We Need a Specialist

It's time to go back to specialization.

In the olden days, if you needed rain, you went to the rain god's temple with an offering and discussed it with him/her. Thunder and lightning might have required another deity and a larger offering. The fertile crop deities were always popular for a party and wine deities even had their own and frequent holidays.

Then along came this one god I can do everything guy and things have been going down hill. When is the last time he granted anything? I mean it is possible he is overworked but he was supposed to do everything and now we have droughts, famine, Global warming, massive crop failures, unhappy people all over the place (I think the wine deities would have fixed that one), hatred, fear and it just goes on and on.

Multiple Deities made us happy. If they didn't work out, we just borrowed the village next door's deity. I think that is why we have so many wine and fertility deities. Villages started collecting them. They are fun.

I bet all Noah's wife wanted was her garden rained on every Monday and Thursday. Somewhere around week 5, she is asking Noah where the rain is. Noah is, as usual trying to shut her up as he is building a big boat dreaming of all the riches this new one god is going to drop on him. We all know how that turned out, a huge flood and a boat load of whining animals.

We need to go back to the specialist deities. They knew how to get things done.