I have this mental fanfiction that every god has a way to be killed, and when you kill them you can get things from them.
For instance, the one that I refer to the most often is Ben Franklin using a kite and a key to slay Zeus and to steal electricity from him.
And then of course there’s Prometheus who intentionally and willfully laid down his own life so that humanity could have fire.
But there are more gods than there are words to describe them.
What other gods have we claimed existed, that we humans have likely slain, and what do you think we got from them?
The first microscope was, in fact, Asclepius’s stolen staff. That lead to germ theory.
In the early 20th century, we finally mined deep enough to collapse the underworld on Hades and found Uranium.
A DARPA radio transmitter fried Hermes in flight and brought us the internet.
One of the V2 rockets landed on Selene, who was visiting Earth, and opened up the way to travel to the moon.