Yes they did, made in god's image.
not necessarily, since 'likeness' does not have to mean precisely modelled from.
Genesis 1;26
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness..."
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/genesis/1-26.htm then followed 'mankind 2.0' belly button version, with the natural birth of Cain.
"our likeness"??
How many gods were there, and was one named Asherah?
how many gods or their descendents lived up on top of mt olympus?
we humans have struggled for some 2000 years to reduce the number of gods to a more manageable number.
astarte was a good one too. the patriarchs of the hebrew tradition ran an organized system to kill off the goddess religion.
i just hate it when the ancient gods were involved in competition because of their various followers. and noone had a good camera.
