There was the old northern couple who danced on the bones of the earth nine times and made nine pairs of men and women; and there were the Greek and his wife who threw stones out of their ark that changed to men; and the Hindu that saved the life of a fish, and whom the fish then saved by fastening his ship to his horn; and the South Sea fisherman who caught his hook in the water-god's hair and made him so angry that he drowned all the world except the offending fisherman.

Aren't they nearly as funny as the god who made one of his pair out of clay and one from a rib, and then became so angry with them that he must beget a son for them to sacrifice before he would forgive them?
Let's think of the pleasanter ones.

Do you know that hymn of the Veda?
--'If I go along trembling like a cloud, have mercy, Almighty, have mercy!' "'Through want of strength, thou strong and bright God, have I gone wrong.

Have mercy, Almighty, have mercy!' "And Buddha was a pleasant soul, Nance--with stuff in him, too--born a prince, yet leaving his palace to be poor and to study the ways of wisdom, until enlightenment came to him sitting under his Bo tree.

He said faith was the best wealth here.