S6E8 WRATH OF GODS

Trickery, hate, anger, mass extermination, trust and loyal followers. Quite the mix of conflicting actions, but there is precedence in ancient Egyptian myths.

The Egyptian gods had their passionate tirades. In the Contest of Horus and Seth, the goddess Neith vows to get angry and cause the sky to collapse if her favorite (Horus) is not chosen to succeed Osiris. The god Seth is so vividly portrayed that he came to be known as 'the raging one' whose irrational anger against the ideal order (implied in the myth of Horus and Osiris) seems to represent all the chaotic aspects of the world.

The god Re-Har-akti goes off to brood when another god reminds him that no one worships at his shrines anymore.

In another myth, the bloodthirsty goddess Hathor/Sekhmet goes beserk and almost annihilates the human race which is saved when other gods intervene, tricking her into believing that red-colored beer is human blood.

Flocke appears to have mastered both the trickery to get people to do what he wants, but also the vengeful wrath for those who do not follow his commands (i.e. the massacre at the temple and the Ajira passengers on Hydra Island).

Jacob also appears to have mastered the art of trickery to get people to do his bidding, in a more subtle way. He also is not concerned by the red shirt body count along the way, or that human sacrifices like Nadia need to be made in order for his plan to be followed.

It seems that Flocke has taken more control of the island through his angry coup against Jacob, who apparently was an equal or slightly higher god in power or position than MIB. But whether Flocke knows it or not, ghost Jacob still roams the island, and he is still recruiting his own "candidates" to follow him. They are two sides of the same coin in many respects. And the concept of them "trading places" puts a bitter seed of playing with other people's lives in a distasteful light.