ITT: Your favourite Gods and Deities

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Artemis because this is my fetish.

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Valisystem is real

>>1733024
That Poseidon statue is more likely Zeus. In the national archaeological museum in Athens the little plaque says that it could be either but most likely Zeus and then 2 meters to the right is a much smaller version found in the sea (I think along with it) pretty much the same with a thunderbolt. Most professors at the University in greece say Zeus as well

>>1733024
Ares
God of War.

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>>1733081

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The cutest one i.e. Antinous.

>>1733051
The statue does look as though he's hurling a thunderbolt down to earth rather than throwing a trident so i agree that it's zeus

>>1733081
Are was a dick. even the Greeks hated him.

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>>1733024
>Your favourite Gods and Deities

THE TERM "GODS" IS A MISNOMER; THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

MY FAVOURITE DEITIES ARE SATURN, MINERVA, AND MARS, IN ALL THEIR MYTHOLOGICAL ITERATIONS.

>>1733081
>got rekt by Athena
>got rekt by Heracles
>got rekt by Diomedes
>got rekt by Hephaestus

>>1733101
>le screaming tripfag, ruiner of threads.

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Was Hephaestus a NEET?

>>1733132
He was employed as hell. You can be a neckbeard loser without being NEET

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>>1733132
>Then the bard struck the chords that began his sweet song, and told of the love of Ares and Aphrodite of the lovely crown, how they lay together in secret in Hephaestus’ house, and how Ares gave her a host of gifts while dishonouring the Lord Hephaestus’ bed.
>When Hephaestus had heard the sour tale, he went to his smithy his heart set on evil, and set up his huge anvil on its block, and forged a net of chains, firm and unbreakable.
>When he had spread his net over the bed, he pretended to leave for Lemnos, that well-ordered citadel, dearest of all the islands, to his eyes.
>When Ares entered and took Aphrodite's hand and spoke to her: ‘Sweetheart, come, let us to bed, and take delight in mutual love. Hephaestus has left, for Lemnos no doubt, to visit the barbarously spoken Sintians.’
>Then clever Hephaestus’ cunning net fell all around them, and they were unable to move or raise themselves. They soon realised there was no escape.
>He [Hephaestus] came home, troubled in mind, and as he stood in the gateway a terrible anger seized him. And he cried out fiercely to all the gods:
>‘Father Zeus, and all you other blessed and immortal gods, come, see something laughable, and intolerable, how Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, scorning me for my lameness, makes love with hateful Ares because he is straight-limbed and handsome while I was born crooked. My parents alone are to blame for that: I wish they had never made me! Look how these two usurp my bed and sleep together, while I am filled with pain to see it. Yet they won’t want to lie like this much longer, I think: no, not for an instant, however much they are in love. They’ll soon lose their urge for bed, the net and its links will hold them instead till her father repays me all the gifts I gave him while wooing this shameless hussy, a beautiful daughter indeed but faithless.’

>>1733107
He enjoys and revels in the fact that he could get wrecked, if he couldn't get wrecked what would be the point in fighting in the first place

Athena was the angry faggot of olympus

Priapus.

>>1733186
>and he cried from his aching lungs I SHALL NOT BE KEKED

Me

inb4 vikinboos and their pagan shit.

>>1733273
Norse mythology is actually super cool if you look past WE WUZ VIKINGS shit
Not only did they believe that the gods could die and that some already had, they took it further and said they were all gonna die.

Jesus.

Anything else means you will burn in hell, pagans.

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>>1733024

>Dionysos
Went from a wild rural god of drinking to an austere cosmic savior figure that would serve as the template for Greek savior gods, culminating in JC

>Persephone
Queen of the Underworld, her name was considered so sacred that it was never spoken, to the extent that all we have of it as euphemisms like "kore" (the maiden) and "persephone" (the keeper of the garden).

>Ogmios
Celtic god of eloquence, depicted with silver chains connecting his tongue to the ears of his listeners.

>Empedocles
Magicians, mathematician, early pioneer of atomic theory, proved his divinity by leaping into an active volcano. Can't get more metal that that.

>>1733101
>THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.
Prove it.

>>1733084
>>1733088
>>1733024

>mfw statues were the old form of mirin gains

no homo

Athena

best god
best girl

>>1733186
Fun fact : That myth marks a conjection of all the planets, with Mars and Venus in the middle.

We know from that what year the Dorian invasions happened.

>>1733024

Aphrodite cuz she's a bad bitch. Hephaestus cuz he cares about his niggas.

>>1733024

If you don't think Dionysus, the god of wine, festivities and (!) drunken rape (!) was the greatest of all the greek pantheon, then you're a confirmed fag.

Athena is pretty baller as well. Easily better than Ares, no questions asked.

Me? Oh, I'm more of a Priapus kinda guy.

>>1733420

LIGHT IS NOT PROVEN, BUT PERCEIVED; ONE CANNOT "PROVE" LIGHT TO A BLIND INDIVIDUAL.

>>1733329

you you've got some baller taste, friend

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I think the far-worker is a little underappreciated. He never really carried on into the later hellenistic period with the weird savior religions.

Does Apep even count?

>>1733024
YHWH, the One True God.

>>1734013

YHWH IS A DJINNI/DEMON, NOT GOD.

>>1734013
God you are boring

>>1733933
Funny enough you too are blind, Gnostic heretic.

>>1734016
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Acts 17:31
Do you scoff at these words?

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Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia.

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/downloads/Principia%20Discordia.pdf

"Do not reject these teachings as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true."

>>1734026
edgy

>>1733329
>Went from a wild rural god of drinking to an austere cosmic savior figure that would serve as the template for Greek savior gods, culminating in JC
euphoric

Lord KEK, source of all memes, master of the dark before the dawn, bringer of magic and dubs.

>>1733287
Note that the certainty of Ragnarok is hotly contested and could very well be a Christian introduction(at least the way we understand it). I tend to think of Ragnarok as something extremely distant and far like the heat death of the universe.

Note that an offering or invocation is not worship like the christcucks think

>nordic pantheon (thor in pparticular)
>KEK
>cu culain
>superman
>I AM THE BEAST WORSHIP
>ziggy stardust
AWWWW SHIT I'M FEELING IT

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Ixtlilton is the black face in the obsidian mirror. His ink is the health and a writer his home.

>>1734064
We wuz

>>1734022

YOU ARE IGNORANT; YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHO YHWH, GOD, ARE; THAT QUOTATION REFERS TO GOD, NOT TO YHWH.

>>1734077
>"... WHO YHWH, [OR] GOD, ARE..."

>>1734077
The Word, who arose from the dead, came in the flesh.

>>1734083

YOUR REPLY IS A NONSEQUITEUR.

>>1734084
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
John 1:14

>>1734073

Also, he looks like a Transformer in the thumbnail. 10/10 would sacrifice my Oxen to.

>>1734092

AND?

>>1734102
>was made flesh
B-but i thought the material was evil?

Brahman.

>>1733896
gonna need more details

>>1734103

APPARENTLY, YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF BEING NECESSARILY COHERENT TO HAVE A DIALOGUE; REPLYING WITH NONSEQUITEURS MAKES YOU SEEM IDIOTIC.

I in general like underworld as well as trickster deities. Especially the latter.

Coyote from the Native Americans. Anansi the spider. The Monkey King. Prometeus. Etc.

As for underworld: the wolf Fenrir and Sobek + Seth.

I also like Artemis because of the Spartan theology that surrounds it.

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Odin as like a wandering old dude is such a comfy image.

Prometheus is also another cool figure.

>>1733024
Father, Son and Spirit

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>Out of the surface of Durga's forehead, fierce with frown, issued suddenly Kali of terrible countenance, armed with a sword and noose. Bearing the strange khatvanga, decorated with a garland of skulls, clad in a tiger's skin, very appalling owing to her emaciated flesh, with gaping mouth, fearful with her tongue lolling out, having deep reddish eyes, filling the regions of the sky with her roars, falling upon impetuously and slaughtering the great asuras in that army, she devoured those hordes of the foes of the devas.

Anyone who doesn't feel drawn to this is dead iside.

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Guess

>>1735667
What I really like about what are commonly called "pagan cultures", is that the gods were often mutually understood to be local. So your neighborhood's gods, even if not your own, can and do come "visit". IIRC some Greek myths explicitly acknowledge Egyptian deities.

>>1734521
If you like tricksters you should check out huehuecoyotl and tezcatlipoca.

Týr/Tiwaz

Prometheus

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Shiva/Shakti

>>1733024
Not a god, but Metatron.

>>1734073
Too bad Mexicans stopped worshiping them.

I'm trying to make a art of Mitecahuatl the godess of the original Dia de Los Muertos

>>1735807
Yep I heard that Greeks and Romans just assumed other Gods to be their own or indeed added them.

And in the book 1491 or 1493 and a book on the Aboriginals (the greatest estate on earth) the indigenious people complained that when they told their stories to the Christians and the Christians their stories to them, how the Christians would insist that only their stories were true. If I remember correctly (possibly not) either the Aboriginals or Indians, maybe both, just wanted to share the stories and believed both to be true.

It actually made me kek because how autistic that must have been having Christians tell you that.
>>1735817
Will do. I read the book "Trickster make this world", which was a bit of a hit and miss, but no mention of any Aztec deities.

I read a book on Aztec philosophy it was interesting.

Mfw no Boreas god of winter. Comfy deity op

Eris, goddess of sick bantz

>>1733969
sry m8 but apollo was a downright cunt

Buddha.

>>1736049

Like an embassy consisting of "That Guy".

>>1735638
Patron deity of 4chan

>>1733919
My nigga

>>1736049
That's also the reason the Romans had such a hard time with the Christians and Jews. Religion was a part of the social order for them, and the Abrahamic rejection of any/all Gods other than YHWH/Christ just didn't make sense to them.

Hell, Trajan tells Pliny the best way to find out if someone is Christian is to see if they will pray to the State gods.

>>1736344
>and the Abrahamic rejection of any/all Gods other than YHWH/Christ just didn't make sense to them.
The more I think about it, the less it makes sense to me too. But hey it worked.
Were the Abrahamic religions the only who did this?

How was the spread of Buddhism?

Zoroastrianism in general is one of my interests

>>1736482
Christianity grew for three major reasons-
1) Its community leaders did a lot for the poor and treated people equally
2) Despite the rumors of "cannibalism" and "incest," most people saw its followers were very moral and good people
3) It gives a pretty detailed description of the afterlife it promises you, and it is an afterlife that is open and available to everyone.

You have to remember that at least half of the Old Testament is "our God is better than your gods." Especially Exodus and Samuel.

While Christianity denied other Gods, that doesn't Christian Theology doesn't pick up a lot from other religions. And the holidays thing was just the Romans trying to keep public holidays in order after the conversion.

Buddhism, as I understand it, spread a lot like Christianity in terms of small communities adopting it. And then you had Ashoka renounce violence after his wars and encourage its growth while he was King.

>>1736582
>1) Its community leaders did a lot for the poor and treated people equally
They did a hell of a lot more for them than the pagans ever did, who were content rounding them up in chains and shipping them off to die in profit wars when they weren't imposing crushing taxes on them.
>2) Despite the rumors of "cannibalism" and "incest," most people saw its followers were very moral and good people
That was imperial propaganda. Emperors often needed a scapegoat for the massive array of problems they faced and Christians made a convenient one
>3) It gives a pretty detailed description of the afterlife it promises you, and it is an afterlife that is open and available to everyone.
Religions had been doing that since the Old Kingdom of Egypt. What Christians did differently was promise true equality under God, a new conception of human ethics based around the golden rule. This was a radical departure from previous pagan narratives which stated that if you were wealthy and successful it was because the gods favored you and if you were poor and desperate it was because you weren't faithful enough. A Christian saint is someone who serves their fellow men, where the heroes of pagan legend were ones who murdered them efficiently.

>Buddhism, as I understand it, spread a lot like Christianity in terms of small communities adopting it.
Interestingly enough, all the major world religions emerged around roughly the same time period in each of the major civilizations of Eurasia, and they all were a variation of the same theme: humans have to cooperate and get along with each other in order to make larger and more complex societies possible

>>1736720
>Interestingly enough, all the major world religions emerged around roughly the same time period in each of the major civilizations of Eurasia
i'm assuming you're treating all Abrahamic religions as one entity for the sake of this argument, so which time period are you referring to?

>>1734194
>Gnostic literally BTFO

>>1736745
>so which time period are you referring to?
The aftermath of the Bronze age era dynasties through the mid iron age.

Buddhism (483 BCE) Confucianism (479 BCE) Taoism (specific date unclear but around the same time) Zoroastrianism (ancient origins but emerges in the historical records around the mid 5th century BCE) Christianity (33 CE) and Islam (early 6th century CE) are all religions with profoundly different ethical traditions than the primitive polytheistic traditions that they emerged from. A few faiths, such as Judaism, Hinduism, and Shintoism are outliers who preserved and adapted their ancient traditions to the new reality, while all who refused to adapt perished.

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I keep a statuette like this on my shelf

it inspire's me to push my limits

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>>1735490
What's with Hindus and these crazy women gods.

>>1736915
>What's with Hindus and these crazy women gods.
Pure misogyny.

Can someone recommend me a book about Aztec gods?

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Ek Chuah, once the War Chief, once the North, once the Black, once the Star, once the Guide, once the Scorpion's spear, once the Underworld's reach, once the Fertility trail, once the Return, once the Trader of traits, once the Traveler carrying the souls of the fallen.

>>1736915

>Burning_Man_aftermath800BC.jpg

>>1733903
>no cute and cuddly elephant friend to speak to.

>>1736915
>crazy goddesses.
they are all aspects of 1 goddess, shakti.
Also the primal force of the universe.

You have durga which is pretty much athena. Parvati who is a nice maternal goddess.

Then you have kali who is doomgal.

>>1736915
>bhairavi devi
my patron deity desu

>>1733024
hera and athena

DAILY REMINDER HERA WAS CONSIDERED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL, APHRODITE WAS MORE "SENSUAL" AKA SLUTY

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>>1738573
>HERA
If that was true then why did Zeus cheat on her on the daily?

>>1740064
cos he was a stud, if i were king of the gods id fuck everyone i could as well.

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I also like Minerva and the Demiurge.
I mostly view divinity as something feminine.

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>>1738573
this.
hera is best girl

>>1733186
>he is straight-limbed and handsome while I was born crooked. My parents alone are to blame for that: I wish they had never made me!

;_;

>>1733903
ganesha was a personal early 2000s meme for me
but he is pretty comfy

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>>1733024
Not even religious or baptized in any abrahamic religion, but I like monotheistic all-powerful gods and their fight against evil.

As for Ishtar, she's an amusing cool bitch. Once you read enough you either love or hate her, if not both.

PROMETHEUS

Literally our guy.

>>1740444
>creator, protector and guide of mankind
>make him part of Bad Guys Team
>make the big boss god torture him for eternity for petty shit

What the fuck greeks

>>1741127
he was rescued later by Heracles tou

haruhi

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Hecate and Mithra

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>>1733107
> Thug life

>>1733024
There is only one God and he sure as hell doesn't walk around naked.

>>1741127
Greeks were aware of what christians forgot: life kind of sucks so their gods were dicks. If they weren't, world wouldn't be such a shithole.

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>No one has posted the most high yet

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>>1744321
That's because I am the most high.

>>1733132
>I could be at home forging right now

>>1743455
>christians forgot
>life kind of sucks
the fuck

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Quetzalcoatl because Aztec blood flows through my veins ese.

The One True God YHWH, of course.

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Amun-Ra takes the cake for me.

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Tie between Odin and Prometheus, I also like Apollo for some reason.

>>1733933
>have blind person go outside
>explain to them that if light didn't exist they would be dead as there would be no heat on the earth's surface
There you go, god is fake, gay, dead HAIL SATAN 666, religion is a spook.
Go kill yourself, you downie troglodyte.

>>1740064

Because when the Greeks started to expand and incorporate other cultures into their own, they needed a "pedigree" for the new gods they accumulated. What better pedigree than Olympian Zeus himself? So we get a ton of stories of Zeus "romancing" formerly foreign deities in order that they might be drawn into the Greek conceptions of the divine.

tl;dr- syncretism

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Glycon is a personal favorite of mine just for how weird it is.

He was a serpent god with the face of a man with long blonde hair. His cult was popular in the mid 2nd century with his chief prophet and promoter being Alexander of Abonoteichus, who was apparently a complete charlatan who made a puppet that was supposed to be the god.

>>1740444
>Heroic figure of genius and foresight
>our guy

Pick one and only one.

>>1741127

The Titans aren't the bad guys, they're just the rivals of the Olympians. Many Titans sided with the Gods and weren't cast into Tartarus, not least Zeus's mother Rhea.

>>1745500
>I also like Apollo for some reason.

Maybe because he's baller? God of civilisation, music, plague, healing, and prophecy. Hard to find a god with a more varied or important portfolio.

Norse heathen here (yeah yeah, I don't need to hear it all again)

Odin
Tyr
Freyja
Ullr

Athena
Minerva
Apollo

Baal
Ishtar
Marduk

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I love trickster figures and their legends and I am really particular to Loki, though more the earlier stuff before he was demonized as to provide a counterpart to Satan within a duo-religious culture (though it could be argued that his fate is more deliciously Greek in nature).

I also feel that Zoroastrianism and Gnostic legends/interpretations within the Abrahamic faiths are pretty neat and put a more interesting and higher stakes spin on things, and as fedora as that sounds, I almost would have liked that the Christian doctrine wouldn't have become the Roman state religion, if only because it would have been interesting to see its then open source ideas develop and evolve further before they became a dogma.

And angels... boy, do I love their all but Lovecraftian descriptions, which I wish would influence demon design more as well, considering that they are traditionally supposed to be fallen angels and not just simple pagan cryptozoology inspired beasts.

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>tfw you'll never get to be a god's lover.
If you had to pick one god to get it on with who would you choose?
I'm stuck between Freyja and Apollo.

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Gotta love the blood baptisms.

>>1738321
How'd you get into Mayan mythology?

>>1745545
That's the Demiurge Anon.

>>1745866
The King in Yellow.

>>1745873
Why did Mithra slay the bull? What purpose did this achieve?

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>>1745866
I could do with just about any sort of girlfriend by now, a divine one doubly so.
I'm not too picky, as long as she isn't a crone or a mad hatter black widow destroyer god or something, just someone to cuddle with during the reminder of my meager mortal existence...

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>>1745545
>Alexander of Abonoteichus
>hissssssssssssss
>hisss
>ssss
>its a snek

>>1745866
Ishtar.

Because sticking your dick in crazy is always the right thing to do.

>>1740359
>As for Ishtar, she's an amusing cool bitch. Once you read enough you either love or hate her, if not both.
Inanna seriously is the best. She deserves an anime or something.

>>1745545
Go away Alan Moore.

>>1745887
I think the bull is just a sacriface.

I'm a hermes kind of guy.

>>1745941

You realise you will literally die if you try to sex Ishtar? That's why Gilgamesh rejected her, to his great cost, and despite the fact that he was her high priest.

>>1745887
To eat it