The Golden Rule should just be "Be nice!"

On Roatan Island, off the coast of Honduras, settled by peoples from Jamaica and Grand Cayman, there is an obeah practice of reciting certain Old Testament psalms while thinking about the person you wish to bring bad luck upon; this is the use of the Bible as a magical fetish. Of course with the full realization of the coded nature of the Torah, as popularized by the smash book "The Bible Code", and the widespread belief of many of our 21st century contemporaries of the literal truth of The King James's Version, including the mistranslations, and such famous contradictions as the conflicting genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke, perhaps the belief in Bible magick is not so strange. Every unscientific culture knows the world is permeated by magic, in the most decentralized every mountain or spring or even tree has an associated spirit.
In the Homeric world, a world of city-states, a world with social roles and stratifications, with trades and guilds, there is a group of gods who have some independence of action, who exemplify some social modeling which would have been familiar to the people of that day.