Other Your favorite deity from mythology?

Warrior Spirit

Warrior Spirit

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Let's not include the Abrahamic faiths. Those religions are tricky...

So within real life paganism, who is your favorite deity and why?

I guess mine would be Athena, the patron goddess of warriors. I've always been fascinated by ancient Sparta...
 
Probably Diana. Mostly because of the Rex Nemorensis.

Rex Nemorensis was the title of the priest of Diana in the town of Aricia, but the position differed from other priesthoods in two way. For one, it was exclusive to runaway slaves. No freeman could ever claim the title. And secondly, you had to kill the previous priest in single combat to get it.

I just love it. It sounds like something from an overly edgy fantasy novel.
 
Hecate. Goddess of magic, ghosts, crossroads, dogs and the night. I just think she's really cool and technically a titan.
 
I've always been partial towards Egyptian mythology myself. I liked Isis when I was younger, but I also like Bastet because cats.
 
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Tiamat. Cuz she lived long enough to become the villain. Mother of gods, chaos and eventually monsters. Wanted only the ebb and flow of the oceans then turned on her seed for disturbing that.

Crow and Thunderbird. Cuz Pacific Northwest Totems are amaaaaaazing. Crow is a trickster and foil. Thunderbird carries life water on their backs.
 
It would have to be Wodenaz, The Lord of Frenzy and Leader of the Possessed.

Many of you may know this deity by the Old Norse theonym Odin if you follow Norse Mythology.

From the Old English text, Maxim I:

”Woden worked idols, the All-Wielder glory
and a spacious sky—that is a powerful God,
the Truth-King himself, the Savior of Souls,
who forgave us all so that we might live onwards,
and again at the very end, he controls us,
all of mankind. That is the Measurer himself.“
 
Warrior Spirit said:
Plus, Guinefort is a French name. France back then was just like the rest of Europe... Very Catholic. lol
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Despite all image of the Church throughout history, it never had a truly absolute hold and influence over the course of European Catholicsm, let alone global Catholicsm. It established basic frameworks and during the high medieval period a near-universal legal status over most of the Catholic world at least. But it had places it could not reach and its influence ebb'd and flowed. But after the 14th century mostly started to ebb.

In the zoomed out sense Church authority was weakened by the Avignon Pact, European leaders being able to take advantage of one Pope or the other to receive a sense of legitimacy over whatever it is they were doing. French Gallicanism - the assertion that the King of France, as equal to the Pope - could have influence or a voice over local bishops in the 15th century contributed to a decline of Papal authority on the Continental level after the period of the legalistic high point of the Roman Church. Much like the 12th century (I think, not checking) fight between the Germans and the Pope over investiture.

On the micro-level it was actually very hard to control what the hell the peasants were doing or even local burghers because Europe until the 19th century was a patchwork of local customs and dialects to the point that crossing France was like crossing a half dozen different countries and only the nobility really had a common set of customs and vernacular. Only in severe religious crisis - like with he Cathars or the Hussites - could the church ever muster any particular influence to make an organized effort to fight.

So in the case of Saint Guinefort, it was a continuation of early church practice where to become a saint it was enough for people to just generally agree that you were saintly and you were a saint. But by the time the Cult of Guinefort arisen, legal traditions in the Church had developed enough that to become a Saint there was a formal process. And the church wasn't ever going to accept a dog saint. But the church wasn't really going to be able to directly suppress it and no one in Lyon was *that* interested in dealing with it: because they're peasants
 
Takehaya-Susanoo-no-Mikoto.

Just all of the stories revolving around him are batshit insane.

He nearly ended the world... twice. First when he just decided he wanted to sit down and cry. For how long did he cry? "Until the rivers ran dry and his beard grew long". He was banished for this.

So he tried to make up for it by being a folk hero. He met a family which used to have 8 daughters, but only one of them was still alive. Kushinadahime. They said that an evil monster had demanded a girl as a sacrifice every year or else he would spew poison all across the valley. So, Susanoo turned Kushinadahime into a hair comb and hid her in his hair so she would be free from the monster. The eight headed Yamata-no-orochi.

Then he bade the couple to make 8 cups of sake, strengthened eightfold, put on eight pillars under eight gates. The beast came down, started to drink of it and fell asleep from the alcohol. Then Susanoo came around, chopped off every single head. But when he was cutting off the tail his sword broke on something hard, what he drew out of the tail was a sword called Ame-no-murakumo-no-tsurugi. Later getting the nickname Kusanagi-no-tsurugi.

After this his sister, the prime diety Ametarasu requested him to prove his sincerity and show how earnest and pure of heart he was. So they would each take his beaded necklace, chew Magatama from it and would see how many children they produced. No, not from sex. From chewing necklace beads. Susanoo won and thus was allowed back to the home of the gods.

So, he decided to immediately throw a party. So he lit Ametarasu's rice fields on fire and flayed her favorite horse alive and threw it at her wiring loom, destroying it and killing the maiden.

Ametarasu, distraught from this fled from the world and hid in a cave, thus the son disappeared from the world and the world neared destruction (again) by his hand. And how was the world saved? Her friend, Ame-no-Uzume danced on an upturn pot and flashed her breasts, that got Ametarasu out of her cave. This is not the last time where Ame-no-Uzume will flash someone in order to get her way.

So yeah, Susanoo.
 
Tiamat is a great choice! I love the stories she's in!

I love reading mythology but I think my favorite is\are the Morrigan. There's some modern books about her that I love, interpreting her stories in a way that speaks to women in this age. There was this one book that wrote a lot about her, connecting her to trauma, and that book was very helpful for me back then.
 
I mentioned Athena, but I guess if I were to mention an Eastern deity, I'll pick the Asura. They are a race of demons who are condemned to live an eternity of war and combat.

I don't know about you but that sounds like paradise.
 
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