The Ghost Of Greek Gods
Did they get it right? I mean the ancients, the non-Jewish types, who saw something all-too-human in the churning ways of the galactic winds. Could it be that the engine of fate is driven by many hands, not One? And that they, the gods, are vicious and backbiting and jealous of man and yet they burn just like man. They have no plan, not for you, nor their children, nor themselves.
But they are swift and they see.
The gods despise heroism as one can see from their treatment of Prometheus, he who stole fire to give Man sustenance. Zeus so hated this petty transgression that he had Prometheus tied to a rock where a vulture eats his liver every day, which isn't the sort of thing one really gets used to. Incidentally the punishment for Man was the sending down of Woman, which if you ask me blatantly violates the principle of punishment in proportion to the crime. Pandora the first woman brought in her proverbial box all suffering and death.
It's a universal principle that the powerful prefer obedience to heroism. So that's how it is in myth, and that's how it is in the world. But what are we really obeying? Gods and madmen!
On a positive note, if we didn't have death we wouldn't have death metal.
