Sky God on Rampage!!!

Ukko has been on a rampage, searching for the murderer of his foreman. Thunder and lightning and storms are ensuing in the skies. He knows it must be one of the gods because the arrow is clearly a celestial make. He's been interrogating Cupid, Apollo, Hou-Yi, Ull, Mesede, and just about everyone who's ever been known to hold a bow in their hand. As you can imagine, most of these gods are pretty proud and they don't appreciate Ukko screaming accusations in their faces. Ukko isn't helping his chances in the competition much either as his constant storming has created a flood and the cement is turning to mud in his building sites while a load of his workers have caught pneumonia and died. His wife Akka is a little pissed because she's the goddess of agriculture and her husband's been basically drowning all her plants. Not to mention the grapes which she had been cultivating for centuries. Diana is laying low in the Grecian forests. Ukko hasn't remembered her yet.

Breakfast and Gossip

Breakfasted on peaches and cream this morning. Yes, the same peaches as the Peach of Immortality which was oh-so-desired by the poor little mortals and caused that poor Chinese gal to be banished to the moon by her archer husband when she stole his peach. In the heavenly palaces where everyone is immortal, these peaches of immortality don't have the same kind of demand they do down on earth so their value is kind of demoted. But they make good breakfasts. Sweet and all. Just the right balance of tenderness and crunchiness. Mmm.
Was sipping some bottled water from the Fountain of Eternal Youth when I heard some hush-hush gossip behind the hibiscus bushes. Diana had gone hunting again this morning and has accidentally shot Finnish god Ukko's foreman right in the forehead. Now she's a little worried that he might find out and accuse her of being in cahoots with Athena to help Athena get a little ahead in their temple-building competition. Cuz everyone knows Diana and Athena are pretty close.
I wanted to hear more but then Itzamna came up just then and started his monologue again on how he has hardly any real followers anymore since hardly anyone worships Mayan gods anymore and how I was so lucky to be a young goddess starting out in immortal life with a whole big bunch of followers and his complaining just drowned out the gossip behind the hibiscus. Honestly! Itzamna is such a bore. And I find that reptilian skin of his positively annoying. Pah.

Games of Gods and Goddesses

Today some of the gods and goddesses were having a competition over whose followers could build them ten thousand temples in the fastest possible time. So they've all delivered celestial messages to their head priest or priestess and the games are beginning. Slaves are being recruited, whips are being manufactured. Bricks and gold galore are coming in! And the rest of us are just sitting back and watching who's tampering with whose followers and who's coming up with the most creative torture threats for priests and slaves whose temple-building threatens to lag behind the others. Met has threatened his Head Priest with a life in an eternal hell if he doesn't win the competition and his Head Priest in turn has threatened the lower priests with death if they don't win the competition and the lower priests in turn have threatened the slaveworkers rank demotion and amputated limbs if they don't win the competition and the slaveworkers have threatened the slaves with everything that's been threatened in the above as well as lots of other fun slow kind of tortures like bamboo shoots below the nails if they don't win. Met's country is in a perpetual state of stress right now. And Aphrodite has ordered Cupid to go shoot some arrows into Brianna's foremen so that they would fall in love with each other's daughters and sons and create a havoc so that work would be stalled and Aphro would be able to get on with her own work. It's all very interesting.