Negotiation

So consider that you're an all powerful deity laying down the law for your subjects. Now then consider that one group, or 'tribe' of these subjects decides to try and negotiate with you. You're all fucking powerful, you don't need to negotiate, but still you're kind of amused, so you figure, whe the heck, and decide to sit down at the table with them.

Eventually what you get is a whole set of people with 8 nights of celebration instead of 1 Christmas day. And Yom Kippur. One freakin' day of fasting to atone all your sins for the year. Catholics get 40 days of Lent and only 1 day of Christmas celebration and Jews get eight nights of partying for only one day of atonement. We (and I mean this loosely as 'anyone who needs to bargain with the man' can learn a lot from the Jews. The next time I need to get my salary or contract negotiated I'm totally get a Jew to do it.