Just for fun, I've been thinking about what gods might exist in my world. For my Flat Earth game I ripped off emulated GRRM, and had a bunch of "The's" such as The Maiden and The Warrior, as well as some I made up like The Chef and The Painter.
But I had another thought. In one RPG, I have a follower of Brynhildr—who is pretty cool with the whole valkyrie thing but she didn't make the top ten list of Norse Gods. In another RPG I played on this site, I had a "fighting nun" who followed Bastet-Sekhmat. The character folioing her had somewhat of an identity crisis as did her cat goddess. I figured my huntress might prefer Artemis, virgin goddess of the hunt. I feel like she got a raw deal, considering how much respect petty Athena gets. A goddess of wisdom blames Medusa because Poseidon turned into a horse and… never mind the and. Suffice to say, Artemis was the wise one for not marrying any of those divine philanderers.
None of the above goddesses (in bold) are really underdogs, but I'm entertaining the idea of a mixed pantheon made of 12+ gods from several religion, and I'm basically picking the losers. Vulcan is awesome, yet he was tossed out of heaven by his own mother for being lame. He makes handmaidens out of gold and silver. He's like the god of nerds, and I mean that in a good way. Uke Mochi is a Shinto goddess of cooking, but she made a crappy meal and was killed. Her dead body continued to produce mullet, which according to the world's awesomest samurai movie, tastes awful. Toaism has a goddess of wig salesmen. I think I can work with that, as well as Chin Nii, the heavenly weaver girl who was banished for shirking her duty. I guess she left an emperor naked or poorly dressed or something. She should have said, "Blank him, I'm a goddess. HE bows to ME." I might even throw in Uriel the archangel. He lost a wrestling match with a mortal.
Anyway, I'm taking notes and having fun with the research. Whether I'll use it or not depends on… lots of things. Just thought I'd share this with whoever's interested. If you have similar ideas/pantheons/etc., feel free to share.
But I had another thought. In one RPG, I have a follower of Brynhildr—who is pretty cool with the whole valkyrie thing but she didn't make the top ten list of Norse Gods. In another RPG I played on this site, I had a "fighting nun" who followed Bastet-Sekhmat. The character folioing her had somewhat of an identity crisis as did her cat goddess. I figured my huntress might prefer Artemis, virgin goddess of the hunt. I feel like she got a raw deal, considering how much respect petty Athena gets. A goddess of wisdom blames Medusa because Poseidon turned into a horse and… never mind the and. Suffice to say, Artemis was the wise one for not marrying any of those divine philanderers.
None of the above goddesses (in bold) are really underdogs, but I'm entertaining the idea of a mixed pantheon made of 12+ gods from several religion, and I'm basically picking the losers. Vulcan is awesome, yet he was tossed out of heaven by his own mother for being lame. He makes handmaidens out of gold and silver. He's like the god of nerds, and I mean that in a good way. Uke Mochi is a Shinto goddess of cooking, but she made a crappy meal and was killed. Her dead body continued to produce mullet, which according to the world's awesomest samurai movie, tastes awful. Toaism has a goddess of wig salesmen. I think I can work with that, as well as Chin Nii, the heavenly weaver girl who was banished for shirking her duty. I guess she left an emperor naked or poorly dressed or something. She should have said, "Blank him, I'm a goddess. HE bows to ME." I might even throw in Uriel the archangel. He lost a wrestling match with a mortal.
Anyway, I'm taking notes and having fun with the research. Whether I'll use it or not depends on… lots of things. Just thought I'd share this with whoever's interested. If you have similar ideas/pantheons/etc., feel free to share.