User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 529: Teacher, Review/@comment-130.105.140.184-20170403083842/@comment-7418318-20170403122355

Nah not really.

Zeref contracted the curse prior to building the Eclipse Gate, reviving the dead or creating Demons (i.e. creating life) back when he formulated theories and conducted research on how he might do it in the future.

And I'm still not convinced that Ankhseram was really the one that cursed Zeref or that he/she/it even exists. That he was cursed by a God because he meddled with life and death was religious supostition of Zeref's people, but we don't know if it was based on truth or just baseless dogma.

To me it looks more like people couldn't figure the curse out, so they fell back to the age old "god did it". Just like Gods were supposed to make the sun rise and fall or how the gods created the world and all the races...

Lighting in the sky? A god is throwing a tantrum. A flood? God was displeased with the way the world is, so he washed it away. A volcano raining ash and sufflur on a city? God's punishment for their decadence.

Zeref being cursed? God's punishement for meddling with things mortals aren't supposed to touch... would fall right in with all that.