Why does God use the pronoun us in Genesis 1:26?

@James25 In the Bible and in other Jewish literature such as the Jewish Babylonian Talmud, only Jews are considered humans and men. Gentiles are called animals, beasts, swine, snakes, dogs, etc.

The Israelites, Hebrews, Jews were almost always under the control of one of the dominant empires - Egyptian, Assyrian, Hittite, Babylonian, Roman, etc. All of the emperors and pharaohs considered themselves to be gods. So, maybe a Babylonian emperor just wanted them to be his stooges?

It can be a major error to think that the fairytale is about a celestial deity instead of just a series of ancient lunatics who thought that they were really "gods" instead of just crazy homicidal maniacs.