'W rath of Gods" is the title of an award-winning documentary directed by Jon Gustafsson, the Iceland-born filmmaker. It could equally be the title of a documentary about the state of the global economy as it stands in November 2008.
There are at present basically three gods whose wrath the economic world has incurred. I hereby christen them Fu-Jin (god of wind), Rai-Jin (god of thunder) and Dai-Majin (the great god of catastrophe).
Fu-Jin and Rai-Jin are well-established figures of Japanese mythology. They appear as a pair on a painted Japanese folding screen that more or less all Japanese people come across as an image at some point in their lifetime. It is the work of Tawaraya Sotatsu, one of Japan's most well-known painters of the 17th century.