About the Ones who Misbehaved and recieved their Punishments

You did better, as long as you followed whatever the Gods said, in Ancient Greece. If one immortal dared think that he/she might be able to defeat the gods, then he/she was mostly doomed.

Minerva—known mostly by the name Athena—was the God of wisdom, truly, as she’d win any contests standing on her way to desire. It was said that she had a great talent for both the usual skills for men, but had she a great talent too, for weaving.

Then one day, Arachne, a maiden, decides to come in competition with the Goddess. She says that she’d like to compete against Minerva, and feels that is just ready to beat a Goddess.

We could say, then, that Minerva was patient, as she wasn’t as keen to beat the mortal, to show off her divinity. Rather, she disguised herself of an old lady, and went to talk to the maiden, saying that what she had done, at trying to compete against Minerva, was lack of respect and loyalty; that if maybe, the Goddess was merciful, she shall live. But Arachne paid no attention whatsoever.

At the end, though, no matter whether if we win or loose, there is nothing we can do, because….our competition was a Goddess, after all. She, yet dressed as the old lady suddenly stops weaving and did not kill her, but rather made her live as a spider, so she, most importantly could remember the memory—day in which she decided to misbehave.

The myth of Niobe tells about a queen, who believed that she was more powerful than the gods. So, every time someone told her to respect them, otherwise, they’d pay, Niobe thought it was courageous to ignore them, and have some self-confidence.

But not self-confidence, over the gods, is the ideal. Niobe’s family and beloved ones, were turned into stone, to show the grave consequences disloyalty to the gods might give. So, the gods don’t intend to kill people who disobey them, but make them understand that what they did was purely wrong, and is going to affect them throughout their lives.