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Darkcloud1111 wrote: Gods very rarely blame other gods for the actions of mortals. For example in the story of Medusa, Athena blamed Medusa for what happened despite Poseidon raping her in the first place. Heracles had such a hard life because Hera took her anger for Zeus out on him.

Even if the Hunters knew that Zeus had seduced her, they would have blamed Callisto for allowing herself to be seduced. Zeus on the other hand would have gotten a free pass. True. That is why the blame, even in the original stories, is always on the mortal that was seduced or raped. It is far safer to blame a mortal than to blame a god, especially if you are another god because, being immortal, the other god will hold a grudge on you. An example of this is when Hephaestus is beating the crap out of the river god Xuthus during the trojan war with a river of fire, Hera stops him so as to not create a rift between him and the river god.