Pantheons.

[Saolta Oiche]

I just thought I'd pick your brains.

We all know that panteons of history had Gods and Goddesses but I would like you to reel off to me what things make good Deities.

What I mean is what should we have/what do you think we should have Deities of?

Ta

 

[HoopyFrood]

The God/Goddess who smites everyone who drinks Coffee!

 

[Saolta Oiche]

A good choice, coffee = yuk.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Finally! Someone who understands my plight!

We should NOT have a God/Goddess of Procrastination. Mind you, no one would ever get round to praying to them...

 

[Saolta Oiche]

Ohhh, 'slaps face', very witty, your jokes are nearly getting as bad as mine!

I hate coffee, tastes horrid, just can't abide the stuff.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Oi! I thought that was quite good then...

Thank you, it does taste awful! And smell awful and...well it's just plain awful!

 

[Saolta Oiche]

Ok, it was quite good. I notice you have diverted the theme of my thread, again.

You are far too tricksy!

 

[HoopyFrood]

Mwahaha...I do it on purpose now...

No, I'm only joking, I don't intend to! But I'm just a tangent-y person.

I started off well, at least.

All right...A God/Goddess of Tea. I'd worship it everyday.
No...wait...I already do.

 

[Saolta Oiche]

'Watches Hoopy with a keen eye and mumbles to himself "Mmm, very tricksy indeed."

Anyways, if you had a Deity of Tea surely you could have...

A Demigod/Demi Goddess of Coffee!

 

[Lenny]

A good Deity can be a God of anything.

The Gods that pop up in The Hogfather are a prime example of this. A God of veruca's? The Oh God of Hangovers?

If you can make it believable, then anything and everything can be a God.

 

[Saolta Oiche]

What about on a more serious note?

 

[Lenny]

Oh... fine.

If you've got ANY group of Gods, then you need:

- Leader
- Wannabe Leader
- Lord of the Dead
- God of War
- Goddess of Love (a God of love might be an interesting thing to do... I don't think it's been done before)
- Some lesser-Gods that appear in dreams and make the ordinary people do amazing things whilst the Big Gods aim to protect the ones the ordinary people are doing amazing things against

And there needs to be a hierarchy between them all, with the leader being on top... boviously.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Actually, isn't it something like there was a God of Love, Eros, whereas Aphrodite was just the Goddess of...beauty and fertility, or something like that. *Shrugs*

 

[The Ace]

I have to admit, I liked Sam Vimes' idea of a god of coppers, pity he seems to take on the job himself.

 

[Saolta Oiche]

Impressed, that read out fits right into my brain, ta.

Sorry to have bothered ya so.

Ta all, Vimes is cool, best in Feet Of Clay, damit, Hoopy's tricked my mind into making me divert the topic

 

[Lenny]

Well I'll be damned... Eros was the God of love. Clever Hoopy... bursting my bubble like that.

Maybe it's the other way round, then - there hasn't been a Goddess of Love.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Well, I guess Aphrodite is traditionally the Goddess of Love (it is what she's know for best). And there are probably other Goddesses of Love lying around the place in other religions I just know the Greek (and through this, the Roman) Gods and Goddesses the best.

 

[Lenny]

I thought Aphrodite would be Love as well as Beauty. Venus too.

I wonder who the Norse God of Love is? A whole host of really masculine men (and women - I forgot about Freda) in beards carrying dirty great battle axes.

 

[Pyan]

Freya, Frigga or Frayja ( but alas, not Freda, Lenny; nice thought, though; "Ayup, our Freda: aah've coom t'pray t'thee") was the Norse Goddess of Love, Beauty and Fertility.

 

[Lenny]

Near enough...

Typical, really. The God I forget about and name by name turns out to be the Goddess of Love.