Given the effort, not to mention the animal and human sacrifices, that went into pleasing and propitiating the gods, I tend to agree with you. And the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament are full of stories about the wrath of Yahweh/Jehovah when crossed by uppity humans.
Reasonable, actually. I think that is what men eons ago were affraid of.
Given the effort, not to mention the animal and human sacrifices, that went into pleasing and propitiating the gods, I tend to agree with you. And the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament are full of stories about the wrath of Yahweh/Jehovah when crossed by uppity humans.