Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1820614-20150509232606/@comment-1820614-20150527002351

Leung.longhei wrote: You don't get it, do you? He needs to cleanse himself. If he didn't do it, he wouldn't have been a god and would probably get Punishment or something when he dies. Are you talking to me or Solangeloisendgame? I know he had to cleanse himself because regardless of his culpability in the act he still had to spiritually purify himself  because it were his hands that did the deed. and in some versions the labors were a means to prove himself worthy of godhood. If he had done the Labors without this hanging over him it would have been very different. But since a major reason for the Labors was to cleanse himself it comes off as unfair because he is having to atone for something Hera is responsible for. He suffers while she gets off scott free.