While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven.

E.m. Forster
While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them....
While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them....
While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them....
While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them....
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The ancient Greeks believed that the Gods were powerful, but they had no idea why they were powerful. They just knew that they were. And that’s all that was required of them. The Gods were not forced to explain themselves.

They just existed. Only in their day of decadence did a strong light beat into heaven and it made the Gods, and everything else, possible. The Gods were powerful and existed because they chose to be so.

Source: Howard's End

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