Well, how would they know? Are they really that omnipotent?
As for those travails… huh! It is because they are stupid. If people could just pause and think for a moment instead of swallowing those overrated pratling of some person they could have seen the incredulity of it all.
I have read many of those mythologies and they are almost filled with junk! I couldn’t in my mind understand how people could love them, they aren’t really that good. And I wonder if the people really read the original writings about them and not those censored and rated G versions. Well, they are just a read for historical reasons but for anything else? Better read Into the Abyss by J.L. Langland.