![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, he’s a killer and a fairly remorseless one- he has to live, so a great many others have to die. An immortal from Africa, he has already lived for 3,700 years the catch is he does it by taking the bodies of living people to occupy until he’s worn them out, and then moving on to the next one in a sort of chain of corpses. So, it’s at least a little understandable why the gods can be unpleasant, why Zeus, for instance, is such a colossal jerk.Ĭertainly, I found the character Doro in Octavia Butler’s novel Wild Seed to be extremely hard to like. It would be easiest to shun them, enslave them, or kill them. It’s a lonely life as well, and imagine you try to assauge some of that loneliness by falling in love with a human being eventually, they will die and you will live on without them. But then, when you do that, the rest of them consider you to be a malevolent god, or even a devil. Some of them will inevitably defy you, which makes it tempting to simply kill them, control their minds, or otherwise use violence against them. Your wonderous strengths put you in a different class than most men, which makes it seem natural that they would worship, or at least obey you but most of them are obstinate and foolish. Photo by Nikolas Coukouma, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons ![]()
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