Who were the gods?

The modern view point makes this clear: Don't ask this question.

The gods represented a world that limited the domination of one sort of 'class' or type of humans. By asking about the gods, we revisit a time the the current dominant class was subordinate.

To limit the world to one God, or to say God is dead, or the gods are dead: this is the the dominate world view. We allow a folksy, whimsical reminiscence of the gods, but only as an accessory to a materialistic world-view that has denounced the gods, made a mockery of their value.

The mono-theistic, materialist God, is the spirit of the state. Scott speaks of the organically flowing garden, how a garden flourishes when each small plot of land is cultivated to its special uniqueness. The time of the gods was the same thing: we had millions of feelings of spirit, and people were free to express these feelings. At some point came coercion on a wide-spread scale. This is where the human race got in trouble.

The struggle, now, is between human freedom and its diversity, and a distrust of human freedom, and a desire to coerce, control, and cull humanity to one shape and form.

The gods are man's way of speaking to his earth on his own terms, in the many ways man landed on his specific place on earth, and freely made best of his surroundings. The earth is large and diverse, and men and women have a unique way of speaking to their earth wherever it may be.

The gods, for any man or woman, should be obvious. If they're not, there is coercion, and where there is coercion, there is an attack on the gods, and, what I think is the same thing, an attack on the earth.