Nature's Gifts

The gods are thought to live in heaven or in a sky sort of place but some of these myths prove otherwise. They explain the god’s interaction with nature and very earth like characteristics. I realized their similarity in the way they interact with nature to the way we interact with nature. “Before his house there stood an oak tree containing a serpent’s nest. The old serpents were killed by the servants, but Melampus took care of the young ones and fed them carefully.” It shows that since the beginning of our existing we have been destroying nature. The gods also destroy nature and use it to their short term advantages. In a way there is also a comparison to Gilgamesh since they also interacted with the gods of the Cedar forest like Huwawa. They cut down trees and built shelters for their convenience. We have always been a race that thinks in the short term and as always there are a few people who don’t. The problem is that there are so little of these people that they can’t make a difference in our beliefs. The only difference that I found we had with the gods was that the loved and knew that nature would give us the greatest gift of all including the gift of life. “On awaking he was astonished to find that he now understood the language of birds and creeping things. This knowledge enabled him to fore-tell future events, and he became a renowned soothsayer.” If we could all get that sort of mentality that nature is what sustains us and what can prize us then we will start taking care of it.