The Greek
gods are kind of funny, and by that I’m not talking comedians. They do like
jokes, but most of them tend to be the one-sided kind of funny where one thinks
it’s funny, but the others are mightily ticked. When it’s between gods, not a
whole lot happens. One might go complaining to Zeus, who never seems to spend
much time on Olympus. If it was your job to settle disputes between the gods
you might choose to be out of the office, too. Of course, what Zeus spends his
time doing out of the office is a story for another time.
When it
comes to mortals, the jokes gods play are very seldom funny. Worse than that,
the gods have a funny sense about pride. The absolute worst thing you can do to
the Greek gods is to wound their pride. They take that personally. Worse, they
won’t kill you. They’re fond of turning people into other things whether it be
plants, animals, or insects. When you wound a god’s pride, expect to undergo a
metamorphosis. There’s actually an entire collection of myth stories by the
Roman poet Ovid called The Metamorphoses
detailing these stories.
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