I agree with Jonas, that the gods who are supposedly the most supreme rulers of the people who believe in them are not in control of the fates of mortals. Gods do not have the power to take life away because they fates of everyone are controlled by the 3 women. Whenever someone is killed in the story regardless of who, when or where it is, it was already determined by the fates. This directly relates to the fact the Poseidon wont kill Odysseus. Not because Poseidon does not want to kill Odysseus, he would probably be more than delighted to avenge his sons death, but because the fates control everyone, he cannot. As the story continues I am sure we will see more examples of gods not being able to do things they would really enjoy doing because the fates be in control