“Face of Stone” / Memorable Fancies #1513

[“At a more remote period, the Greeks worshipped uncarved stones.” – Pausanias]

“These raw stones,” I told him, “pulled from the earth or found at the base of a cliff – these are images of the gods.”

“But,” he said, “I always thought that the gods looked pretty much like us – don’t they? If they didn’t, how could we worship them?”

I stared at him with a face of stone.