Power Of Gods In The Odyssey

In every place you go, country, town, village or even every individual household, you will find a variety of people who dwell there. Some sit high above the food chain while others sit precariously on chairs of eggshells trying to awe those who sit at the seat of honor. This order of things is not only natural but happens now, in the past and even in fiction books. For instance, in The Odyssey gods have more power than mankind, but there are certain things even higher than that on the power scale, gods like Zeus and Hera who hold the most power, alphas as one might say. Although the power of gods and goddesses mighty and often impregnable as it may appear, has its limits to some yielding it and is often times crafted in a way you might not
One instance of this caring use of powers happened when Aigisthos received a warning from the gods, “‘don't kill the man, don't touch his wife,/ or face the reckoning of Orestes/ the day he comes of age and wants his patrimony.’” (Book I, 58-60) If he would have not turned his head so easily away fromt the gods cry of help and toward the body of Agamemnon's wife he could have seen what he had coming to him and not have been blind sighted, his fate of death by Orestes could have changed and he still live, though not with Clytemnestra. So, the gods had many powers that mortals could never possess, one of those on the lengthy list entitles them to yield the ability to not only tell but try and change people's future.
The gods really did show great love to some of the mortals even though they needed not to and could have just associated with those of their own kind. “‘Could I forget that kingly man Odysseus?’” (Book I, 87) He confessed his love for Odysseus when Athena tested it and said he could never forget him which usually a man of extreme power would not speak of someone who sits so much lower than himself on the totem pole. Thus, gods, even in all their power and glory, still associate with humans and do not show the ostracism you would think they would with all their
The statement that all gods play on equal playing fields however has no association with true for there always has to prevail above others. One might even state the obvious and say that gods may not know their own power, for they associate with and assist the lowest of creatures, humans. But even to say they can tell the future would make a great theme statement on the subject. So before you go out thinking the power of the gods only pertains to a singular definition, great, think again because the whole subject, as enigmatic as it is could never inhabit all of it's qualities in one seven hundred fifty word