You Shall Not Have Cult Images

It took centuries to get rid of the cult statues of your gods. So when you don't have temples and places in which you say your deity dwells, then you turn to sacred texts. And so those texts almost become, they've replaced little cult statues. These are the manifestations of divine presence now, not cult statues. But yeah, that commandment about you shall not have cult images looks to be a slightly later insertion into earlier forms of the 10 commandments. That is Zeus's command. It's the entrance from history hit. My interest in Hughes, your host, and every month on the podcast, we're taking a deep dive into the Olympian gods. Sing muses.