right and wrong as soon as Baod swallows his first soul; arguments of morals are to some degree the battle that continues amongst the gods after the stalemate imposed by Mehr with the birth of Coera.
But it was people that taught morals to the gods. The earliest people also had room to spread, but as people settled into agricultural societies, and then into cities, they had to devise rules that promoted stability and the greatest success for the largest number of people. This was not always or even usually a conscious goal, but, like evolution's survival of the fittest, it was a pattern underlying the development. As Patar-Ori and his cotery led forth the human race from the fauna of Coera, the elf-gods began to observe, along with poetry and mathematics, a beauty to the moral codes of humanity, and helped the humans to develop them more formally and thoroughly.
As Patar-Ori and his godlings give new revelations to their peoples, they incorporate the morals they themselves learned from the people.
// posted by Wray Davis @ 9:57 PM 
