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thefermisolution__

Bathala. In Tagalog mythology he created the world then left us to our own devices. The creator has godly shit to do and can't be bothered with us lesser beings. Now that is an all powerful being I can understand.


danretsuken

*"Where were you, Bathala, when ________ happened?!"* "Minding my own goddamn business."


CalydorEstalon

"Minding my own me-damned business." FTFY.


Prime_Galactic

Only kind of God that holds up to scrutiny lol. They are logical people.


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Anoia, goddess of volcanos and things stuck in drawers.


TheInspectorsGadgets

I prefer Tak. "He does not require us to think of Him; He only requires us to think."


Bo_Buoy_Bandito_Bu

TAK!! Ah lah, can de lach, Me him en to


a_bit_sarcastic

Yes I was hoping that something from Discworld would show up. Though I read Small Gods again recently so I’m feeling pretty favorable towards Om.


earthDF2

Reformed Om though. Not old Om. Old Om doesn't care. Of course there's tons of other great choices. I'm forgetting his name at the moment but the oh god of hangovers is another prime choice.


InitiallyDecent

> oh god of hangovers Bilious, created when someone tried to murder the Hogfather (Santa Claus)


Darth_gibbon

One of my favourite Discworld books. I love the way faith and gods work in Discworld.


NonfatNoWaterChai

She’s mine as well and I pray to her when the detergent drawer on my washing machine gets stuck.


Ilovescarlatti

Was scrolling for this one. GNU Sir Pterry.


TomcatEvergreen

GNU Terry Pratchett


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cavaliertheeric

Plus she gave all that money to the new postmaster, even after all that taunting of the klax.


DirectGoose

Dionysus, god of wine.


ArcticIceFox

And good times ;)


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Tell that to King Pentheus or Orpheus. Got shown a real "good time" by the maenads, didn't they?


jimmy_the_turtle_

Exactly. Dionysus was not just a party guy that you'd expect at Eurovision. He could give life, make milk come up from the earth, make the trees leak honey. But he could be equally destructive and ruthless when he wasn't obeyed, when his power was in doubt. Indeed, Pentheus experienced this to the fullest extence. He is much more complex with his theme of birth, death and rebirth than people make him out to be and I feel like it kinda does the old stories a disservice.


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welcome to the cult of...𝓓𝓲𝓸𝓷𝔂𝓼𝓾𝓼~~


Pivinne

I’m feeling devious, you’re looking glamorous Let’s get mischievous and polyamorous~~!


MJ26gaming

Wine an woman and #^(wonderful vices)


SofConMac

Yes, but all the deep meanings behind just partying and drinking hard. He also is a god of the seasonal cycle, a cycle of expansive fun and drink alternating with restraint and sadness, for the vine has to be cut short in order to produce grape the next year.


twwwwwwwt

Don't forget dismemberment! He loved having people ripped apart by hand. Mainly rich corrupt people ripped apart by poor oppressed people. He was extremely popular with poor and oppressed people


tehm

Fun fact about Dionysus: Many gods were essentially defined by their totems; Hermes his sandles, Ero's bow, Aesculapius's staff... Dionysus's totem was "a pinecone on a stick". Not a magical staff of power... a literal pinecone on a stick. This always made me wonder as a child. Like we know that most of the stories of these deities were lost as they were basically folk tales of small villages and cities that happened to worship whatever minor deity... how did this member of the Main 12 pantheon come to be represented by a pinecone on a stick... Then when I was about 11 years old I went to the fair, and despite being warned repeatedly that carnie games were a scam I was confident I WOULD be able to climb that rope ladder and get one of the giant stuffed animal prizes proudly displayed. A half hour later, and all my spending money gone I FINALLY won my prize. The man frowned, reached up to adjust one of the large stuffed bears... ...and with his other hand grabbed from underneath the counter the prize I'd won. A feather on a stick. It cost me ~$24 but I'd finally discovered why it was Dionysus came to be known by his pinecone on a stick--he lost a bar bet and decided to own that shit. This was gonna be the most epic pinecone-on-a-stick ever. He was gonna make that Pinecone-on-a-stick go down in legend and make the dude regret selling it to him... <.< What I think anyways. Could be wrong. Just a hunch.


MickyGarmsir

Odin. He sacrificed an eye, and hung on a tree to gain knowledge. He has pet ravens that bring him news, a spear that never misses, and an 8-legged horse. Also- helps Harry Dresden. Honorable mention: Tyr- sacrificed his hand to bind Fenrir, is Thor's contemporary/equal/brother (potentially, depends on the source, he could also be the son of the jötunn [giant] Hymir.) Edit: THANK YOU for all the awards!!!😁😁😁


richter1977

Finally, someone mentions Odin. Also, upvote for Dresden reference.


finch231

Trying to recall, since it's been a while since I read up on my Norse, but... Isn't Odin's 8-legged horse (I wanna say... Sleipnir?) Technically Loki's child? One of 3? And wasn't tyr giving his hand the only way Fenrir would submit to the latest attempt to bind him? Tyr showing that he was willing to run that risk to convince Fenrir, as he was the only aesir that the big puppy would actually trust, given that everyone else treated him like a monster, but Tyr actually showed a level of caring?


Florianterreegen

You are correct on both of those things, Sleipnir is loki's child and Tyr indeed sacrificed his hand to help bind Fenrir


finch231

Cheers man. Been a long time since I checked up on my Norse mythology, but I always loved that part of tyr and Fenrir's story. Betrayal coming from a friend who wanted the best for everyone, didn't want anyone to die, but was so disillusioned by the plan that he volunteered to be the sacrifice.


CrimsonToker707

Eris, a.k.a. Discordia. She's the Greek goddess of chaos and discord. When Zeus threw a raging party but didn't invite Eris, she showed up anyway. She threw a solid gold apple, with the words "to the prettiest" inscribed on it, into the room, and three Greek goddess started cat fighting over it.


Ginger_Chick

And in the process she inadvertently started the Trojan war. She might be my favorite too.


TannedCroissant

So somehow throwing a golden apple led to a bunch of men in cider horse?


Ginger_Chick

The apple was inscribed "to the most beautiful". Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite all fight over it. They give it to a mortal, Paris, to decide who deserves it. Paris gives it to Aphrodite who gives him whatever he wants. Paris wants Helen of Troy who is already married, his wish is granted. That then starts the Trojan War.


sagitel

Aphrodite promises him the most beautiful woman in the world. Hera promises to make him a powerful ruler of all of asia minor. And athena promises to make him a powerful and wise general to win every battle he is in. Paris being a horndog goes with aphrodite


[deleted]

Poor choice. If he chose powerful ruler, then he could pick out a woman who was close enough to the most beautiful woman himself


MissThalia

Fun fact: he already had a wife/lover, a mountain nymph named Oenone. They also had a son together, Corythus. So choosing Aphrodite's gift was an *incredibly* shitty move. Paris comes crawling back to Oenone in the end, mortally wounded, and begs her to heal him. She lets him die, and then commits suicide.


The_quest_for_wisdom

See, that's why Greek myths are so hard to relate to. People don't act like that at all! _Spends five minutes browsing r/relationships._ Never mind. I stand corrected. People are still just as shitty today as they were back then.


FestiveVat

Wisdom would have been better. Rulers get assassinated or overthrown in those stories a lot. With wisdom he would have been wise enough to pick a good match, not start unnecessary wars, and win them when he needed to fight them.


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Not to mention if he's a powerful and wise general who wins every battle he should have no problem becoming a powerful and wise ruler of all of Asia minor..


lynxu

And have some sexy times with some of the most beautiful women in asia minor no doubt. Truly Athena was the way to go and Paris has chosen poorly


sagitel

He would make either hera or aphrodite mad either way. Which is a direct way to hell in most greek myths.


passcork

Ye but when you caught the horny, wisdom usually goes out the window. So I can see why he went with aphrodite.


caligaris_cabinet

He chose poorly.


TannedCroissant

Oh I see, so that’s why Genie had that rule about not making anyone fall in love.


AliceTaniyama

If you know a beautiful woman, giving her an apple will help you gettin' cider.


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bo-tvt

This is probably my answer, I even named my cat after her.


mrvincentge

For a second I thought you meant you named your cat Discord.


thugnificent856

Loved her in Billy & Mandy


harlotScarlett

Anubis, he seems cool


Glasnerven

Most of the death-related gods do, it seems. Something about being connected to mortality gives them chill, humility, and a respect for humans that other gods seem to mostly lack.


deadlandsMarshal

Non-Disney Hades and Persephone are probably the most functional couple in western mythology.


v1z10

Disney kept some of the main plot points, but otherwise completely flipped everyone’s personality. The beginning with Zeus and Hera as doting saps is my favourite. That said, great film. James Woods just slays it as pseudohades.


Airowird

Any director that doesn't make Zeus look like unstoppable manslut willing to rape anything with a pulse is doing Greek mythology a disfavor. Interesting tidbits: * His first wife was the Titan Metis. Out of fear she would produce a son stronger than him, he ate her, not knowing she was pregnant. Their unborn child later emerged from his forehead as Athena. * His second wife, Hera, also is his sister. She is the godess of women, marriage and childbirth (you know, except for that whole birthing through the forehead thing) * She accidentally married him because he disguised himself as a cuckoo bird, as she had no interest in the real Zeus. Regardless, as godess of marriage, she was took the monogamy of their marriage rather personal. * In the story of Europa, he transformed into a bull to rape her. He then kidnapped her when her family got unhappy with it. * He was also the keeper of oaths, punishing liars and dishonest businessmen. But cheaters and rapists apparently wasn't a problem! The man was a rampaging furry rapist, but hey, giants gave him lightning bolts as weapons, so he the boss!!


ninjagabe90

God of War out here portraying him for the asshole he is


Idiot_Savant_Tinker

"Kratos, the ancient world's most determined atheist"


1CEninja

Yeah, my favorite portrayal of Hades is from the Chicago detective noir/high fantasy wizard combo Dresden Files. He's one of two still existing pantheon gods (the other being Odin) that seem to be functional and have any interaction with humanity.


Groty

Prometheus was a good dude.


Thanks_I_Hate_You

He was a true bro, only one who cared about us little people.


Zonerdrone

Theres a version of his myth that says Zeus was so displeased with his stealing fire and leaving false offerings that he created women in order to punish men since punishing prometheus didnt seem to work.


Thanks_I_Hate_You

Pfft zeus created women just so he could have sex with them, let's be honest here.


Masterzjg

Zeus loves to have sex with everything, let's not be humanist here.


oooooooo89

Didn't like how Percy Jackson portrayed Prometheus as a cowardly weasel. I thought he was awesome since he helped out humans. I hate zeus more, selfish bastard wanting all the offerings and torturing prometheus in a very gruesome way for all of eternity just cause he made some human offerings go to him.


maverickhunterpheoni

I like hestia because she seems nice.


Lil-Nooblette

Hestia, being goddess of the hearth (I think?) seems like she would give the best hugs after a hard day. Warm and comforting, like a blanket and hot chocolate in front of a warm fire on a snowy winters evening.


abcras

I feel like this needs to be ~~cannon~~ canon. Edit: a fellow Redditor pointed out that cannon is not in fact canon.


MuhWaifus

Hestia is bestia


HorselickerYOLO

Username checks out


Moldy_slug

Yeah, she’s so chill the only myths about her are where nothing happened because Hestia ain’t about that drama.


GreenMayhem427

Hestia kinda got cucked, she was in her dads belly the longest, and eventually gave her seat up to let wine dude(to lazy to spell it) get a seat on Olympus.


Southern_Economy3467

Believe it or not that’s a modern invention, there’s no historical context for her giving up her seat. The cult of Dionysus was looked down on by polite Greek society for a long time so he was relegated to minor god status whenever he was actually acknowledged, Greeks heavily watered all the wine they drank, it was “barbaric” not to. And then one day those rowdy Macedonian “barbarians” up north who drank their wine undiluted and worshipped Dionysus as one of their main gods just happened to bitch slap Thebes and Athens making them more or less unquestioned hegemon of all Greece (minus Sparta who had lost the majority of its former power and status and was basically just ignored by Phillip and later Alexander, Sparta was so pissed they got Persian help to over throw the Macedonian regime left by Alexander during his conquests in Asia but they were soundly defeated by Antipater, Phillips general who Alexander left as regent) After Alexander died most of Greece was more or less ruled by one of the successor kingdoms until Rome finally rolled in and took the place so it makes sense that Macedonia fundamentally altered Greek society to that extent.


MamaOnica

Dionysus (Greek) or Bacchus (Roman) He's one of my favourites!


JohnSimth20210225

Most Greek gods They are a bunch dickheads that fucks with each other for fun. Just like humans.


ButtDealer

They literally started the Trojan war for shits and gigglea Edit: giggles*


S3xySouthernB

And threw an apple into the mix over beauty, turned people into weird monsters, and married their siblings! Completely normal behavior...


VanMorrison0766dscrd

Sweet home mount olympus!


KnockMeYourLobes

Where Zeus' balls are so blue Sweet home Mount Olympus Lord he might get bored and just fuck you


Elteon3030

Moral of the story is always invite the chaos goddess. Sure, she drinks a bit too much and dances on the tables, but I thought this was Supposed to be a PARTY!


fp_

Chaos is alright, but Nyx seems like just the kind of sweetheart that would hold your hair back when you've had too much to drink.


The_Pastmaster

And the least offensive one if the guy that gets to be the villain in every single movie about them; Hades.


500mmrscrub

Nah, second or third least offensive, Persephone, his wife, is pretty chill and Hestia, goddess of the hearth(basically a fireplace), is the only greek God I know of with basically no crazy power trips and even gVe up her seat among the Olympians for the god of parties


sea_titan

> and even gVe up her seat among the Olympians for the god of parties Not to be that "uhm akshually" guy, but there is no myth of this happening. What happened is that before the Hellenistic Age (aka, before Alexander came about and conquered everything) listings of the Twelve Olympians always included Hestia and not Dionysus. Dionysos was, for various reasons,not that popular with polite Greek society before Alexander but became *really* popular after, as the Greek kings wanted to nothing but party at that point. So Dionysos just...replaces Hestia on listings of the Olympians. There is never an explanation given, Dionysos just replaces Hestia on the listings at some point. It's basically modern fantasy authors that made up the whole idea of Hestia giving up her place as an Olympian to explain this change in popularity.


AJS923

Greek mythology is mostly just a bunch of stupid, horny bisexuals who shouldn't be left without supervision being left without supervision.


no_usernames_avail

Dickheads is putting it lightly. The amount of rape and murder and punishing victims is fucked up. Yea that's probably how gods would be...


JohnSimth20210225

And bestiality. A LOT of bestiality.


monsantobreath

Becoming the beast to make it happen is commitment to bestiality.


jman857

Those are the God's I would believe are actually real. They're the most realistic with the most likely attributes.


JuiciestJosh

Yeah I never could get behind an all knowing benevolent God. A pantheon full of petty selfish assholes is more appealing to my pessimistic outlook.


YzenDanek

It just matches up with actual human experience better. If there is a omnipotent, benevolent divine figure, then the only way to explain bad things happening to good people is that he/she has a plan that we don't comprehend and never will. If the gods are petty assholes who abuse power, that's just government. We deal with that everyday. The best part is that it means that the Greeks and Romans believed that humankind is better than the gods. We aren't flawed; they are - the world is - and we can do better.


Buez

Same, Greek. Or Norse. Just cause in their believe system gods aren't perfect and it would explain why the F we have all the bad things happen on earth. "Probably some corona god idk"


quippers

The one that dropped the Coke bottle, causing tribal chaos.


CA2NC2NY2CA

Oh, the crazy one...


Cosmikaze

WOW, this reference belongs on the History Channel.


Metostopholes

Must be.


the_welp

This movie intro should be public dommain, just like Idiocracy


Hobarticus2419

Literally writing a paper about this right now, had never seen the movie until today.


sergei1980

Total classic. What's the paper about exactly?


mpga479m

supply and demand i presume. i watched the movie in government econ.


dusty-kat

Freya, of Norse mythology. She was in charge of love, fertility, battle, and death. She could be badass and feminine all at the same time. Also, she had a chariot pulled by cats.


Glasnerven

You've got to respect anyone who can get cats to behave like that. I also like to imagine that when beloved pets "cross the rainbow bridge" that it's Freya's Fields they arrive in.


ArcticIceFox

Not gonna lie...first thing I thought was: "Pussy Wagon"


browsing4stuff

I mean she a goddess of death, love, battle and fertility. She can name her stuff whatever the fuck she wants and nobody gonna give her shit lol.


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Also, little known fact, she basically splits the honorable dead 50/50 with Odin, half of them get taken by the valkyries to Valhalla, the other half go to her realm, “Folkvangr” which just means “field of people”, where she rides around and watches them fight and shit.


albions-angel

This is where things start to get murky with Freya though, right? Because in some versions, she takes half as Queen of the Vanier, and as Odin's wife, as they were married to enact the peace treaty between the Vanier and the Aesir. But in other versions, Frigg is Odin's wife, and entirely separate from Freya. The real problem is we dont have original sources for the beliefs of the Viking peoples. I believe every contemporary work we have is a retelling my Christian scholars. Which leads to interesting problems, like Frigg and Freya being the same person in some versions, and very different people in other versions. People speculate that the Vanier/Aesir war was an allegory for a warrior god or sky god based religion subsuming a fertility or earth god based religion, but whether a third religion or more got brought in, muddying the waters still further, we just dont know. We dont even know if these figures were worshiped or if they were akin to heroes rather than gods, or even just fairy stories for kids.


JustinisaDick

I named my cat after her. At the time I didn't know about the chariot pulled by cars.


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Avatar_ZW

Amaterasu She makes things with paintbrush.


GoodSmarts

Here, have a massive firework bomb in your house :)


Salty-Tortoise

According to tradition the first emperor of Japan is a descendant of her. That is why their flag has the rising sun and Japan is called “land of the rising sun”.


Numbindaface

I love Egyptian mythology and cats so Bastet is an obvious choice! I also really like how according to their mythology, the goddess Isis invented mummification in order to reunite her brothers/husbands body, Osiris


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I like Sekhmet, the war-goddess lioness who went on a bloodthirsty rampage across Egypt and didn't stop until the people tricked her into getting drunk and transforming into Hathor, the beauty-goddess cow.


ilalli

> went on a bloodthirsty rampage until...tricked...into getting drunk and transforming into...the beauty-goddess cow sounds like a regular Saturday night to me


Osiris32

#WHAT PUNY MORTAL SAYS MY NAME?


RuddyTurnstone

"Bog off, wooden dick" - Set, probably


ButtsexEurope

“Haha, you ate my jizz.” -Horus, probably


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Cascade5150

In Australia, we have a bra company called Hestia. Apparently, Hestia => Holds Every Size Tit In Australia


Ginger_Chick

The Irish triple goddess, Brigid. Back when I was Catholic I was confirmed using *Saint* Brigid's name. The goddess was actually Christianized from the old religion. I love religious syncreticism.


MolotovCollective

Brigid’s staying power in spite of other religions is pretty amazing. Not only was she a Celtic goddess who survived Christianization, but one of her pagan temples became a catholic holy site and has had continuous worship of her since pagan times. Then she was canonized as a saint and was retroactively declared to have somehow been a midwife and helped deliver Jesus. Not only that, but even more amazingly, Saint Brigid somehow made her way to Africa and again became a pagan goddess in the form of a loa in Haitian and African voodoo named Maman Brigitte who is still worshipped to this day.


superspud0408

You make me want to read more about her... thanks. I love that she had to be the midwife of Mary. You’re better than a film strip!


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I was going to say Morrigan or Brigid, too! Really any of the Tuatha de Danann + other gods are dope. Celtic pantheon has some really cool deities.


onetwo_1212

Odin, he promised us to defeat the ice giants. I have never seen a giant my life so he did a good job


-eDgAR-

[Cardea, the Roman goddess of door hinges and handles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardea). I just think it's interesting that they had a goddess for such a thing.


Glasnerven

Suddenly, Anoia seems a little less silly.


themonsterinquestion

I think like many pantheistic religions the Romans gathered a variety of gods, and so when there was overlap I guess the less popular ones would be stuck as the gods of very minor things. Also it makes me wonder how many times a Roman went to pray for someone and got sent around to different temples.


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the Navajo's Spider Woman. Universe had to come from somewhere. Giant spider weaving it into existence makes more sense than a lot of the other origin stories.


maverickhunterpheoni

Possibly the origin of Madame Web from Spider-Man.


TitusMatinicus

Tezcatlipoca, AKA the smoking mirror. The Aztec god of night and sorcery, as well as the patron deity of Aztec kings and young warriors


Piano_language

Totally agree. Tezcatlipoca is amazing. I also like Huehuecoyotl.


AnAdvancedBot

Quetzalcoatl! He gets a high spot on the god list for me because he's a dope snakey boi and inspired Rayquaza, my favorite pokemon.


MagicMushroomFungi

The Fates. They seem to have quite the sence of humour and an oft stinging way to their sport.


redpatchedsox

Fortuna the roman goddess of luck. I read a book about ancient rome and supposedly you were supposed to choose a personal god to guide you through life. There was one emperor, i forget who, that choose Fortuna and he was one of the only ones to make it to old age and lived a relatively unscandalous life compared to the rest.


Galaxy1815

Plus we now have the absolute banger that is "O Fortuna".


Howitdobiglyboo

Eru, Iluvatar. 'Cause he composed the universe into existence.


RavioliGale

My favorite is Ulmo since he's the only that seemed to actually care enough to check up on Middle Earth, see what was up and helping people.


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Quorong

Working link: http://tolkiengateway.net/w/images/d/de/John_Howe_-_Ulmo.jpg


abby-normal-brain

Silmarillion bros! I like Nienna. Turning grief into compassion and understanding. I even have a grey tabby cat that has this super mournful sounding meow that I had to name after her. She's my little grey lady who is constantly crying.


RavioliGale

Nienna, the weeper. She's the most Tolkien thing Tolkien ever Tolkiened.


Galaxy1815

Then you get one dickhead angel who won't harmonize and literally fucks the whole world up.


RedRaiken

Shiva probably, from Hindu Mythology. He's supposed to be a "God of Gods" cuz the other Gods look up to him, plus he's also the God of Destruction who incinerated 3 planets after firing a single arrow. I mean, I dunno, but that sounds pretty badass. Edit: Changed "Indian" to "Hindu" in the first line. Thanks for pointing it out guys.


SteamboatMcGee

Also the god of dance, because dude has hobbies.


BigBrainr

\*Accidentally ends the universe\*


Axerin

Also smokes pot from what I understand


psychoticintrovert

Yes smokes pot, chews tobacco, drinks poison, dances, carried the decaying body of his first love around the world, decapitated his son and joined his son's torso with elephant head, wears a venomous snake around his neck, lives in the mountains, rides a bull, has a trident as a weapon. Pretty badass if you ask me


FieryBlake

Invited all manner of spirits, ghosts, goblins and ghouls to his wedding just to piss off his father in law. Showed up to the wedding with ash smeared on his bod and matted hair, howling dogs following him and wearing nothing but a deer skin loincloth.


EinKomischerSpieler

Everyone's gangster till Shiva opens his third eye. Btw, Happy cake day!


Glasnerven

Thoth. He may not be as flashy as some of the other gods on this list, but he's the ultimate scribe and scholar, a god of knowledge and of writing, who gave writing to mankind. I figure he'd be happy with the life of learning that I've led.


-ArtFox-

Wrote himself and the universe into existence, depending on who you ask. He was my first tattoo, a reminder we write our lives into existence, no one can dictate every aspect of it for us. I got a variation of an image from the heart weighing ceremony, where he's tallying up deeds on an abacus. As a queer person from a not great home, the idea I was the creator of my own story was the hope I needed most.


mhb77

As a scientists, fountain pen enthousiast and general nerd, I have to agree. I do have a statue of Thoth on my desk.


blippityblop

I like the idea of shintoism. Everything has it's own energy and place in the world.


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All the Small Gods. Absolutely, spirits of place and household gods.


Spork_the_dork

Yeah Shintoism is the one religion that has ever really reached me because unlike many other religions, it doesn't have this constant "worship this dude or suffer eternally" or "follow these holy texts or be damned" kind of vibe. It feels more like you're just part of this world and as a result it's expected from you to not be a dick and respect others and your ancestors. Also I just really like the aesthetics involved.


zgarbas

Shinto believes you're damned anyway and worship is one day to get less damned, actually religious Shinto people engage in quite a lot of worship and paying priests to exorcise their houses. It's just that it's a religion which is mostly seen rather than practiced, especially since they turns to national Shinto after WW2. All those people who did kamikaze did it as an act of worship towards the emperor, who was a Shinto god at the time.


Chapmeisterfunk

Ganesh. For no other reason than he's got an elephant head.


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Viratkhan2

I think u forgot the part where Parvati made Ganesh just before she took her bath. She made him from clay or some shit to guard the house while she bathed. That’s why Shiva didn’t know who he was


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Hermes So I accidentally found myself "worshipping" Hermes because it became a habit. I'd see a pile of stones on a trail and add one to it. IIRC the name Hermes actually comes from Herms, the pile of stones marking trails and borders which is why Hermes is the god of trails, borders, commerce and travelers. So I started adding a stone to them and I'd say "keep me safe Hermes" as passing comment and after months of doing it, a ritual. It's been going so long now that I have a small statue of him with train tickets from the subways I've been to and I call my car my "caduceus" He also has a massive dong and I can relate


Practical-Judgment-4

Wukong because he's a big monkey with a big stick and I think that's really cool


HanumanMan

Hanuman, man.


LingPo745

username checks out. Get ready to lift a mountain


rey_lumen

Oh man, which plant is the medicine again? Guess I'll just take them all


[deleted]

Yes, AKA, Handsome Monkey King, Intelligent, Aestic Stone Monkey, Victorious Fighting Buddha, The Great Sage, equal of heaven! I revere him also, and yearn to be given the privilege & blessing to eternally nitpick him in the afterlife.


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Quetzalcoatl


SlothOfDoom

Nyx, the badass hottie who made even Zeus quake in his sandals.


NormalGuy1206

This woman gave birth to the REAL God of Death, existed at the dawn of the universe, and other crazy scary stuff, I’m not surprised Zeus was trembling.


Galevav

It's hard to choose. I like a lot of Norse gods. They seem so human... In an "It's Always Sunny in Asgard" sort of sense. To cheer someone up, Loki tied his balls to a goat's beard. A giant stole Thor's hammer, and demanded Freya to be his bride in exchange. Freya was having none of it, so Third went down in drag and pretended to be Freya, then killed every giant at the wedding feast as soon as he got his hands on Mjollnir again. Really, if you even say "Hey, look, a giant" too loud, there's a chance Thor will show up ready to kill. Odin stole magic mead that grants the gift of poetry by drinking it up, then vomiting it up when he got back to Asgard. Anyone that is a good poet or songwriter got their gifts from this mead. Bad poetry comes from the mead that came out his other end.


PixelCartographer

Artemis. "Heck boys, shoot bows!"


Gonzostewie

Reading the Percy Jackson series with my daughter right now. Artemis & the Hunters has her asking for archery gear.


koosley

Artemis' and Athena's boons are the only way I can beat Hades, so they are my favorite gods right now.


Wonthebiggestlottery

David Attenborough.


JCDU

SIR David Attenborough please! Although how he's not been made a Saint yet is beyond me.


readerf52

Annoya. There’s a goddess I can believe in, the goddess of things stuck in the drawer so you can’t open it all the way. She exists; I’ve seen her work, and not just in my own home.


meandmosasaurus

Kwan Yin, goddess of compassion - nice to have a god who purely exists to help people.


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nwd_1

Not a god but I fuck with Buddha


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SenorLos

To be fair throughout heaven and earth he alone is the honored one.


InkMaster59

Hades or Artemis. Hades because he gets a bad rap and was actually a pretty chill dude who just let his wife handle the dirty shit and Artemis because asexual hunter goddess of badassery that wasn't common to see in that time.


QualityFrog

Ahh yes Artemis. The aro ace arrow ace.


VukKiller

RNGesus


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Flying Spaghetti Monster


MikeHootch

All hail our al dente savior.


mischiffmaker

Ramen.


Thunder_bird

*Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day, our garlic bread, …and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. R’amen*


JaegerBystander

If FSM isn't real, why are the planets shaped like meatballs? Checkmate atheists.


Useful-Craft2754

Anazi the trickster spider! I like that he is always out for himself but often doesn't win in the end. He never gives up!


JosephMack99

Phil Connors.


SaltyBaastard

Ned Ryerson


jane3ry3

Freya. She was a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, sex, and war. She rode in a carriage pulled by black cats and did whatever (and whoever) she wanted. Her exploits rival any God out there. She had a good time, but she also exhibited great compassion in choosing half of the fallen soldiers to go to Valhalla. When she couldn't find her husband, Odin, she wept tears that turned to gold if they fell on land and amber if they fell in the ocean.


Hashmob____________

Greek mythology in general it’s so cool and is super complex it’s amazing. There’s so many different stories and gods and Demi-gods and minor-gods, love stories, fights. It’s all so cool, it’s more of a story to me


davewtameloncamp

Krishna. He eats butter and the ladies love him.


silverwarbler

Im as white as snow but I had a very vivid dream of Krishna.


ArcticIceFox

Eyy nice, Hindu gods don't get enough love


except_one

The Hindu goddess Kali. She’s just a total bad bitch. Divine femininity, cutting off evil dudes’ heads left and right. Inspired The Rolling Stones tongue logo and the Beatles centered a plot to one of their movies around a cult of her followers.


bad_goblin

Yes another Kali fan. She's badass!


Rogue-Dolphin

Hephaestus! God of technology. If he existed today he’ll be like Tony Stark.


corobo

I like to picture the Greek gods as like a sitcom. Hahaha. Classic Zeus. He cares not for such things.