... he was spending with Mebd, which left Fergus unarmed. This type of jealousy is the same type of jealousy that caused wars in the Greek epics or caused gods to pick sides. In the Iliad there is a scene where the mother of Achilles who is a goddess, went to Zeus to ask him to aid Achilles in his revenge against Agamemnon. Zeus' wife saw this and ... is to be honored just as the heroic code in epics is to be honored; otherwise the warriors would not have as much honor behind their names throughout history. There is a difference between the god's interactions in other European epic stories ...

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