Plus he was so shagged out by the effort he needed a day off. The old Olympian gods could create this idiot into the middle of the next millennium and not even break a sweat.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'