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In Genesis 8: 20-21, we read:
>“And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.”
In the Genesis account, the God of Noah was appeased through sacrifice, a quality inherent of a deceased ancestral spirit. God in the mind of ancient man was not the creator of the universe, but the title of either, an enlightened human being, a force of influence found in nature, a genii, or an ancestral spirit who worked in the invisible realms on behalf of his descendants.