While this anthropopathic approach enjoys full citizenship in the realms of art, literature, and mythology it makes for poor science.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

The conception of these deities was anthropopathic, in their motives and passions they were more powerful and more perfect men, they had a human body and a human countenance, human thoughts and feelings, they resided in the clouds or on a high mountain; they dwelt in a heavenly palace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Anthropomorphic and anthropopathic expressions are avoided by roundabout expressions or in other ways; obscure Hebrew words are often taken without change into the text; proper names are frequently interpreted, as Shinar-Babylon, Ishmaelites-Arabs; for figurative expressions are substituted the corresponding literal ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference