Modern Problems Fictional Mythology

[Sumika_Flau]

So Let's have a discussion about Problems in our general problems our Modern World.
If every mythology and legends exist up until modern times would they deal with problems that is personal for them.
We have Problems that gods if exist would totally destroy us.for example Sea God's examplePoseidon or sny mythologyif its exist . There's a humongous Garbage in the ocean and It' spans around millions of kilometers most is concentrated in the Pacific.Thats why it's called Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

Let's start wirh this problem.

 

[Soupervan]

Depends how gods work.
Could some of them destroy us if they existed? Certainly.
Would they? Depends where their power springs from. If it's innate then sure, they probably would or at least- as per your example, Poseidon or some other sea god would probably send us a few more hurricanes until we stop polluting the ocean.
But if their power comes from the faith people have in them they wouldn't dare kill us all and would probably be wary of killing any mortal that doesn't specifically and horribly offend them just in case they or their decedents are or become authors that might write about them, musicians that will sing about them etc... gaining them more power.
Of course none of that counts with evil and chaotic gods that may just plain not care about any consequences but the 'good' ones presumably would be protecting their livelihoods.
Alternatively gods may have implemented rules of non-interference with mortals (Perhaps until armageddon/ragnorock) which would neatly explain why we have only myths and stories about them and we currently don't know for a fact whether or not god(s) exist and must take such things on faith.

 

[humon]

If a god's power comes from the faith of mortals, then a natural outcome would be incompatible gods slaughtering all the people who worship their rivals in a massive death spiral, or holding back from doing so only because of Mutually Assured Destruction logic (which is very unstable).

It is more useful to think of gods not as physical creatures but as personifications of different aspects of nature and human personality complexes. Thus, the gods don't act directly in the sense of Poseidon rising from the water and jamming his trident up someone's ass, but instead by influencing natural events (thunder and lightning, earthquakes, hurricanes, plagues, meteorites) and the actions of humans (war, treachery, heroism and genius). So for example there was a passage in the Odyssey where Odysseus was swimming off a rocky coast and was about to be dashed against the rocks by powerful waves (possibly because he offended Poseidon by jilting one of his daughters), when IIRC Athena touched his mind and helped him to position himself in just the right way to avoid injury (or something like that, it's been a very long time since I read it).

And when two cities in the ancient world went to war over a difference in their culture and constitution, they were in fact going to war to decide which of their patron gods was stronger, because it was the worship of a particular god that gave the city its entire moral and political character. Two cities with incompatible views both want control of the same trade route? Okay, let's see which city can produce a stronger army and defeat the other in battle. Let the stronger god win out, and anyone who wants to be a winner then knows which god is stronger. Divine Darwinism, you might call it.

Maybe one city loses the war because they suffered a plague, which they take as clear divine intervention, but if you look into it in detail, they might have had customs that allowed disease to spread a lot faster than in other cities, or they had more contact with distant places that exotic diseases came from, and that's why they got punished while their enemy didn't. In the human subconscious, it all gets condensed into, "Your gods are inferior, they have made you weak, and now you will die"