The Grammar of the Gods

A few months ago I wrote that classifying the gods by their domains is a schoolboy&#x27;s mistake: Ares for war, Poseidon for the seas, and that&#x27;s that. What I said then was that the gods don&#x27;t have domains, they have stories and one or two traits those stories spring from. I&#x27;ve kept turning it over, and I think that post fell short on the most interesting part, which isn&#x27;t why…