Story Time 2!

The woodcutters were tired of Gods showing up and messing around with their tools, so that they could ‘test’ them. In the grand assembly, everyone agreed that instead of performing cheap tricks to prove they are cool, the Gods could just have used their Omniscience to see if the woodcutters were honest or not. The gods were messing around for their own fun, and they had to be stopped. Otherwise, the Gods could get ideas and start interfering in daily life, giving unfair advantages to people who ‘worshiped’ them and putting people who did not agree with their ideas at sticky spots. The Gods were too undemocratic and mercurial to be trusted and something had to be done.

Hjeyrrdal rose up and volunteered to take up the project. He would teach gods such a lesson that they would never again dare mess around with human beings. The other woodcutters agreed, and offered him whatever help he required. He selected five of the best architects and craftsmen from the crowd and promised to the rest that he would be back to report success very soon.

It took the team three weeks to build the maze. The maze was a jungle of lifelike woodcutter dolls, wells, forest, and a small candy house with a fake with who would pretend to cook the children in her oven and try to eat them.

And thus the plan was put into action. A carpenter from the Guild of Carpenters Hating the Stuupid Gods pretended to lose his axe to a well and like charm, a god appeared out of nowhere and started offering him all kinds of expensive axes. The woodcutter feigned amnesia and asked the God to follow him to his house, where he had a photo of his old axe. He took the God to the middle of the maze, pretended to have forgotten something, and got out of the maze through a pre-planned route. The maze was then closed, making it impossible for anyone to escape from it.

The God waited for several hours until he realized he had been tricked. He did everything he could to get out of the maze but failed. Finally, the chief negotiator of the woodcutters communicated to him through the hidden speaker and offered him release from the maze if all the gods could promise they would never interfere with humans again. The God thought for some time, and agreed to it. Thereafter, the gods have never interfered with human lives.