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SayuriDarling wrote: Are you asking why the gods don't recruit people into believing in them? Recall that Piper's father learned about who Aphrodite and the gods were and had a mental breakdown from all the information. It's probably because human minds could not handle something like that. On top of that, there is the mist that veils the world from mortals most of the time anyway, so they would have to destroy the mist to get humans to worship them. For your first reason, we know some people like Percy's mother can so it varies from mortal to mortal.

With your second reason, one thing I have always wondered is was the mist always like that or did someone separate the world. How would most mortals ever known about the Olympians or the monsters if they did not see them? I don't see the stories of a few demigods doing it. Plus, in at least the old stories if the Olympians sent a monster to terrorize a kingdom everyone knew it was a monster. It sounds like the mist was something the Olympians (or someone else) set up after the time of myths to separate the worlds. Otherwise, monsters are not much a threat to humans and never were.