Cerritos : Art 100 Tth : Lectures

Unlike food, reproduction, and shelter, religion does not serve an immediate physical need. However, throughout time and place, humans have strived to visualize the universal forces of life and death that are ultimately out of their control. Images of Gods and Goddesses have taken on many divergent visual manifestations. In some religions, divine beings are presented with human traits, in others they are anthropormophic translations of natural forces, and in yet others, the imaging of spiritual beings is strictly forbidden.