Did you all know that Loki and Odin liked to hunt? One day they hunted an otter, and gave the pelt to the family of dwarves that owned the forest as a gift.
The otter was one of their family members who could shapeshift.
They then gave the dwarves cursed gold as an apology, and the dwarves killed each other out of greed, and the only survivor became a dragon.
And this is why Odin and Loki are massive a**holes.
The gods of Norse where kinda dicks. Like the entire reason Sleipnir exists is because Loki was helping to cheat a guy out of getting paid, as we established earlier last year or this year.
Thor literally could have a bad day and his go-to way to de-stress was to run off and beat the shit out of Frost Giants Regularly. I think Tyr was the only cool not-dick of them really, and the others mocked him for being so stupid and make him look away and Fenrir bit his hand off that was his sword hand, so had to learn to use a shield with that arm and a sword with the other.
Name a god that isn’t a dick.
I did, Tyr, also the harvest gods are pretty alright provided you remember to thank them for their bounty… the problem is sometimes those gods want human sacrifices to ensure a good bounty. And Athena was pretty cool, Ares was a dick though.
Demeter freezes the world a quarter of the year and nearly starved everybody to death all because she doesn’t like the fact her daughter is married to Hades. Seriously, she just about killed everybody. Even the other gods went “What the hell, lady. Those mortals need food!”
Athena’s good in the stories we have, but I imagine there are stories that were lost where she was a dick.
Didn’t Athena create spiders as revenge for being one-up’d when it came to weaving?
And didn’t she turn the beautiful Medusa into a gorgon as punishment for being raped by Poseidon?
She turned Medusa into a gorgon because of punishment for something else because there had to be punishment (I think she killed someone after getting raped? I don’t remember.) but the thought process behind turning her into a gorgon wasn’t “You got raped so here’s your curse.” It was “Look you have to be cursed because there has to be punishment but I’m going to curse you in a way that you can make sure no one ever rapes you again.”
Athena was actually pretty cool.
also, athena wasn’t one-upped. Arachnae challenged athena to a weaving contest because she believed herself better than the goddess of the loom. Athena one because that was literally her domain. Arachnae, distraught by the actions of her hubris attempted suicide via hanging but Athena gave her a second chance. The option to become a great weaver.