The elder gods are necessarily mere figure-heads of bulk, might, majesty, and antiquity; to get any character out of them after these "property" attributes have been exhausted to the mind's eye, to "set them going" in act, and doing something apportionable into cantos, and readable by human energies, was not a problem which could be solved by a poet of the nineteenth century.
"Life of John Keats"
William Michael Rossetti
Treasure was within their reach, apportionable, when obtained, as prize-money.
""Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea"
Morgan Robertson