God Drama

To Demeter
And the sun’s radiance, she still hoped to see
The tribes of gods again, and her dear mother,
And this hope soothed her brave mind in its angish.
The mountain peaks, the sea depths gave an echo
Of her holy voice. Her queenly mother heard it.
Sharp was the pain that clutched her heart. Her own hands
Tattered the veil on her immortal hair.
There is a deeper significance within the Greek gods and their relationships with each other than with other gods of different religions and cultures. In each poem in the Homeric Hymns, the gods and godesses are involved in what can only be described as human terbulation with a divine superiority, in which they like humans have emotions that fluctuate causeing nothing less than godly drama, which is a much more dangerous form of drama than most. In the passage above Persephone longs to be in the heavens again where she can be with other gods and her mother rather than in the hot, dark depths of hell. Demeter, Persephone’s mother, hears her daughter’s cry and searches endlessly across the earch to find her. Like any mother might do, Demeter’s love for her daughter will stop at nothing until her daughter is back in the heavens with her. However, when Demeter takes refuge as the nurse to a mortal child and attempts to raise it as a god, she becomes frustrated with the mortal boundries and throws the child to the ground, stating:
“Idiot mortals, who cannot forsee
Your fate-a good or bad one coming toward you.
You cannot mend the mindless thing you did.
Implacable styx, water the gods swear by,
Be witness, I was going to spare him old age
And death, and give him endless honor also.
He cannot now escape ethe fiends of death – “
Proving further that the humans are seen as nothing more than tools to play with like dolls. The earth and its inhabitants are merely pawns that exsist to praise the gods that created and control them. When they don’t comply with the gods or godesses wishes they are thrown away like garbage and their lives dismisses as nothing more. What this says for the Greek gods is simply that, at least in my mind, they should be set apart from other forms of gods in the sense that they don't have the divine aspect that other gods have in different religions. They seem more like a higher race with just as many problems but a dangerously high influence on the outcome of the world and its people.