Ancient Greeks believed that looking at the true, physical appearance of the gods was only worthy of other gods and doing so would cause them to perish, usually from a bolt of lightning.
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This should've been a proper comment, not just a reply lmao
They didn't bother to check cos the gods would get angry if a mortal climbed up. (Im lazy so heres the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus)