They say some gods have too much power; I happen to agree. There are certain gods who, in my honest opinion, don’t deserve nearly as much power as they have. Take my younger brother, Zeus, for example. He takes almost everything he has for granted! He honestly believes that anything he wants is his to take, and no one can stop him. Quite frankly, everybody else is too frightened to just stand up to him and say, “No, you can’t do that!” Anyone who disobeys him experiences his wrath. Even when he ends up being wrong, others have to suffer for his own stupidity. No one can stand up to his great power.
I remember when my poor nephew Hephaestus sided with sister Hera during an argument with her incredibly immature husband Zeus. Zeus became so angry that he took Hephaestus by his legs and literally threw him off of Mount Olympus. He behaved as if the poor smith was a discus! My goodness, the miserable guy fell for a whole day, until he landed on Lemnos with a crash so hard, the island itself shook! After that, the poor boy would never be able to walk normally again. From then on, he suffered from a terrible limp, and his walk was completely unstable.
Why does Zeus have the right to do that? Even if he disagrees with someone, he shouldn’t be able to destroy their lives so easily. And Zeus is not the only god that wields too much power. My niece, Athena, is just as bad!
I absolutely can not stand Athena! She always tries to undermine everything I do. Unfortunately for me, I can’t really do anything about her because she is Zeus’s daughter, and “ickle daddy’s little precious girl”. Zeus favors her far too much, and that bias gets in the way of fair judgment. He does just about anything that Athena asks him to. When I was in Ethiopia they went behind my back and instructed poor lonely Calypso to release the awful Odysseus. They did not even spare a moment to consider my poor Cyclops son Polyphemus. who had been blinded by that scoundrel from Ithaca.
Now, I know that not everyone hates Zeus and Athena, but if there is a god that no one likes, it is Ares. Ares, the god of war, is bad news! I don’t know why we granted him the power to cause war wherever he goes. As gods we strive for harmony, justice and peace. Ares goes around and ruins everything. He causes devastation in the most peaceful places. Wherever he is, terror follows. Why should we let him have that power? He is only causing us more problems!And we, as fellow gods, do nothing to stop him.
Another god we don’t stop is my brother Hades. The god of the underworld has far too much control over the dead. Sometimes, certain people end up unjustly dead. If an innocent child dies, why shouldn’t Hades release them back to their grieving and sorrowful parents? He has no good reasons — just his stupid rules guiding him on. People have become so afraid of him that they won’t even speak his name for fear of attracting his attention. And yet, many still call him the Hospitable One. Just because he always has room for more dead souls doesn’t make him hospitable. It just makes him far greedier than anyone ought to be!
As god of the seas, earthquakes, horses and bulls, I have earned my right to do as I wish. I believe that I am one of the fairest and justest of the gods, and others have a lot to learn from me.
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