Those who lived during the Shang Dynasty also believed that their ancestors — their parents and grandparents — became like gods when they died, and that their ancestors wanted to be worshipped, too, like gods.

Enki explains that Enlil is unfair to punish the guiltless, and the gods institute measures to ensure that humanity does not become too populous in the future.

Eventually, after cooling her anger, she too seeks the help of Enki, as spokesperson of the " assembly of the gods ", the Igigi and the Anunnaki.

But they did believe in lesser gods too.

It is not uncommon, too, for a character to scorn the gods, as seen in Poenulus and Rudens.

The gods, seeing that he had killed too many of their children, decided that it was his time to die.

It was thought that the gods were too far away from the earth to have any interest in what man was doing ; so it did not do any good to pray or to sacrifice to them.

According to Balkan folklore, when it rained too much, women would run into the fields and lift their skirts to scare the gods and end the rain.

They speak much, too, both regarding the angels of God and those who are opposed to the truth, but have been deceived ; and who, in consequence of being deceived, call them gods or angels of God, or good demons, or heroes who have become such by the transference into them of a good human soul.

It records that his songs were condemned by the Parians as " too iambic " ( the issue may have concerned phallic worship ) but they were the ones who ended up being punished by the gods for impiety, possibly with impotence.

He had committed too great a crime for wanting the wife of one of the great gods as his own bride.

Telchines use their black magic not only to get back at the gods, but to create weapons that can harm not just immortals but mortals too.

Christian theologists present Bona Dea-or rather, Fauna, whom they clearly take her to be-as one of the innumerable Roman gods who supposedly show the immorality and absurdity at the heart of traditional Roman religion ; according to them, no prophetess, merely " foolish Fenta ", daughter and wife to her incestuous father, and " good " ( bona ) only at drinking too much wine.

Finally the gods realize that they, too, must allow themselves to be sacrificed so that human beings may live.

But Greek mythology is quite different from Hindu mythology ; the two peoples ' attitudes to cosmology and the nature of the gods themselves were too different to allow too close a comparison.

He presides over the concrete and abstract beginnings of the world, such as religion and the gods themselves, he too holds the access to Heaven and other gods: this is the reason why men must invoke him first, regardless of the god they want to pray or placate.

Both bartered with their gods for the upper hand, until the Gree gave too much away, and became a food source for the Ferengi.

Once an immortal who was the Marshal of the Heavenly Canopy commanding 100, 000 naval soldiers of the Milky Way, he drank too much during a celebration of gods and attempted to flirt with the moon goddess Chang ' e, resulting in his banishment into the mortal world.

The hell gods barely defeated Glory, but despite their victory, Glory was too powerful to destroy, so they banished her into the earthly dimension, where her essence would be imprisoned in a human child named Ben, created solely to " contain " her until he eventually died as a mortal, sealing her.

Together, they work to ensure that the gods of the human and monstrous pantheons don't grow strong too quickly.

And Álfheim the gods to Frey once gave

The gods gave him Álfheimr, the realm of the Elves, as a teething present.

The other gods bribed Hera with a beautiful necklace nobody could resist and then finally gave in.

Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to man, the woman Pandora and her pithos.

: and gave him as hostage to the gods ;

As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods contribute to her completion ( 63 – 82 ): Athena taught her needlework and weaving ( 63 – 4 ); Aphrodite " shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs " ( 65 – 6 ); Hermes gave her " a shameful mind and deceitful nature " ( 67 – 8 ); Hermes also gave her the power of speech, putting in her " lies and crafty words " ( 77 – 80 ) ; Athena then clothed her ( 72 ); next she, Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery ( 72 – 4 ); the Horae adorned her with a garland crown ( 75 ).

Aristeus did so, and Proteus eventually gave up and told him to sacrifice 12 animals to the gods, leave the corpses in the place of sacrifice, and return three days later.

However, Loki had " such dealings " with Svaðilfari that " somewhat later " Loki gave birth to a grey foal with eight legs ; the horse Sleipnir, " the best horse among gods and men.

After seven years, the gods decided to send Odysseus home ; on a small raft, he sailed to Scheria, the home of the Phaeacians, who gave him passage to Ithaca.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

The Bible describes Yahweh as the god who delivered Israel from Egypt and gave the Ten Commandments and says that Yahweh revealed himself to Israel as the who would not permit his people to make idols or worship other gods " I am Yahweh, that is My name ; I will not give My glory to another, or My praise to idols.

In the " interpretatio romana ", Gregory of Tours gave the Germanic gods that Clovis abandoned the names of roughly equivalent Roman gods, such as Jupiter and Mercury.

Later sacrifice became a feast at which oxen were slaughtered. Men kept the meat, and gave the gods the bones wrapped in fat.

This may potentially mean that dwarfs formed humans, and that the three gods gave them life.

Paris gave the crown to Ares without hesitation ; it was this apparent honesty in judgment that prompted the gods of Olympus to have Paris arbitrate the divine contest between Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena.

The kings, queens, and heroes of the Trojan Cycle are often related to the gods, since mythic origins gave stature to the Greeks ' heroic ancestors.

The Father of men and gods gave you birth remote from men and secretly from white-armed Hera.

Genesis 35: 4: And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which in their hand, and their earrings which in their ears ; and Jacob hid them under the oak which by Shechem.

According to Suetonius, the Roman Emperor Caligula " gave orders that such statues of the gods as were especially famous for their sanctity or for their artistic merit, including that of Zeus at Olympia, should be brought from Greece, in order to remove their heads and put his own in their place.

According to Theban tellings, it was at the expiration of this period that the gods gave him Harmonia (" harmony ", literally " well put together ", or " well assembled ") as wife.

The gods gave her ornaments, weapons, and her bearer, the lion.