Future Gods and Deities in Smite

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We all love playing Smite but many of us would love to see more and more deities in the game. So I took the courage to make a thread some time ago and put in all deities that I would love to see in the game.
So far 14 deities you suggested and I posted in this thread were added in the game. Under the deities you will see which ones.
So don't waste time and post the deity that you want to see in the game. It will be added in the thread with your name under it. The first two pages contain all pantheons that are in game and maybe future pantheons that you suggested.
(old thread in this link http://forum.hirezstudios.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=1046952#p1046952)

GREEK PANTHEON

Poseidon
God of the Sea

Poseidon or Posidon is one of the twelve Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek mythology. His main domain is the ocean, and he is called the "God of the Sea". Additionally, he is referred to as "Earth-Shaker" due to his role in causing earthquakes, and has been called the "tamer of horses". He is usually depicted as an older male with curly hair and beard. There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, although he lost the contest for Athens to Athena. According to the references from Plato in his dialogue Timaeus and Critias, the island of Atlantis was the chosen domain of Poseidon.

POSTED 02/08/2012
ADDED IN GAME 28/02/2013

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Hera
Queen of the Gods

Hera is the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion. Her chief function is as the goddess of women and marriage. The cow, lion and the peacock are sacred to her. Hera's mother is Rhea and her father Cronus. Portrayed as majestic and solemn, often enthroned, and crowned with the polos (a high cylindrical crown worn by several of the Great Goddesses), Hera may bear a pomegranate in her hand, emblem of fertile blood and death and a substitute for the narcotic capsule of the opium poppy. A scholar of Greek mythology Walter Burkert writes in Greek Religion, "Nevertheless, there are memories of an earlier aniconic representation, as a pillar in Argos and as a plank in Samos.

POSTED 08/11/2012

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Ares
God of War

Ares (Ancient Greek: ?Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â·Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½ [ar??s], Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½odern Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â·Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½ [?aris]) was the Greek god of war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent aspect of war, in contrast to the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship. The Greeks were ambivalent toward Ares: although he embodied the physical valor necessary for success in war, he was a dangerous force, "overwhelming, insatiable in battle, destructive, and man-slaughtering." Fear (Phobos) and Terror (Deimos) were yoked to his battle chariot. In the Iliad, his father Zeus tells him that he is the god most hateful to him. An association with Ares endows places and objects with a savage, dangerous, or militarized quality. His value as a war god is placed in doubt: during the Trojan War, Ares was on the losing side, while Athena, often depicted in Greek art as holding Nike (Victory) in her hand, favored the triumphant Greeks

POSTED 02/08/2012
ADDED IN GAME 04/10/2012

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Hephaestus
Smith of the Gods

Hephaestus was the Greek god of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of the gods. As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods, and was worshipped in the manufacturing and industrial centres of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. Hephaestus's symbols are a smith's hammer, anvil, and a pair of tongs.

POSTED 02/08/2012
ADDED IN GAME 30/01/2013

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Athena
Goddess of Wisdom

In Greek religion and mythology, Athena or Athene is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill. Athena is also a shrewd companion of heroes and is the goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virgin patroness of Athens. The Athenians founded the Parthenon on the Acropolis of her namesake city, Athens (Athena Parthenos), in her honour.
Athena's veneration as the patron of Athens seems to have existed from the earliest times, and was so persistent that archaic myths about her were recast to adapt to cultural changes. In her role as a protector of the city (polis), many people throughout the Greek world worshiped Athena as Athena Polias (?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¸Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â·Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½? Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â»Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¹Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¬Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½ "Athena of the city"). The city of Athens and the goddess Athena essentially bear the same name, "Athenai" meaning "[many] Athenas".

POSTED 02/08/2012

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Apollo
God of Light

Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and GrecoÃ�Â¢Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½Roman Neopaganism. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular godÃ�Â¢Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague. Amongst the god's custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over colonists, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. As the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musegetes) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo. Hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans.

POSTED 02/08/2012
ADDED IN GAME 28/03/2013

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Dionysus
God of Wine

Dionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500-1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete. He is a major, popular figure of Greek mythology and religion, and is included in some lists of the twelve Olympians. Dionysus was the last god to be accepted into Mt. Olympus. He was the youngest and the only one to have a mortal mother. His festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek theatre. He is an example of a dying god. The earliest cult images of Dionysus show a mature male, bearded and robed. He holds a fennel staff, tipped with a pine-cone and known as a thyrsus. Later images show him as a beardless, sensuous, naked or half-naked androgynous youth: the literature describes him as womanly or "man-womanish.

POSTED 06/11/2012
ADDED IN GAME 19/11/2012

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Demeter
Goddess of the Harvest

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth. Her cult titles include Sito as the giver of food or corn/grain and Thesmophoros as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society. Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that predated the Olympian pantheon. In the Linear B Mycenean Greek tablets of circa 1400-1200 BC found at Pylos, the "two mistresses and the king" are identified with Demeter, Persephone and Poseidon.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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(Demeter should be added for the following ability, Plant control. I think that ability would fit perfect to her. I expect her to have an AoE stun aswell.)

Hermes
Messenger of the Gods

Hermes was an Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology, son of Zeus and the Pleiade Maia. He was second youngest of the Olympian gods. Hermes was a god of transitions and boundaries. He was quick and cunning, and moved freely between the worlds of the mortal and divine, as emissary and messenger of the gods, intercessor between mortals and the divine, and conductor of souls into the afterlife. He was protector and patron of travelers, herdsmen, thieves, orators and wit, literature and poets, athletics and sports, invention and trade. In some myths he is a trickster, and outwits other gods for his own satisfaction or the sake of humankind. His attributes and symbols include the herma, the rooster and the tortoise, purse or pouch, winged sandals, winged cap, and his main symbol was the herald's staff, the Greek kerykeion or Latin caduceus which consisted of two snakes wrapped around a winged staff.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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(Haven't thought much about Hermes all I know is that he would be a good jungler with such amazing speed.)

Aphrodite
Goddess of Love and Beauty

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Venus. According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus's genitals and threw them into the sea, and she arose from the sea foam (aphros). According to Homer's Iliad, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Because of her beauty, other gods feared that their rivalry over her would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who, because of his ugliness and deformity, was not seen as a threat. Aphrodite had many loversÃ�Â¢Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½both gods, such as Ares, and men, such as Anchises. She played a role in the Eros and Psyche legend, and later was both Adonis's lover and his surrogate mother. Many lesser beings were said to be children of Aphrodite. Aphrodite is also known as Cytherea (Lady of Cythera) and Cypris (Lady of Cyprus) after the two cult sites, Cythera and Cyprus, which claimed to be her place of birth. Myrtle, doves, sparrows, horses, and swans were said to be sacred to her.

POSTED 04/08/2012
ADDED IN GAME 13/03/2013

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Hestia
Goddess of the Hearth

In Ancient Greek religion Hestia,(pronounced hes-tia) is the virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the family and the state. In Greek mythology she is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Hestia received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household. In the public domain, the hearth of the prytaneum functioned as her official sanctuary. With the establishment of a new colony, flame from Hestia's public hearth in the mother city would be carried to the new settlement. She sat on a plain wooden throne with a white woolen cushion and did not trouble to choose an emblem for herself.

POSTED 13/11/2012

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Kronos
Leader of Titans

In the most classic and well known version of Greek mythology, Cronus or Kronos was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Uranus, the sky. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son, Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. Cronus was usually depicted with a sickle or scythe, which was also the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of harvest.

POSTED 07/08/2012

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Oceanus
Titan of Ocean

Oceanus was a pseudo-geographical feature in classical antiquity, believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the divine personification of the World Ocean, an enormous river encircling the world.Strictly speaking, Oceanus was the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere (Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿?Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂºÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¼Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â·, oikoumene). In Greek mythology, this world-ocean was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranuss and Gaea. In Hellenistic and Roman mosaics, this Titan was often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a long beard and horns (often represented as the claws of a crab) and the lower body of a serpent. Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks. However, as geography became more accurate, Oceanus came to represent the stranger, more unknown waters of the Atlantic Ocean (also called the "Ocean Sea"), while the newcomer of a later generation, Poseidon, ruled over the Mediterranean.

POSTED 03/02/2013

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Hyperion
Titan of Light

Hyperion was one of the 12 Titans of Greek mythology, the sons and daughters of Gaia who is the physical incarnation of the Earth and Ouranos (literally meaning 'the Sky'), which were later supplanted by the Olympians. He was the brother of Cronus. He was also the lord of light, and the Titan of the east.

POSTED 03/02/2013

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Coeus
Titan of Wisdom and Farsight

In Greek mythology, Coeus was one of the Titans, the giant sons and daughters of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). Like most of the Titans he played no active part in Greek religion appears only in lists of TitansÃ�Â¢Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½but was primarily important for his descendants. With his sister, "shining" Phoebe, Coeus fathered Leto and Asteria. Leto copulated with Zeus (the son of fellow Titans Cronus and Rhea) and bore Artemis and Apollo.Along with the other Titans, Coeus was overthrown by Zeus and other Olympians. After the Titan War, he and all his brothers were banished into Tartarus by Zeus. Koios (Coeus) was the Titan of the north, wisdom and farsight. He controlled the axis, and was released from Tartarus by Demeter's grief,[citation needed] changing the seasons. Coeus fled to the north from Zeus, and was regarded as the north star Polaris.

POSTED 03/02/2013

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Mnemosyne
Titan of Memory

Mnemosyne source of the word mnemonic, was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. The titaness was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the nine Muses by Zeus. In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses. Zeus and Mnemosyne slept together for nine consecutive nights, thus birthing the nine Muses.

POSTED 03/02/2013

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Kreios
Titan of Constellations

In Greek mythology, Crius, Kreios or Krios was one of the Titans in the list given in Hesiod's Theogony, a son of Uranus and Gaia. The least individualized among them, he was overthrown in the Titanomachy. M. L. West has suggested how Hesiod filled out the complement of Titans from the core groupÃ�Â¢Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½adding three figures from the archaic tradition of Delphi, Koios, Phoibe. Among possible further interpolations among the Titans was Kreios, whose interest for Hesiod was as the father of Perses and grandfather of Hekate, for whom Hesiod was, according to West, an "enthusiastic evangelist". Crius was also the primordial god of the constellations, and was in charge of ordering the measures of the year.bJoined to fill out lists of Titans to form a total that made a match with the Twelve Olympians, Crius was inexorably involved in the ten-year-long[citation needed] war between the Olympian gods and Titans, the Titanomachy, however without any specific part to play. When the war was lost, Crius was banished along with the others to the lower level of Hades called Tartarus. From his chthonic position in the Underworld, no classical association with Aries, the "Ram" of the zodiac, is ordinarily made.

POSTED 03/02/2013

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Tethys
Titan of Rivers

In Greek mythology, Tethys , daughter of Uranus and Gaia was an archaic Titaness and aquatic sea goddess, invoked in classical Greek poetry, but not venerated in cult. Tethys was both sister and wife of Oceanus. She was mother of the chief rivers of the world known to the Greeks, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids. Considered as an embodiment of the waters of the world she also may be seen as a counterpart of Thalassa, the embodiment of the sea. During the war against the Titans, Tethys raised and educated Hera as her step-child, who was brought to her by Rhea but there are no records of active cults for Tethys in historic times.

POSTED 03/02/2013

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Theia
Titan of Bright

In Greek mythology, Theia (sometimes written Thea or Thia), also called Euryphaessa "wide-shining," was a Titan. The name Theia alone means simply. Once paired in later myths with her Titan brother Hyperion as her husband, "mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one" of the Homeric Hymn to Helios, was said to be the mother of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon), and Eos (the Dawn).

POSTED 03/02/2013

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Phoebe
Titan of Moon

In Greek mythology "radiant, bright, prophetic" Phoebe (pron.: /?fi?bi?/; Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¦Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¯Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â²Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â· Phoibe), was one of the original Titans, who were one set of sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaia. She was traditionally associated with the moon (see Selene), as in Michael Drayton's Endimion and Ph?be, (1595), the first extended treatment of the Endymion myth in English. Her consort was her brother Coeus, with whom she had two daughters, Leto, who bore Apollo and Artemis, and Asteria, a star-goddess who bore an only daughter Hecate.

POSTED 03/02/2013

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Themis
Titan of Law

Themis (Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â¼Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¹Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½) is an ancient Greek Titaness. She is described as "of good counsel", and is the embodiment of divine order, law, and custom. Themis means "divine law" rather than human ordinance, literally "that which is put in place", from the verb Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¯Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¸Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â·Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¼Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¹, tithemi, "to put".
To the ancient Greeks she was originally the organizer of the "communal affairs of humans, particularly assemblies". Moses Finley remarked of themis, as the word was used by Homer in the 8th century, to evoke the social order of the 10th- and 9th-century Greek Dark Ages. The personification of abstract concepts is characteristic of the Hellenes. The ability of the goddess Themis to foresee the future enabled her to become one of the Oracles of Delphi, which in turn led to her establishment as the goddess of divine justice. Some classical representations of Themis (illustration, above) did not show her blindfolded (because of her talent for prophecy, she had no need to be blinded) nor was she holding a sword (because she represented common consent, not coercion). The sword is also believed to represent the ability Themis had from cutting fact from fiction, to her there was no middle ground. Themis built the Oracle at Delphi and was herself oracular. According to another legend, Themis received the Oracle at Delphi from Gaia and later gave it to Phoebe.

POSTED 03/02/2013

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Iapetus
Titan of Mortal Life

In Greek mythology, Iapetus (pron.: /a???p?t?s/), also Iapetos or Japetus (Ancient Greek: ?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂµÃ�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½), was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father (by an Oceanid named Clymene or Asia) of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race. He was the Titan of Mortal Life, while his son, Prometheus, was the creator of mankind. Iapetus ("the Piercer") is the one Titan mentioned by Homer in the Iliad (8.478Ã�Â¢Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½81) as being in Tartarus with Cronus. He is a brother of Cronus, who ruled the world during the Golden Age.

POSTED 03/02/2013

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Helios
Titan of the Sun

Helios (pron.: /?hi?li.?s/; Ancient Greek: ?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â»Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¹Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½ Helios, Latinized as Helius) was the personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. Homer often calls him simply Titan or Hyperion, while Hesiod (Theogony 371) and the Homeric Hymn separate him as a son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia (Hesiod) or Euryphaessa (Homeric Hymn) and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn. The names of these three were also the common Greek words for Sun, Moon and dawn. Ovid also calls him Titan. Helios was imagined as a handsome god crowned with the shining aureole of the Sun, who drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night. Homer described Helios's chariot as drawn by solar steeds (Iliad xvi.779); later Pindar described it as drawn by "fire-darting steeds" (Olympian Ode 7.71). Still later, the horses were given fiery names: Pyrois, Aeos, Aethon, and Phlegon.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Atlas
Titan of Endurance

In Greek mythology, Atlas (/??tl?s/; Ancient Greek: ?Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â»Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½) was the primordial Titan who held up the celestial sphere. Although associated with various places, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa (Modern-day Morocco and Algeria). Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia or Klymene (Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â»Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¼Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â·). In contexts where a Titan and a Titaness are assigned each of the seven planetary powers, Atlas is paired with Phoebe and governs the moon. He had three brothers: Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius. Hyginus emphasises the primordial nature of Atlas by making him the son of Aether and Gaia. The first part of the term "Atlantic Ocean" refers to "Sea of Atlas", the term "Atlantis" refers to "island of Atlas". Atlas and his brother Menoetius sided with the Titans in their war against the Olympians, the Titanomachy. When the Titans were defeated, many of them (including Menoetius) were confined to Tartarus, but Zeus condemned Atlas to stand at the western edge of Gaia (the Earth) and hold up Uranus (the Sky) on his shoulders, to prevent the two from resuming their primordial embrace. Thus, he was Atlas Telamon, "enduring Atlas," and became a doublet of Koios, the embodiment of the celestial axis around which the heavens revolve.

POSTED 10/09/2012

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Prometheus
Titan and Champion of Mankind

Prometheus (Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¼Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â·Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¸Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂµÃ�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½) is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who, in Greek mythology, is credited with the creation of man from clay and the theft of fire for human use, an act that enabled progress and civilization. He is known for his intelligence, and as a champion of humanity. The punishment of Prometheus as a consequence of the theft is a major theme of his mythology, and is a popular subject of both ancient and modern art. Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, sentenced the Titan to eternal torment for his transgression. The immortal Prometheus was bound to a rock, where each day an eagle, the emblem of Zeus, was sent to feed on his liver, only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day. In some stories, Prometheus is freed at last by the hero Heracles (Hercules). In another of his myths, Prometheus establishes the form of animal sacrifice practiced in ancient Greek religion. Evidence of a cult to Prometheus himself is not widespread. He was a focus of religious activity mainly at Athens, where he was linked to Athena and Hephaestus, other Greek deities of creative skills and technology.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Chronos
Primordial Being of Time

Chronos (Ancient Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â§Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, "time," also transliterated as Khronos or Latinized as Chronus) is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. Chronos was imagined as a god, serpentine in form, with three headsÃ�Â¢Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½those of a man, a bull, and a lion. He and his consort, serpentine Ananke (Inevitability), circled the primal world egg in their coils and split it apart to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky. Chronos was confused, or perhaps consciously identified due to the similarity in name, with the Titan Cronus already in antiquity,the identification becoming more widespread during the Renaissance, giving rise to the allegory of "Father Time" wielding the harvesting scythe. He was depicted in mosaics as a man turning the Zodiac Wheel. Chronos, however, might also be contrasted with the deity Aion as Eternal Time. Chronos is usually portrayed through an old, wise man with a long, grey beard, such as "Father Time". Some of the current English words whose etymological root is khronos/chronos include chronology, chronometer, chronic, anachronism, and chronicle.

POSTED 02/02/2013

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Pontos
Primordial Being of Ocean

In Greek mythology, Pontus or Pontos (Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½) (English translation: "sea") was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, one of the Greek primordial deities. Pontus was Gaia's son and, according to the Greek poet Hesiod, he was born without coupling. For Hesiod, Pontus seems little more than a personification of the sea, ho pontos, "the Road", by which Hellenes signified the Mediterranean Sea. With Gaia, he fathered Nereus (the Old Man of the Sea), Thaumas (the awe-striking "wonder" of the Sea, embodiment of the sea's dangerous aspects), Phorcys and his sister-consort Ceto, and the "Strong Goddess" Eurybia. With the sea goddess Thalassa (whose own name simply means "sea" but is derived from a pre-Greek root), he fathered the Telchines and all sea life.

POSTED 02/02/2013

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Gaia
Primordial Being of the Earth

Gaia (pron.: /??e?.?/ or /??a?.?/; from Ancient Greek Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±, a poetical form of Ge Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½?, "land" or "earth"; also Gaea, or Ge) was the goddess or personification of Earth in ancient Greek religion, one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia was the great mother of all: the heavenly gods, the Titans and the Giants were born from her union with Uranus (the sky), while the sea-gods were born from her union with Pontus (the sea).

POSTED 07/08/2012

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Ouranos
Primordial Being of the Sky

Uranus (pron.: /?j??r?n?s/ or /j??re?n?s/; Ancient Greek Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½?Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, Ouranos meaning "sky" or "heaven") was the primal Greek god personifying the sky. In Ancient Greek literature, Uranus or Father Sky was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether as his father. Uranus and Gaia were the parents of the first generation of Titans, and the ancestors of most of the Greek gods, but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times, and Uranus does not appear among the usual themes of Greek painted pottery. Elemental Earth, Sky and Styx might be joined, however, in a solemn invocation in Homeric epic.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Aether
Primordial Being of Light

In Greek mythology, Aether (?there, Ancient Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¸Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â®Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, pronounced [ajt????r]), also known as Acmon, is one of the primordial deities, the first-born elementals. His name means "light" in ancient Greek. Aether is the personification and elemental god of "the bright, glowing upper air of heaven - the substance of light". He embodies the pure upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to the normal air (?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â®Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, aer) breathed by mortals. Like Tartarus and Erebus, Aether may have had shrines in Hella, but he had no temples, and it is unlikely that he had a cult. Aether was the father of Ouranos, the god of the sky. While Aether was the personification of the upper air, Ouranos was literally the sky itself, composed of a solid dome of brass.

POSTED 22/08/2012

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Khaos
Primordial Being of Chaos

Khaos (or Chaos) was the first of the Protogenoi (primeval gods) to emerge at the creation of the universe. He was followed in quick succession by Gaia (Earth), Tartaros (the Underworld) and Eros (Love the life-bringer). Khaos, refers to the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths, more specifically the initial "gap" created by the original separation of heaven and earth.

POSTED 22/08/2012

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Erebus
Primordial Being of Darkness

In Greek mythology, Erebus (pron.: /??r?b?s/), also Erebos (Ancient Greek: ?Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂµÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â²Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, "deep darkness, shadow"), was often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness; for instance, Hesiod's Theogony places him as one of the first five beings to come into existence from Chaos. Erebus features little in Greek mythological tradition and literature, but is said to have fathered several other deities by Nyx; depending on the source of the mythology, this union includes Aether, Hemera, the Hesperides, Hypnos, the Moirai, Geras, Styx, and Thanatos. In Greek literature the name Erebus is also used to refer to a region of the Underworld where the dead had to pass immediately after dying, and is sometimes used interchangeably with Tartarus.

POSTED 22/08/2012

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Nyx
Primordial Being of Night

Nyx (Ancient Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¾, "night") is the Greek goddess (or personification) of the night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation, and was the mother of other personified gods such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death). Her appearances in mythology are sparse, but reveal her as a figure of exceptional power and beauty. She is found in the shadows of the world and only ever seen in glimpses.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Hemera
Primordial Being of Day

In Greek mythology Hemera (Ancient Greek: ?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¼Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂÃ�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±, "day", pronounced [h??mera]) was the personification of day and one of the Greek primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebos and Nyx (the goddess of night). Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's De Natura Deorum, where it is logically determined that Dies (Hemera) must be a god, if Uranus is a god. The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Hyginus in his preface to the Fabulae mentions Chaos as the mother/father and Nyx as her sister.She was the female counterpart of her brother and consort, Aether (Light), but neither of them figured actively in myth or cult. Hyginus lists their children as Uranus, Gaia, and Thalassa (the primordial sea goddess), while Hesiod only lists Thalassa as their child.

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Phanes or Protogonos
Primordial Being of Birth

Phanes (Ancient Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¦Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¬Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â·Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, from Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¯Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, phaino, "I bring to light"), or Protogonos (Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â³Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, "First-born"), was the mystic primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life, who was introduced into Greek mythology by the Orphic tradition; other names for this Classical Greek Orphic concept included Ericapaeus (?Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¹Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂºÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â±Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½ or ?Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¹Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂºÃ�ï¿½Ã�ÂµÃ�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½ "power"[citation needed]) and Metis ("thought"). In these myths Phanes is often equated with Eros and Mithras and has been depicted as a deity emerging from a cosmic egg, entwined with a serpent. He had a helmet and had broad, golden wings.

POSTED 02/02/2013

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Ananke
Primordial Being of Necessity

In Greek mythology, Ananke, also spelled Anangke, Anance, or Anagke (Ancient Greek: ?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¬Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â³Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂºÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â·, from the common noun ?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¬Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â³Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂºÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â·, "force, constraint, necessity"), was the personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle. She marks the beginning of the cosmos, along with Chronos. She was seen as the most powerful dictator of all fate and circumstance which meant that mortals, as well as the Gods, respected her and paid homage. Although she was not the mother of the Fates, she is the only one to have control over their decisions.

POSTED 02/02/2013

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Eros
Primordial Being of Love

Eros (/???r?s/, US: /??r?s/; Ancient Greek: ?Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, "Desire"), in Greek mythology, was the Greek god of sexual passionate love. Eros appears in ancient Greek sources under several different guises. In the earliest sources he is one of the primordial gods involved in the coming into being of the cosmos. But in later sources, Eros is represented as the son of Aphrodite whose mischievous interventions in the affairs of gods and mortals cause bonds of love to form, often illicitly. Ultimately, in the later satirical poets, he is represented as a blindfolded child Ã�Â¢Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½ whereas in early Greek poetry and art, Eros was depicted as an adult male who embodies sexual power.

POSTED 04/08/2012
ADDED IN GAME 17/08/2012

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(Roman mythology uses deities from Greek Mythology with different names. Cupid is the name in the game but Eros is the real one)

Thalassa
Primordial Being of Sea

In Greek mythology, Thalassa (Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¬Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â»Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±, "sea") is a primordial sea goddess, daughter of Aether and Hemera. With sea god Pontus, she was the mother of the nine Telchines and Halia. Sometimes, she was thought of as the mother of Aphrodite with Uranus or with Zeus. Alternative names are Thalatta and Thalath.

POSTED 02/02/2013

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Tartarus
Primordial Being of UnderWorld

In classic mythology, below Uranus (sky), Gaia (earth), and Pontus (sea) is Tartarus, or Tartaros (Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¤Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¬Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, from Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¬Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½ "tartar encrusting the sides of casks"). It is a deep, gloomy place, a pit, or an abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides beneath the underworld. In the Gorgias, Plato (c. 400 BC) wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus. Like other primal entities (such as the earth and time), Tartarus is also a primordial force or deity. Tartarus was used as a prison for the worst of villains, including Cronus and the other Titans who were thrown in by Zeus. Uranus also threw his own children into Tartarus because he feared they might overthrow him. These mishaps included the "hundred-handed-ones", the "cyclops" and the "giants".

POSTED 02/02/2013

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Rhea
Mother of the Gods

Rhea was the Titaness daughter of the sky god Uranus and the earth goddess Gaia, in Greek mythology. In early traditions, she was known as "the mother of gods" and was therefore strongly associated with Gaia and Cybele, who had similar functions. The classical Greeks saw her as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, but not as an Olympian goddess in her own right.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Nike
Goddess of Victory

In Greek mythology, Nike (Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¯Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂºÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â·, "Victory") was a goddess who personified victory, also known as the Winged Goddess of Victory. The Roman equivalent was Victoria. Nike and her siblings were close companions of Zeus, the dominant deity of the Greek pantheon. According to classical (later) myth, Styx brought them to Zeus when the god was assembling allies for the Titan War against the older deities. Nike assumed the role of the divine charioteer, a role in which she often is portrayed in Classical Greek art. Nike flew around battlefields rewarding the victors with glory and fame.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Phobos
God of Fear

Phobos (Ancient Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¦Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â²Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, meaning "fear" or "terror") is the personification of fear in Greek mythology. He is the offspring of Aphrodite and Ares. He was known for accompanying Ares into battle along with the ancient war goddess Enyo, the goddess of discord Eris (both sisters of Ares), and Phobos' twin brother Deimos. Phobos often is depicted as having a lionÃ�Â¢Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½s or lion-like head.

POSTED 20/12/2012

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Deimos
God of Terror

In Greek mythology, Deimos (Ancient Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Âµ?Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¼Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, meaning "dread") was the personification of terror.He was the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He is the twin brother of Phobos and the goddess Enyo who accompanied Ares into battle, as well as his father's attendants, Trembling, Fear, Dread and Panic. Deimos is more of a personification and an abstraction of the sheer terror that is brought by war and he never appeared as an actual character in any story in Greek Mythology.

POSTED 20/12/2012

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Hypnos
God of Sleep

Hypnos (Ancient Greek: ?Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, "sleep") was the personification of sleep. His twin was Thanatos (Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¬Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â±Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, "death"). His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines. At the entrance were a number of poppies and other hypnogogic plants. His dwelling has no door or gate so that he might not be awakened by the creaking of hinges. Hypnos was portrayed as a naked youthful man, sometimes with a beard, and wings attached to his head. He is sometimes shown as a man asleep on a bed of feathers with black curtains about him.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Phobetor
God of Nightmares

In Greek mythology, Phobetor ("frightening"), Ikelos, Icelos or Icelus was one of the Oneiroi, the personifications of dreaming. The Phobetor had the ability to appear in the mortal realm in the guise of various animals and could change their physical forms at will in order to interact with mortals in the waking world. Phobetor was the personification of nightmares and appeared in dreams in the form of animals or monsters. Among the gods he was known by his true name, Icelus (Ikelos "semblance"). Together with his brothers, Phobetor resided in the land of dreams (Demos Oneiroi), a part of the underworld.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Morpheus
God of Dreams

Morpheus ( Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂµÃ�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, Morpheus, or Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¿Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â±Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, Morpheas, "shaper [of dreams]") in Greek mythology is the god of dreams, leader of the Oneiroi. Morpheus has the ability to take any human form and appear in dreams. His true semblance is that of a winged daemon, imagery shared with many of his siblings.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Asclepius
God of Medicine

Asclepius (Greek: ?Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�ÂºÃ�ï¿½Ã�Â»Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â·Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¹Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½ Asklepios) is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek religion. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters are Hygieia ("Hygiene", the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation), Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (the goddess of the healing process), Agl?a/?gle (the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment), and Panacea (the goddess of universal remedy). He was associated with the Roman/Etruscan god Vediovis. He was one of Apollo's sons, sharing with Apollo the epithet Paean ("the Healer"). The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff, remains a symbol of medicine today.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Talos
The Bronze Giant

In Greek mythology, Talos (pron.: /?t??l?s/; Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¤Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¬Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â»Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½, Talos) or Talon (pron.: /?t??l?n/; Greek: Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¤Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â¬Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â»Ã�ï¿½Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã�ï¿½Ã�Â½, Talon) was a giant man of bronze who protected Europa in Crete from pirates and invaders by circling the island's shores three times daily while guarding it.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Continuing GREEK PANTHEON

Heracles
Gatekeeper of Olympus

Heracles (pron.: /?h?r?kli?z/ HERR-?-kleez; Ancient Greek: ?ρακλ?ς, Herakles, from Hera, "Hera", and kleos, "glory"), born Alcaeus (?λκα?ος, Alkaios) or Alcides (?λκείδης, Alkeides), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson (and half-brother) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae (?ρακλε?δαι) and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. Extraordinary strength, courage, ingenuity, and sexual prowess with both males and females were among his characteristic attributes. Heracles used his wits on several occasions when his strength did not suffice, such as when laboring for the king Augeas of Elis, wrestling the giant Antaeus, or tricking Atlas into taking the sky back onto his shoulders. Together with Hermes he was the patron and protector of gymnasia and palaestrae. His iconographic attributes are the lion skin and the club.

POSTED 04/08/2012
ADDED IN GAME 09/01/2013

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(He could have a sword or use bare hands but he should have amazing physical damage.)

Leonidas
King of Sparta

Leonidas I (/li???n?d?s/ lee-ON-i-d?s or /li???n.?.d?s/; Doric and Modern Greek: Λεωνίδας, Leonidas; Ionic Greek: Λεωνίδης, Leonides; "son of the lion"; died 480 BC), also known as Leonidas the Brave was a Greek hero-king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line, third son of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, who was believed to be a descendant of Heracles, possessing much of the latter's strength and bravery. Leonidas is notable for his leadership at the Battle of Thermopylae.

POSTED 09/02/2013

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Perseus
Greek Hero Who Claimed Andromeda

Perseus (Greek: Περσεύς), the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty of Danaans there, was the first of the heroes of Greek mythology whose exploits in defeating various archaic monsters provided the founding myths of the Twelve Olympians. Perseus was the Greek hero who killed the Gorgon Medusa, and claimed Andromeda, having rescued her from a sea monster sent by Poseidon in retribution for Queen Cassiopeia declaring that her daughter, Andromeda, was more beautiful than the Nereids.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Jason
Greek Hero Leader of the Argonauts

In Greek mythology, Jason was the leader of a band of adventurers who set out on a long journey to find the Golden Fleece*. Although he succeeded in this quest, he never achieved his true goal—to become king of the land of Iolcus. Jason's story is one of violence and tragedy as well as adventure, partly because of his relationship with the enchantress and witch Medea.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Odysseus
The Cunning

Odysseus was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and a hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same Epic Cycle. Husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laertes (or Sisyphus) and Anticlea, Odysseus is renowned for his brilliance, guile and versatility (polytropos), and is hence known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (metis, or "cunning intelligence"). He is most famous for the ten eventful years he took to return home after the ten-year Trojan War and his famous Trojan Horse trick to capture the city of Troy.

POSTED 15/01/2013

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(If we need heroes in the game this one is one of the few ones that must be added)

Thanatos (The Grim Reaper)
Angel of Death

Death is often given the name Grim Reaper came to be shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe and clothed in a black cloak with a hood. It is also given the name of the Angel of Death. The Spectre of Death is only a psychopomp, serving to sever the last ties between the soul and the body and to guide the deceased to the next world without having any control over the fact of the victim's death. In ancient Greece Death is represented as Thanatos , a god who his job was to escort the dead to the underworld

POSTED 02/08/2012

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(I know , I know , we already have Hades from Greek Pantheon and more gods of death/darkness etc like Anubis , but Reaper is a god and is a classic figure. I think Reaper is a MUST add too.)

Tyche (Fortuna)
Goddess of Fortune

Tyche (English /?ta?ki/; from Greek: Τύχη, meaning "luck"; Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. Tyche was a noble but stern goddess who opposed evils of the society and punished those unworthy of good with misfortune and kind people with good luck. She was the most influential goddess throughout the legacy of Greece and was also adopted by Rome as their most important goddess, Fortuna, hence deriving the term, fortune.

POSTED 03/12/2012

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Aeolus
God of Winds

Aeolus a name shared by three mythic characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which. Diodorus Siculus made an attempt to define each of these three (although it is clear he also became muddled), and his opinion is followed here. Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

POSTED 18/08/2012

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POSTED 04/08/2012
ADDED IN GAME 09/01/2013

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(He could have a sword or use bare hands but he should have amazing physical damage.)

POSTED 09/02/2013

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POSTED 21/12/2012

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POSTED 15/01/2013

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(If we need heroes in the game this one is one of the few ones that must be added)

POSTED 03/12/2012

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POSTED 18/08/2012

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Proteus
The Old Man of the Sea

In Greek mythology, Proteus (Πρωτεύς) is an early sea-god, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea". Some who ascribe to him a specific domain call him the god of "elusive sea change," which suggests the constantly changing nature of the sea or the liquid quality of water in general. He can foretell the future, but, in a mytheme familiar to several cultures, will change his shape to avoid having to; he will answer only to someone who is capable of capturing him. From this feature of Proteus comes the adjective protean, with the general meaning of "versatile", "mutable", "capable of assuming many forms". "Protean" has positive connotations of flexibility, versatility and adaptability.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Triton
Messenger of the Sea

Triton (Greek: Τρίτων, gen: Τρίτωνος) is a mythological Greek god, the messenger of the sea. He is the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, god and goddess of the sea respectively, and is herald for his father. He is usually represented as a merman, having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish, "sea-hued", according to Ovid "his shoulders barnacled with sea-shells". Like his father, Poseidon, he carried a trident. However, Triton's special attribute was a twisted conch shell, on which he blew like a trumpet to calm or raise the waves. Its sound was such a cacophony, that when loudly blown, it put the giants to flight, who imagined it to be the roar of a dark wild beast.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Atalanta
The Virgin Huntress

Atalanta (Ancient Greek: ?ταλάντη, Atalante) is a virgin huntress who faces misunderstanding for refusing to follow gender norms. Atalanta was the daughter of Iasus (or Mainalos or Schoeneus, according to Hyginus), a Boeotian (according to Hesiod) or an Arcadian princess (according to the Bibliotheca). She is often described as a goddess. The Bibliotheca is the only one who gives an account of Atalanta’s birth and upbringing. King Iasus wanted a son; when Atalanta was born, he left her on a mountaintop to die. Some stories say that a she-bear suckled and cared for Atalanta until hunters found and raised her, and she learned to fight and hunt as a bear would. She was later reunited with her father.Having grown up in the wilderness, Atalanta became a fierce hunter and was always happy. She took an oath of virginity to the goddess Artemis.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Bellerophon
Greek Hero Slayer of Monsters

Bellerophon or Bellerophontes (Βελλεροφόντης) is a hero of Greek mythology. He was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles", whose greatest feat was killing the Chimera, a monster that Homer depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail: "her breath came out in terrible blasts of burning flame.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Daedalus
The Clever Worker

In Greek mythology, Daedalus ( meaning "clever worker") was a skillful craftsman and artisan. He is the father of Icarus and Iapyx and the uncle of Perdix. Daedalus is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne. He also created the Labyrinth on Crete.

POSTED 14/12/2012

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Nemesis
Goddess of Revenge

Nemesis was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris (arrogance before the gods). The Greeks personified vengeful fate as a remorseless goddess: the goddess of revenge. The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word νέμειν [nemein], meaning "to give what is due"

POSTED 10/09/2012

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Pan
The God of Nature

Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music, and companion of the nymphs. His name originates within the Ancient Greek language, from the word paein meaning "to pasture." He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring. The ancient Greeks also considered Pan to be the god of theatrical criticism.

POSTED 17/11/2012

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Eris
Goddess of Strife and Discord

Eris ("Strife") is the Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord, her name being translated into Latin as Discordia. Her Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Latin counterpart is Concordia. Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart is Bellona. The dwarf planet Eris is named after the goddess, as is the religion Discordianism.

POSTED 03/08/2012

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Hecate
Goddess of Necromancy and Sorcery

Hecate or Hekate is an ancient goddess, frequently depicted in triple form and variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, fire, light, the Moon, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, necromancy, and sorcery. She has rulership over earth, sea and sky, as well as a more universal role as Saviour (Soteira), Mother of Angels and the Cosmic World Soul.

POSTED 15/11/2012

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Persephone
Queen of the UnderWorld

In Greek mythology, Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and the harvest-goddess Demeter, and queen of the underworld. Homer describes her as the formidable, venerable majestic queen of the shades, who carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead. Persephone was abducted by Hades, the god-king of the underworld. The myth of her abduction represents her function as the personification of vegetation which shoots forth in spring and withdraws into the earth after harvest; hence she is also associated with spring and with the seeds of the fruits of the fields.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Charon
Ferryman of the UnderWorld

In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (Greek Χάρων) is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years. In the catabasis mytheme, heroes — such as Heracles, Orpheus, Aeneas, Dante, Dionysus and Psyche — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Medusa
The Snake-Haired Gorgon

In Greek mythology Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα (Medousa), "guardian, protectress") was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazing directly upon her would turn onlookers to stone. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, though the author Hyginus interposes a generation and gives Medusa another chthonic pair as parents.

POSTED 27/09/2012

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Cerberus
Guardian of the Underworld

In Greek mythology, is a multi-headed hound (usually three-headed) which guards the gates of the Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping. the three-heads each respectively see and represent the past, the present, and the future, while other sources suggest the heads represent birth, youth, and old age. Each of Cerberus' heads is said to have an appetite only for live meat and thus allow only the spirits of the dead to freely enter the underworld, but allow none to leave. Cerberus was always employed as Hades' loyal watchdog, and guarded the gates that granted access and exit to the underworld

POSTED 27/09/2012

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Chiron
The Half Man-Half Horse Creature

In Greek mythology, Chiron /?ka?r?n/ (also Cheiron or Kheiron; Greek: Χείρων "hand") was held to be the superlative centaur among his brethren. The head, torso, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse, centaurs are a Large size. Centaurs are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. Centaurs are said to be extremely heavy drinkers, and were usually depicted as beasts. They were thought to carry bows and are very short tempered Creatures.But most Centaurs are good and work against evil.

POSTED 06/10/2012

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Manticore
The Man-Eater

It has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), and a trumpet-like voice. Other aspects of the creature vary from story to story. It may be horned, winged, or both. The tail is that of either a dragon or a scorpion, and it may shoot poisonous spines to either paralyze or kill its victims. It devours its prey whole and leaves no clothes, bones, or possessions of the prey behind. According to myth these monsters were driven deep below the Earth by Greek Gods, and were watched over by Hades. Every so often a Manticore will find its way to the surface, and escape, but since they are repelled by both the light from the moon, and the sun, they only appear on a new moon.

POSTED 07/08/2012

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Lernaean Hydra
The Nine-Headed Water Serpent

It was an ancient nameless serpent-like chthonic water beast, with reptilian traits (as its name evinces), that possessed many heads — the poets mention more heads than the vase-painters could paint, and for each head cut off it grew two more — and poisonous breath so virulent even her tracks were deadly.

POSTED 27/09/2012

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Nemean Lion
The First Labor of Heracles

The Nemean lion was a vicious monster in Greek mythology that lived at Nemea. It was eventually killed by Heracles. It could not be killed with mortal weapons because its golden fur was impervious to attack. Its claws were sharper than mortal swords and could cut through any armor.

POSTED 13/11/2012

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Ketos
The Serpentine Fish

In ancient Greek, the word ketos (Ancient Greek: Κ?τος, Ketos, plural cetea Ancient Greek: κήτεα) - Latinized as cetus - denotes a large fish, a whale, a shark, or a sea monster. The sea monsters slain by Perseus and Heracles were each referred to as a cetus by ancient sources. The term cetacean originates from cetus. In Greek art, cetea were depicted as serpentine fish. The name of the mythological figure Ceto is derived from ketos. The name of the constellation Cetus also derives from this word.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Scylla
Monster Naiad

In Greek mythology, Scylla (pron.: /?s?l?/ SIL-?; Greek: Σκύλλα, Skylla) was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa. Scylla was the daughter of the river god Crataeis and was loved by Glaucus, but Glaucus himself was also loved by the sorceress Circe. While Scylla was bathing in the sea, the jealous Circe poured a potion into the sea water which caused Scylla to transform into a monster with four eyes, six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Her body consisted of twelve tentacle-like legs and a cat's tail while four to six dog-heads ringed her waist. In this form she attacked the ships of passing sailors, seizing one of the crew with each of her heads.

POSTED 02/02/2013

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Echidna
Mother of All Monsters

Echidna (meaning "she viper") was half woman half snake, known as the "Mother of All Monsters" because most of the monsters in Greek myth were mothered by her. Echidna was a drakaina, with the face and torso of a beautiful woman (depicted as winged in archaic vase-paintings) and the body of a serpent, sometimes having two serpent's tails.

POSTED 07/11/2012

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(This is a must add. Smite needs the mother of all monsters)

Typhon
Father of All Monsters

Typhon (pron.: /?ta?f?n/; Ancient Greek: Τυφ?ν, Tuphon, [typ????n]), also Typhoeus (Τυφωεύς, Tuphoeus), Typhaon (Τυφάων, Tuphaon) or Typhos (Τυφώς, Tuphos) was the last son of Gaia, fathered by Tartarus, and the most deadly monster of Greek mythology. He was known as the "Father of all monsters"; his wife Echidna was likewise the "Mother of All Monsters." Typhon was described in pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke, as the largest and most fearsome of all creatures. His human upper half reached as high as the stars. His hands reached east and west and, instead of a human head, he had a hundred dragon heads; some however depict him as having a human head and the dragon heads being attached to his hands instead of fingers. He was feared even by the mighty gods. His bottom half was gigantic viper coils that could reach the top of his head when stretched out and made a hissing noise. His whole body was covered in wings, and fire flashed from his eyes. Typhon attempts to destroy Zeus at the will of Gaia, because Zeus had imprisoned the Titans. Typhon overcomes Zeus in their first battle, and tears out Zeus' sinews. However, Hermes recovers the sinews and restores them to Zeus. Typhon is finally defeated by Zeus, who traps him underneath Mount Etna.

POSTED 03/02/2013

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EGYPTIAN PANTHEON

Anhur
Slayer of the Enemies

In early Egyptian mythology, Anhur (also spelled Onuris, Onouris, An-Her, Anhuret, Han-Her, Inhert) was originally a god of war who was worshipped in the Egyptian area of Abydos, and particularly in Thinis. Myths told that he had brought his wife, Mehit, who was his female counterpart, from Nubia, and his name reflects this—it means (one who) leads back the distant one. One of his titles was Slayer of Enemies. Anhur was depicted as a bearded man wearing a robe and a headdress with four feathers, holding a spear or lance, or occasionally as a lion-headed god (representing strength and power). In some depictions, the robe was more similar to a kilt. Due to his position as a war god, he was patron of the ancient Egyptian army, and the personification of royal warriors. Indeed, at festivals honoring him, mock battles were staged. During the Roman era the Emperor Tiberius was depicted on the walls of Egyptian temples wearing the distinctive four-plumed crown of Anhur. Anhur's name also could mean Sky Bearer and, due to the shared headdress, Anhur was later identified with Shu, becoming Anhur-Shu.

POSTED 02/08/2012
ADDED IN GAME 03/08/2012

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(By the way Anhur was in my list but I delayed too much with my post and he has been already added in the game.)

Amun
King of the Gods

Amun (also Amon, Amen, Greek ?μμων Ammon, ?μμων Hammon) was a local deity of Thebes. He was attested since the Old Kingdom together with his spouse Amaunet. With the 11th dynasty (ca. 21st century BC), he rose to the position of patron deity of Thebes by replacing Monthu. After the rebellion of Thebes against the Hyksos and with the rule of Ahmose I, Amun acquired national importance, expressed in his fusion with the Sun god, Ra, as Amun-Ra. Amun-Ra retained chief importance in the Egyptian pantheon throughout the New Kingdom (with the exception of the "Atenist heresy" under Akhenaten). Amun-Ra in this period (16th to 11th centuries BC) held the position of transcendental, self-created creator deity "par excellence", he was the champion of the poor or troubled and central to personal piety. His position as King of Gods developed to the point of virtual monotheism where other gods became manifestations of him. With Osiris, Amun-Ra is the most widely recorded of the Egyptian gods

POSTED 02/08/2012

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Horus
God of the King and Vengeance

Horus is one of the oldest and most significant deities in ancient Egyptian religion, who was worshipped from at least the late Predynastic period through to Greco-Roman times. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history, and these are treated as distinct gods by Egypt specialists. These various forms may possibly be different perceptions of the same multi-layered deity in which certain attributes or syncretic relationships are emphasized, not necessarily in opposition but complementary to one another, consistent with how the Ancient Egyptians viewed the multiple facets of reality. He was most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner or peregrine, or as a man with a falcon head. The earliest recorded form of Horus is the patron deity of Nekhen in Upper Egypt, who is the first known national god, specifically related to the king who in time came to be regarded as a manifestation of Horus in life and Osiris in death. The most commonly encountered family relationship describes Horus as the son of Isis and Osiris but in another tradition Hathor is regarded as his mother and sometimes as his wife. Horus served many functions in the Egyptian pantheon, most notably being the god of the sun, war and protection.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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(Looks Cool)

Osiris
God of Alterlife

Osiris (pron.: /o??sa??r?s/; Ancient Greek: ?σιρις, also Usiris; the Egyptian language name is variously transliterated Asar, Asari, Aser, Ausar, Ausir, Wesir, Usir, Usire or Ausare) was an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. Osiris was considered not only a merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the underworld agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River. He was described as the "Lord of love", "He Who is Permanently Benign and Youthful" and the "Lord of Silence". The Kings of Egypt were associated with Osiris in death — as Osiris rose from the dead they would, in union with him, inherit eternal life through a process of imitative magic. By the New Kingdom all people, not just pharaohs, were believed to be associated with Osiris at death, if they incurred the costs of the assimilation rituals. Through the hope of new life after death, Osiris began to be associated with the cycles observed in nature, in particular vegetation and the annual flooding of the Nile, through his links with Orion and Sirius at the start of the new year.[8] Osiris was widely worshipped as Lord of the Dead.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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(Yes another god of the underworld but this one is different.)

Set
God of the Desert

Set (pron.: /s?t/) or Seth (/s?θ/; also spelled Setesh, Sutekh, Setekh, or Suty) is a god of the desert, storms, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. In later myths he is also the god of darkness, and chaos. In Ancient Greek, the god's name is given as Seth (Σήθ). In Egyptian mythology, Set is portrayed as the usurper that killed and mutilated his own brother Osiris. Osiris' wife Isis reassembled Osiris' corpse and embalmed him. Osiris' son Horus sought revenge upon Set, and the myths describe their conflicts. The death of Osiris and the battle between Horus and Set is a popular event in Egyptian mythology.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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(Although he looks like Anubis he would be awesome in the game if he could summon desert tornadoes etc.)

Geb
God of the Earth

Geb was the Egyptian god of the Earth and a member of the Ennead of Heliopolis. It was believed in ancient Egypt that Geb's laughter were earthquakes and that he allowed crops to grow. The oldest representation in a fragmentary relief of the god, was as an anthropomorphic bearded being accompanied by his name, and dating from king Djoser's reign, 3rd Dynasty, and was found in Heliopolis. In later times he could also be depicted as a ram, a bull or a crocodile (the latter in a vignet of the Book of the Dead - papyrus of the lady Heryweben in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo). Frequently described mythologically as father of snakes (one of the names for snake was s3-t3 - 'son of the earth' and in a Coffin Texts-spell Geb was described as father of the snake Nehebkau, while his mother was in that case Neith) and therefore depicted sometimes as such.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Atum
God of Creation

Atum /?-tum/, sometimes rendered as Atem or Tem, is an important deity in Egyptian mythology. In the Heliopolitan creation myth, Atum was considered to be the first god, having created himself, sitting on a mound (benben) (or identified with the mound itself), from the primordial waters (Nu). Early myths state that Atum created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut by spitting them out of his mouth.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Hapi
God of Floods

Hapi, was the god of the Nile and its annual flood in Ancient Egyptian religion. The flood deposited rich silt on the river's banks, allowing the Egyptians to grow crops. His name means Running One, probably referring to the current of the Nile. Some of the titles of Hapi were, Lord of the Fishes and Birds of the Marshes and Lord of the River Bringing Vegetation. He is typically depicted as a man with a large belly wearing a loincloth, having long hair and having pendulous, female-like breasts.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Hathor
Goddess of Love

Hathor (pron.: /?h?θ?r/ or /?h?θ?r/; Egyptian: ?wt-?r, "mansion of Horus") is an Ancient Egyptian goddess who personified the principles of joy, feminine love, and motherhood.[3] She was one of the most important and popular deities throughout the history of Ancient Egypt. Hathor was worshiped by Royalty and common people alike in whose tombs she is depicted as "Mistress of the West" welcoming the dead into the next life. In other roles she was a goddess of music, dance, foreign lands and fertility who helped women in childbirth,[4] as well as the patron goddess of miners. The cult of Hathor predates the historic period, and the roots of devotion to her are therefore difficult to trace, though it may be a development of predynastic cults which venerated fertility, and nature in general, represented by cows. Hathor is commonly depicted as a cow goddess with head horns in which is set a sun disk with Uraeus. Twin feathers are also sometimes shown in later periods as well as a menat necklace. Hathor may be the cow goddess who is depicted from an early date on the Narmer Palette and on a stone urn dating from the 1st dynasty that suggests a role as sky-goddess and a relationship to Horus who, as a sun god, is "housed" in her.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Khepri
God of Sun

Sun-god creator in the form of a scarab beetle. The word kheper (or hprr) means scarab, and as the animal was associated with life and rebirth. Literally the word means "he who is coming into being". Like Atum, Khephir was a self-created god. The scarab lays its eggs in a ball of dung and rolls it to hide in a safe place. From this unlikely substance the Egyptians observed new life emerging, seemingly from the Earth. Hence he was a god of creation.Early in Egyptian history the beetle also came to represent the soul rising from death - resurrected, transcendent, fully formed and ready to make its journey and face its judgment in order to live in the Afterlife. By the New Kingdom (1539-1070 BC), the funerary texts from the papyri portray a scaraboid form as the most powerful symbol of life's victory over death. Similarly, they believed that Khephri, in the form of a gigantic scarab, rolled the sun like a huge ball through the sky, then rolled it through the underworld to the eastern horizon. Each morning Khephri would renew the sun so that it could give life to all the world. As a deity closely associated with resurrection, Khephir was believed to be swallowed by his mother, Nut each evening and passed through her body to be reborn each morning. Therefore he is also closely associated with Ra and Atum. Later funerary texts combine Khephra (scarab) with Atum (ram) into a ram-headed beetle, a portrayal of the supreme god overseeing the cycle of life and death (and Afterlife).

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Khnum
The Divine Potter

Khnum (pron.: /k??nu?m/; also spelled Khnemu) was one of the earliest Egyptian deities, originally the god of the source of the Nile River. Since the annual flooding of the Nile brought with it silt and clay, and its water brought life to its surroundings, he was thought to be the creator of the bodies of human children, which he made at a potter's wheel, from clay, and placed in their mothers' wombs. He later was described as having moulded the other deities, and he had the titles Divine Potter and Lord of created things from himself.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Ma'at
Goddess of Justice

Maat or ma'at (thought to have been pronounced *[mu?.?at]), also spelled mat or mayet, was the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also personified as a goddess regulating the stars, seasons, and the actions of both mortals and the deities, who set the order of the universe from chaos at the moment of creation. Her (ideological) counterpart was Isfet.nThe earliest surviving records indicating Maat is the norm for nature and society, in this world and the next, were recorded during the Old Kingdom, the earliest substantial surviving examples being found in the pyramid texts of Unas (ca. 2375 BCE and 2345 BCE). Later, as a goddess in other traditions of the Egyptian pantheon, where most goddesses were paired with a male aspect, her masculine counterpart was Thoth and their attributes are the same. After the rise of Ra they were depicted together in the Solar Barque. After her role in creation and continuously preventing the universe from returning to chaos, her primary role in Egyptian mythology dealt with the weighing of souls that took place in the underworld, Duat. Her feather was the measure that determined whether the souls (considered to reside in the heart) of the departed would reach the paradise of afterlife successfully.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Nephtys
Lady of the House

Nephthys (pron.: /?n?pθ?s/ or /?n?fθ?s/) or Nebthet (/?n?b?θ?t/) is a member of the Great Ennead of Heliopolis in Egyptian mythology, a daughter of Nut and Geb. Nephthys was typically paired with her sister Isis in funerary rites because of their role as protectors of the mummy and the god Osiris and as the sister-wife of Set. Nephthys is the Greek form of an epithet (transliterated as Nebet-het, and Nebt-het, from Egyptian hieroglyphs).The origin of the goddess Nephthys is unclear but the literal translation of her name is usually given as "Lady of the House," which has caused some to mistakenly identify her with the notion of a "housewife," or as the primary lady who ruled a domestic household. This is a pervasive error repeated in many commentaries concerning this deity. Her name means quite specifically, "Lady of the [Temple] Enclosure" which associates her with the role of priestess.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Nun
Primordial Deity of Oceanic Abyss

Nu (pron.: /nu?/; "watery one") or Nun (pron.: /n?n/ or /nu?n/; "inert one") is the deification of the primordial watery abyss in Egyptian mythology. In the Ogdoad cosmogony, the word nu means "abyss". The Ancient Egyptians envisaged the oceanic abyss of the Nun as surrounding a bubble in which the sphere of life is encapsulated, representing the deepest mystery of their cosmogony. In Ancient Egyptian creation accounts the original mound of land comes forth from the waters of the Nun. The Nun is the source of all that appears in a differentiated world, encompassing all aspects of divine and earthly existence. In the Ennead cosmogony Nun is perceived as transcendent at the point of creation alongside Atum the creator god. Nu was shown usually as male but also had aspects that could be represented as female or male. Nunet (pron.: /?nu??n?t/; also spelt Naunet) is the female aspect, which is the name Nu with a female gender ending. The male aspect, Nun, is written with a male gender ending. As with the primordial concepts of the Ogdoad, Nu's male aspect was depicted as a frog, or a frog-headed man. In Ancient Egyptian art, Nun also appears as a bearded man, with blue-green skin, representing water. Naunet is represented as a snake or snake-headed woman.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Babi
God of Violence

In Egyptian mythology, Babi, also Baba, was the deification of the baboon, one of the animals present in Egypt. His name is usually translated as Bull of the baboons, and roughly means Alpha male of all baboons, i.e. chief of the baboons. Since Baboons exhibit many human characteristics, it was believed that they were deceased ancestors. Since baboons were considered to be the dead, Babi was viewed as an underworld deity. Baboons are extremely aggressive, and omnivorous, and so Babi was viewed as being very bloodthirsty, and living on entrails. Consequently, he was viewed as devouring the souls of the unrighteous after they had been weighed against Ma'at (the concept of truth/order), and was thus said to stand by a lake of fire, representing destruction. Since this judging of righteousness was an important part of the underworld, Babi was said to be the first born son of Osiris, the god of the dead in the same regions in which people believed in Babi. Baboons also have noticeably high sex drives, in addition to their high level of genital marking, and so Babi was considered the god of virility of the dead. He was usually portrayed with an erection, and due to the association with the judging of souls, was sometimes depicted as using it as the mast of the ferry which conveyed the righteous to Aaru, a series of islands. Babi was also prayed to, in order to ensure that an individual would not suffer from impotence after death.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Isis
Goddess of Motherhood

Isis (Ancient Greek: ?σις, original Egyptian pronunciation more likely Aset) is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature and magic. She was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, and the downtrodden, and she listened to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats, and rulers. Isis is often depicted as the mother of Horus, the hawk-headed god of war and protection (although in some traditions Horus's mother was Hathor). Isis is also known as protector of the dead and goddess of children. The name Isis means "Throne". Her headdress is a throne. As the personification of the throne, she was an important representation of the pharaoh's power. The pharaoh was depicted as her child, who sat on the throne she provided. It was believed that the Nile River flooded every year because of the tears of sorrow which Isis wept for Osiris.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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(From the name and only you can tell she could have medicine skills.)

Nut
Goddess of Sky

Nut (pron.: /n?t/ or /nu?t/) or Neuth (pron.: /nu?θ/ or /nju?θ/; also spelled Nuit or Newet) was the goddess of the sky in the Ennead of Egyptian mythology. She was seen as a star-covered nude woman arching over the earth, or as a cow. Her name is translated to mean 'sky' and she is considered one of the oldest deities among the Egyptian pantheon, with her origin being found on the creation story of Heliopolis. She was originally the goddess of the nighttime sky, but eventually became referred to as simply the sky goddess. Her headdress was the hieroglyphic of part of her name, a pot, which may also symbolize the uterus. Mostly depicted in nude human form, Nut was also sometimes depicted in the form of a cow whose great body formed the sky and heavens, a sycamore tree, or as a giant sow, suckling many piglets (representing the stars).

POSTED 02/08/2012

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(Since she is the goddess of the sky I can only imagine her summoning tornadoes.)

Tefnut
Goddess of Moisture

Tefnut (pron.: /?t?f?n?t/; Egyptian: Tefenet) is a goddess of moisture, moist air, dew and rain in Ancient Egyptian religion. She is the sister and consort of the air god Shu and the mother of Geb and Nut. Teffnut is a leonine deity, and appears as human with a lioness head when depicted as part of the Great Ennead of Heliopolis. The other frequent depiction is as a lioness, but Tefnut can also be depicted as fully human. In her fully or semi anthropomorphic form, she is depicted wearing a wig, topped either with a uraeus serpent, or a uraeus and solar disk, and she is sometimes depicted as a lion headed serpent. Her face is sometimes used in a double headed form with that of her brother Shu on collar counterpoises.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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(She should have hurricane abilities.)

Sekhmet
She Who Mauls

In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet (pron.: /?s?k?m?t/) or Sachmis (pron.: /?s?km?s/; also spelled Sakhmet, Sekhet, or Sakhet, among other spellings) was originally the warrior goddess as well as goddess of healing for Upper Egypt. She is depicted as a lioness, the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath created the desert. She was seen as the protector of the pharaohs and led them in warfare. Sekhmet's name comes from the Ancient Egyptian word "sekhem" which means "powerful one." Sekhmet's name suits her function and means, the (one who is) powerful. She also was given titles such as the (One) Before Whom Evil Trembles, the Mistress of Dread, Lady of Slaughter and She Who Mauls.

POSTED 03/10/2012

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Ptah
God of Arts

In Egyptian mythology, Ptah (pron.: /p??t??/; Egyptian: pt?, probably vocalized as Pita? in ancient Egyptian) is the demiurge of Memphis, god of craftsmen and architects. In the triad of Memphis, he is the husband of Sekhmet and the father of Nefertum. He was also regarded as the father of the sage Imhotep. The Greeks knew him as the god Hephaestus, and in this form Manetho made him the first king of Egypt. Ptah is the patron of craftsmanship, metalworking, carpenters, shipbuilders, and sculpture. From the Middle Kingdom onwards, he was one of five major Egyptian gods with Ra, Isis, Osiris and Amun.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Shu
God of Wind

Shu (pron.: /?u?/; meaning "emptiness" and "he who rises up") was one of the primordial gods in Egyptian mythology, a personification of air, one of the Ennead of Heliopolis. As the air, Shu was considered to be cooling, and thus calming, influence, and pacifier. Due to the association with air, calm, and thus Ma'at (truth, justice and order), Shu was portrayed in art as wearing an ostrich feather. Shu was seen with between one and four feathers. In a much later myth, representing the terrible weather disaster at the end of the Old Kingdom, it was said that Tefnut and Shu once argued, and Tefnut left Egypt for Nubia (which was always more temperate). It was said that Shu quickly decided that he missed her, but she changed into a cat that destroyed any man or god that approached. Thoth, disguised, eventually succeeded in convincing her to return. He carries an ankh, the symbol of life.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Tawaret
Goddess of ChildBirth

In Egyptian mythology, Taweret (also spelled Taurt, Tuat, Taouris, Tuart, Ta-weret, Tawaret, and Taueret, and in Greek, Θουέρις "Thoueris" and Toeris) is the Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility. The name "Taweret" means, "she who is great" or simply, "great one". When paired with another deity, she became the wife of Apep, the devouring serpent god much feared by the Egyptians. However, the Egyptians essentially treated Taweret as a benevolent figure and this deity is attested as early as the Old Kingdom period "when she took three principal names: Opet or Ipy ('harim' or favoured place), Taweret ('the great goddess') and Reret ('the sow'). She has been linked with the fierce, devouring goddess Ammit" While there is a temple of Opet at Karnak, dating to the Late Period and Ptolemaic era, "it was the cult of Taweret that gained particular importance over time.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Thoth
God of Wisdom

Thoth (pron.: /?θo?θ/ or /?to?t/; from Greek Θώθ, from Egyptian ??wty, perhaps pronounced ?i?auti) was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. As in the main picture, Thoth is almost always shown holding a Was (a wand or rod symbolizing power) in one hand and an Ankh (the key of the Nile symbolizing life) in the other hand. His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Ma'at. Thoth played many vital and prominent roles in Egyptian mythology, such as maintaining the universe, and being one of the two deities (the other being Ma'at) who stood on either side of Ra's boat. In the later history of ancient Egypt, Thoth became heavily associated with the arbitration of godly disputes, the arts of magic, the system of writing, the development of science, and the judgment of the dead.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Apis
The Bull God

In Egyptian mythology, Apis or Hapis (alternatively spelled Hapi-ankh), is a bull-deity that was worshipped in the Memphis region. According to Manetho, his worship was instituted by Kaiechos of the Second Dynasty. Hape (Apis) is named on very early monuments, but little is known of the divine animal before the New Kingdom. Ceremonial burials of bulls indicate that ritual sacrifice was part of the worship of the early cow deities and a bull might represent a king who became a deity after death. He was entitled "the renewal of the life" of the Memphite god Ptah: but after death he became Osorapis, i.e. the Osiris Apis, just as dead humans were assimilated to Osiris, the king of the underworld. This Osorapis was identified with the Hellenistic Serapis, and may well be identical with him.

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Apophis
Serpent from the Nile

Apep (pron.: /???p?p/ or /????p?p/) or Apophis (pron.: /??p?f?s/; Ancient Greek: Άποφις; also spelled Apepi or Aapep) was an evil god in ancient Egyptian religion, the deification of darkness and chaos (??zft in Egyptian), and thus opponent of light and Ma'at (order/truth), whose existence was believed from the 8th Dynasty (mentioned at Moalla) onwards. His name is reconstructed by Egyptologists as *?A?papi, as it was written ??pp(y) and survived in later Coptic as Aphoph. As the personification of all that was evil, Apep was seen as a giant snake/serpent, or occasionally as a dragon in later years, leading to such titles as Serpent from the Nile and Evil Lizard. Some elaborations even said that he stretched 16 yards in length and had a head made of flint. It is to be noted that already on a Naqada I (ca. 4000 BC) C-ware bowl (now in Cairo) a snake was painted on the inside rim combined with other desert and aquatic animals as a possible enemy of a deity, possibly a solar deity, who is invisibly hunting in a big rowing vessel.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Heqet
Goddess of Fertility

To the Egyptians, the frog was a symbol of life and fertility, since millions of them were born after the annual inundation of the Nile, which brought fertility to the otherwise barren lands. Consequently, in Egyptian mythology, there began to be a frog-goddess, who represented fertility, referred to by Egyptologists as Heqet (also Heqat, Hekit, Heket etc., more rarely Hegit, Heget etc.), written with the determinative frog. Her name was probably pronounced more like *?aqa?tat in Middle Egyptian, hence her later Greek counterpart ?κάτη (see Hecate). Heqet was usually depicted as a frog, or a woman with a frog's head, or more rarely as a frog on the end of a phallus to explicitly indicate her association with fertility. She was often referred to as the wife of Khnum.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Khonshu
God of Moon

Khonsu (alternately Chonsu, Khensu, Khons, Chons or Khonshu) is an Ancient Egyptian god whose main role was associated with the moon. His name means "traveller" and this may relate to the nightly travel of the moon across the sky. Along with Thoth he marked the passage of time. Khonsu was instrumental in the creation of new life in all living creatures. At Thebes he formed part of a family triad with Mut as his mother and Amun his father. At Kom Ombo he was worshipped as son of Sobek and Hathor. His name reflects the fact that the Moon (referred to as Iah in Egyptian) travels across the night sky, for it means traveller, and also had the titles Embracer, Pathfinder, and Defender, as he was thought to watch overnight travelers. As the god of light in the night, Khonsu was invoked to protect against wild animals, increase male virility, and to aid with healing. It was said that when Khonsu caused the crescent moon to shine, women conceived, cattle became fertile, and all nostrils and every throat was filled with fresh air.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Nefertem
God of Healing

Nefertem (pron.: /?n?f?r?t?m/; possibly "beautiful one who closes" or "one who does not close"; also spelled Nefertum or Nefer-temu) was, in Egyptian mythology, originally a lotus flower at the creation of the world, who had arisen from the primal waters. Nefertem represented both the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower, having arisen from the primal waters within an Egyptian blue water-lily, Nymphaea caerulea. Some of the titles of Nefertem were "He Who is Beautiful" and "Water-Lily of the Sun", and a version of the Book of the Dead says, "Rise like Nefertem from the blue water lily, to the nostrils of Ra (the creator and sungod), and come forth upon the horizon each day." Nefertum is usually depicted as a beautiful young man having blue water-lily flowers around his head. As the son of Bast, he also sometimes has the head of a lion or is a lion or cat reclining. The ancient Egyptians often carried small statuettes of him as good-luck charms.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Nekhbet
Protectress of Pharaohs

Nekhbet (pron.: /?n?k?b?t/; also spelt Nekhebit) was an early predynastic local goddess in Egyptian mythology who was the patron of the city of Nekheb, her name meaning of Nekheb. Ultimately, she became the patron of Upper Egypt and one of the two patron deities for all of Ancient Egypt when it was unified. She was seen as a goddess who had chosen to adopt the city, and consequently depicted as the Egyptian white vulture, a creature that the Egyptians thought only existed as females (not knowing that, lacking sexual dimorphism, the males are identical). They were presumed to be reproducing via parthenogenesis. Egypt’s oldest oracle was the shrine of Nekhbet at Nekheb, the original necropolis or city of the dead.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Serket
The Scorpion Goddess

Serket (pron.: /?s?r?k?t/), also known as Selket, Serqet or Selcis (pron.: /?s?ls?s/), is the goddess of healing poisonous stings and bites in Egyptian mythology, originally the deification of the scorpion.Scorpion stings lead to paralysis and Serket's name describes this, as it means (she who) tightens the throat, however, Serket's name also can be read as meaning (she who) causes the throat to breathe, and so, as well as being seen as stinging the unrighteous, Serket was seen as one who could cure scorpion stings and the effects of other poisons such as snake bites. In Ancient Egyptian art, Serket was shown as a scorpion (a symbol found on the earliest artifacts of the culture, such as the protodynastic period), or as a woman with a scorpion on her head. Although Serket does not appear to have had any temples, she had a sizable number of priests in many communities.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Sopdet
Goddess of Star Sirius

In Egyptian mythology, Sopdet was the deification of Sothis, a star considered by almost all Egyptologists to be Sirius. The name Sopdet means (she who is) sharp in Egyptian, a reference to the brightness of Sirius, which is the brightest star in the night sky. In art she is depicted as a woman with a five-pointed star upon her head. Just after Sirius appears in the July sky, the Nile River begins its annual flood, and so the ancient Egyptians connected the two. Consequently Sopdet was identified as a goddess of the fertility of the soil, which was brought to it by the Nile's flooding. This significance led the Egyptians to base their calendar on the heliacal rising of Sirius.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Wadjet
The Cobra Goddess

Wadjet (pron.: /?w??d?d??t/ or /?w?d?d??t/; Egyptian w3?yt, "green one"), known to the Greek world as Uto (pron.: /?ju?to?/) or Buto (pron.: /?bju?to?/) among other names, was originally the ancient local goddess of the city of Dep (Buto), which became part of the city that the Egyptians named Per-Wadjet. The image of Wadjet with the sun disk is called the uraeus, and it was the emblem on the crown of the rulers of Lower Egypt. She was also the protector of kings and of women in childbirth. As the patron goddess, she was associated with the land and depicted as a snake-headed woman or a snake—usually an Egyptian cobra, a venomous snake common to the region; sometimes she was depicted as a woman with two snake heads and, at other times, a snake with a woman's head.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Wepwawet
The Wolf God

In late Egyptian mythology, Wepwawet (hieroglyphic wp-w3w.t; also rendered Upuaut, Wep-wawet, Wepawet, and Ophois) was originally a war deity, whose cult centre was Asyut in Upper Egypt (Lycopolis in the Greco-Roman period). His name means, opener of the ways and he is often depicted as a wolf standing at the prow of a solar-boat. Some interpret that Wepwawet was seen as a scout, going out to clear routes for the army to proceed forward. One inscription from the Sinai states that Wepwawet "opens the way" to king Sekhemkhet's victory.Wepwawet originally was seen as a wolf deity, thus the Greek name of Lycopolis, meaning city of wolves, and it is likely the case that Wepwawet was originally just a symbol of the pharaoh, seeking to associate with wolf-like attributes, that later became deified as a mascot to accompany the pharaoh. Likewise, Wepwawet was said to accompany the pharaoh on hunts, in which capacity he was titled (one with) sharp arrow more powerful than the gods.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Imhotep
God of Medicine

Imhotep (sometimes spelled Immutef, Im-hotep, or Ii-em-Hotep; called Imuthes (?μούθης) by the Greeks), fl. 27th century BC (circa 2650–2600 BC) (Egyptian ??-m-?tp *ja-im-?atap meaning "the one who comes in peace, is with peace"), was an Egyptian polymath, who served under the Third Dynasty king Djoser as chancellor to the pharaoh and high priest of the sun god Ra (or Re) at Heliopolis. He is considered to be the first architect and engineer and physician in early history though two other good physicians, Hesy-Ra and Merit-Ptah lived around the same time.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Ammit
The Soul Eater

Ammit (pron.: /??m?t/; "devourer" or "soul-eater"; also spelled Ammut or Ahemait) was a female demon in ancient Egyptian religion with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known to ancient Egyptians. A funerary deity, her titles included "Devourer of the Dead", "Eater of Hearts", and "Great of Death". Ammit lived near the scales of justice in Duat, the Egyptian underworld. In the Hall of Two Truths, Anubis weighed the heart of a person against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth, which was depicted as an ostrich feather (the feather was often pictured in Ma'at's headdress). If the heart was judged to be not pure, Ammit would devour it, and the person undergoing judgement was not allowed to continue their voyage towards Osiris and immortality. Once Ammit swallowed the heart, the soul was believed to become restless forever; this was called "to die a second time". Ammit was also sometimes said to stand by a lake of fire. In some traditions, the unworthy hearts were cast into the fiery lake to be destroyed. Some scholars believe Ammit and the lake represent the same concept of destruction.

POSTED 24/12/2012

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Bes
God of Families

Bes (Bisu, Aha) was an ancient Egyptian dwarf god. He was a complex being who was both a deity and a demonic fighter. He was a god of war, yet he was also a patron of childbirth and the home, and was associated with sexuality, humour, music and dancing. Although he began as a protector of the pharaoh, he became very popular with every day Egyptian people because he protected women and children above all others. He had no temples and there were no priests ordained in his name. However, he was one of the most popular gods of ancient Egypt and was often depicted on household items such as furniture, mirrors and cosmetics containers and applicators as well as magical wands and knives. Over time he came to be seen as the champion of everything good and the enemy of everything evil. It seems that he was originally known as "Aha" ("fighter") because he could strangle bears, lions and snakes with his bare hands. He is described as a demon, but he was not considered to be evil. On the contrary, he was a supporter of Ra who protected him from his enemies. As a result, he was a god of war who protected the pharaoh and the people of Egypt from evil forces. He was often depicted on knives in the hope that this would extend his protection to the bearer of the blade. His image also appears on numerous "magic wands" and on an incredible number of amulets.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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NORSE PANTHEON

Thor
God of Thunder and Weather

In Norse mythology, Thor is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, and also hallowing, healing, and fertility.Guardian of Midgard Thor is frequently referred to in place names, the day of the week Thursday ("Thor's day") bears his name, and names stemming from the pagan period containing his own continue to be used today.

POSTED 06/08/2012
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Vidar
God of Silence and Vengeance

Vidar is the son of Odin and the giantess Gridr (Grid). He is the god of silence and revenge and the second strongest of the gods. Vidar is tall, strong, and handsome, has a broad-bladed sword, and besides his armor wears a great leather shoe. Vidar's "thick shoe" consists of all the leather waste pieces that Northern cobblers have cut from their own shoes at the toe and heel, collected by the God throughout all time. As it was very important that the shoe should be large and strong enough to resist the Fenris wolf’s sharp teeth at the last day, it became a matter of religious observance among Northern shoe-makers to give away as many odds and ends of leather as possible.

POSTED 06/08/2012

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Fenrir
The Giant Wolf

Fenrir is the son of Loki and the giantess Angrboda. He is a giant wolf, also called Fenris. Snorri Sturluson had also given Fenrir another name, Vanargand. No chains can hold him for he is forever growing. Odin bound him up with a magical ribbon of Glepnir, which was created by the dwarves, but at the end of the world the wolf will rip off his bounds. Fenrir will kill Odin at the end of the world. After realizing he was tricked by the gods, Fenrir bit Tyr's hand, therefore leading Tyr to be known as the one-handed god. When Ragnarok came, Fenrir joined the legion of monsters, demons and giants who fought againts the gods. Fenrir battled Odin and devoured the latter. Odin's son, Vidar ripped the wolf's jaws apart with his bare hands to avenge Odin.

POSTED 06/08/2012
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Tyr
God of Law

Tyr is the God of Law, the althing, Justice, The Sky, War, Single Combat and heroic glory in Norse mythology, portrayed as a one-handed man. He was once considered the father of the gods and head of the pantheon. Tyr in origin was a generic noun meaning "god", e.g. Hangatyr, literally, the "god of the hanged", as one of Odin's names, which was probably inherited from Tyr in his role as god of justice.

POSTED 06/08/2012

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Loki
God of Mischief

Loki is the father of Hel, the wolf Fenrir, and the world serpent Jormungandr. Loki's relation with the gods varies by source. Loki sometimes assists the gods and sometimes causes problems for them. Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon, mare, seal, a fly, and possibly an elderly woman. Loki's positive relations with the gods end with his role in engineering the death of the god Baldr. Loki is eventually bound by the gods with the entrails of one of his sons. Loki is called by some "originator of deceits", and "the disgrace of all gods and men".

POSTED 06/08/2012
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Vili
God of Creation (Middle Brother of Odin)

In Norse mythology, Vili and Ve are the brothers of O?inn (often Anglicized Odin), sons of Bestla, daughter of Bol?orn, and Borr, son of Buri. Old Norse Vili means "will". Old Norse Ve refers to a type of shrine or sacred enclosure.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Ve
God of Creation (Youngest Brother of Odin)

In Norse mythology, Vili and Ve are the brothers of O?inn (often Anglicized Odin), sons of Bestla, daughter of Bol?orn, and Borr, son of Buri. Old Norse Vili means "will". Old Norse Ve refers to a type of shrine or sacred enclosure.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Magni
The Strong

In Norse mythology, Magni is the son of Thor. His name mean "Strong," respectively. Rudolf Simek states that, along with Thor's daughter ?ru?r ("Strength"), they embody their father's features.Mo?i and Magni's descent from Thor is attested by the kennings "Mo?i's father" and "Magni's father". According to Skaldskaparmal (17) Magni is the son of Thor and the Jotunn Jarnsaxa. There is no mention of Mo?i's mother.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Modi
The Angry

In Norse mythology, Modi is the son of Thor. His name mean "Angry," respectively. Rudolf Simek states that, along with Thor's daughter ?ru?r ("Strength"), they embody their father's features.Mo?i and Magni's descent from Thor is attested by the kennings "Mo?i's father" and "Magni's father". According to Skaldskaparmal (17) Magni is the son of Thor and the Jotunn Jarnsaxa. There is no mention of Mo?i's mother.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Thrud
Goddess of Strength

?ru?r (Old Norse "strength"), sometimes anglicized as Thrud or Thrud, is a daughter of the major god Thor in Norse mythology. ?ru?r is also the name of one of the valkyries who serve ale to the einherjar in Valhalla (Grimnismal, stanza 36). The two may or may not be the same figure.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Sigurd
The Legendary Hero

Sigurd (Old Norse: Sigur?r) is a legendary hero of Norse mythology, as well as the central character in the Volsunga saga. The earliest extant representations for his legend come in pictorial form from seven runestones in Sweden and most notably the Ramsund carving (c. 1000) and the Gok Runestone (11th century). As Siegfried, he is one of the heroes in the German Nibelungenlied, and Richard Wagner's operas Siegfried and Gotterdammerung. As Sivard Snarensven(d) he was the hero of several medieval Scandinavian ballads. The name Sigur?r is not the same name as the German Siegfried. The Old Norse form would have been Sigru?r, a form which appears in the Ramsund carving that depicts the legend. Sivard is another variant name of Sigur?r; these name forms all share the first element Sig-, which means victory.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Lady Sif
Goddess of Fertility

In Norse mythology, Sif is a goddess associated with earth. Sif is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds. In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, Sif is the wife of the god Thor and is known for her golden hair. In the Prose Edda, Sif is named as the mother of the goddess ?ru?r by Thor and of Ullr with a father whose name is not recorded. The Prose Edda also recounts that Sif once had her hair shorn by Loki, and that Thor forced Loki to have a golden headpiece made for Sif, resulting in not only Sif's golden tresses but also five other objects for other gods. Scholars have proposed that Sif's hair may represent fields of golden wheat, that she may be associated with fertility, family, wedlock and/or that she is connected to rowan, and that there may be an allusion to her role or possibly her name in the Old English poem Beowulf.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Baldr
God of Peace

Baldr was the second son of Odin. He was the god of innocence, beauty, joy, purity and peace.Compiled in Iceland in the 13th century, but based on much older Old Norse poetry, the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda contain numerous references to the death of Baldr as both a great tragedy to the ?sir and a harbinger of Ragnarok.

POSTED 31/08/2012

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Mimir
The Wise One

Mimir (Old Norse "The rememberer, the wise one") or Mim is a figure in Norse mythology renowned for his knowledge and wisdom who is beheaded during the ?sir-Vanir War. Afterward, the god Odin carries around Mimir's head and it recites secret knowledge and counsel to him.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Hermod
The Brave

Hermo?r the Brave (Old Norse "war-spirit", anglicized as Hermod) is a figure in Norse mythology, the son of god Odin. Hermo?r appears distinctly in section 49 of the Prose Edda book Gyl***inning. There, it is described that the gods were speechless and devastated at the death of Baldr, unable to react due to their grief. After the gods gathered their wits from the immense shock and grief of Baldr's death, Frigg asked the ?sir who amongst them wished "to gain all of her love and favor" by riding the road to Hel. Whoever agreed was to offer Hel a ransom in exchange for Baldr's return to Asgard. Hermo?r agrees to this and set off with Sleipnir to Hel.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Honir
God of Indecition and Avoidance

The Aesir sent him as a knowledgeable and valuable hostage during their truce with the Vanir, but it soon became clear that he was cribbing his speeches from Mimir. When Mimir wasn't around, Honir became a gibbering imbecile. The Vanir took their revenge by cutting Mimir's head off and sending Honir back with it.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Frigg
Queen of the Heavens

As the wife of Odin, Frigg is one of the foremost goddesses of Norse mythology. She is the patron of marriage and motherhood, and the goddess of love and fertility. In that aspect she shows many similarities with Freya, of whom she possibly is a different form.She has a reputation of knowing every person's destiny, but never unveils it.

POSTED 31/08/2012

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Heimdallr
Keeper of the Gods

In Norse mythology, Heimdallr is a god who possesses the resounding horn Gjallarhorn, owns the golden-maned horse Gulltoppr, has gold teeth, and is the son of Nine Mothers. Heimdallr is attested as possessing foreknowledge, keen eyesight and hearing, is described as "the whitest of the gods", and keeps watch for the onset of Ragnarok while drinking fine mead in his dwelling Himinbjorg, located where the burning rainbow bridge Bifrost meets heaven.

POSTED 06/08/2012

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Forseti
God of Justice

Forseti (Old Norse "the presiding one," actually "president" in Modern Icelandic and Faroese) is an ?sir god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology. He is generally identified with Fosite, a god of the Frisians.

POSTED 08/10/2012

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Fafnir
The Embracer

Fafnir was a dwarf gifted with a powerful arm and fearless soul. He guarded his father's house of glittering gold and flashing gems. He was the strongest and most aggressive of the three brothers. Fafnir slew his father, Hreithmar, to obtain the vast amount of gold which Hreithmar had demanded of Odin as a compensation for the loss of one of his sons. Odin gave the gold but put a curse on it. Full of greed, Fafnir changed into a dragon to guard his treasure and was later slain by the young hero Sigurd.

POSTED 31/08/2012

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Nidhoggr
Tearer of Corpses

In Norse mythology, Ni?hoggr (Malice Striker, often anglicized Nidhogg) is a dragon who gnaws at a root of the World Tree, Yggdrasill. In the mythology, the Nidhogg is said to be controlled by only one person, the Norse goddess named Hel. It is sometimes believed that the roots are trapping the beast from the world. This root is placed over Niflheimr and Ni?hoggr gnaws it from beneath.

POSTED 31/08/2012

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Jormungand
Midgard Serpent

Jormungandr also known as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent, is a sea serpent, the middle child of the giantess Angrbo?a and the god Loki. The serpent grew so large that he was able to surround the earth and grasp his own tail. As a result, he received the name of the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent. When he lets go, the world will end. Jormungandr's arch-enemy is the god Thor.

POSTED 06/08/2012

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Freyja
Goddess of Love and Beauty

Freyja (Old Norse the "Lady") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, gold, war, and death. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brisingamen, rides a chariot driven by two cats, owns the boar Hildisvini, possesses a cloak of falcon feathers. Freyja rules over her heavenly afterlife field Folkvangr and there receives half of those that die in battle, whereas the other half go to the god Odin's hall, Valhalla. Freyja assists other deities by allowing them to use her feathered cloak, is invoked in matters of fertility and love, and is frequently sought after by powerful jotnar who wish to make her their wife.

POSTED 06/08/2012
ADDED IN GAME 18/10/2012

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Freyr
Lord of Weather

Freyr (sometimes anglicized Frey, from *frawjaz "lord") is one of the most important gods of Norse paganism. Freyr was associated with sacral kingship, virility and prosperity, with sunshine and fair weather, and was pictured as a phallic fertility god, Freyr "bestows peace and pleasure on mortals". Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden and seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house. In the Icelandic books the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, Freyr is presented as one of the Vanir, the son of the sea god Njor?r, brother of the goddess Freyja. The gods gave him Alfheimr, the realm of the Elves, as a teething present. He rides the shining dwarf-made boar Gullinbursti and possesses the ship Ski?bla?nir which always has a favorable breeze and can be folded together and carried in a pouch when it is not being used. He has the servants Skirnir, Byggvir, and Beyla.

POSTED 21/12/2012

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Hoder
The Blind God

Ho?r (often anglicized as Hod, Hoder, or Hodur) is the brother of Baldr in Norse mythology. Tricked and guided by Loki, he shot the mistletoe arrow which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr. According to the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, the goddess Frigg made everything in existence swear never to harm Baldr, except for the mistletoe which she found too young to demand an oath from. The gods amused themselves by trying weapons on Baldr and seeing them fail to do any harm. Loki, upon finding out about Baldr's one weakness, made a missile from mistletoe, and helped Ho?r shoot it at Baldr. After this, Odin and the giantess Rindr gave birth to Vali, who grew to adulthood within a day and slew Ho?r. The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus recorded an alternative version of this myth in his Gesta Danorum. In this version, the mortal hero Hotherus and the demi-god Balderus compete for the hand of Nanna. Ultimately, Hotherus slays Balderus.

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Vali
Son of Odin

In Norse mythology, Vali is a son of the god Odin and the giantess Rindr. He was birthed for the sole purpose of killing Ho?r as revenge for Ho?r's accidental murder of his twin brother, Baldr. He grew to full adulthood within one day of his birth, and slew Ho?r. Vali is fated to survive Ragnarok.

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Eir
Goddess of Medicine

In Norse mythology, Eir (Old Norse "help, mercy") is a goddess and/or valkyrie associated with medical skill. Eir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in skaldic poetry, including a runic inscription from Bergen, Norway from around 1300. Scholars have theorized about whether or not these three sources refer to the same figure, and debate whether or not Eir may have been originally a healing goddess and/or a valkyrie.

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Ratatoskr
The Traveller

In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr (Old Norse, generally considered to mean "drill-tooth" or "bore-tooth") is a squirrel who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the unnamed eagle, perched atop Yggdrasil, and the wyrm Ni?hoggr, who dwells beneath one of the three roots of the tree. Ratatoskr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. Scholars have proposed theories about the implications of the squirrel.

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Hraesvelgr
The Corpse Swallower

In Norse mythology, Hr?svelgr ("Corpse Swallower") is a giant who takes eagle form. According to stanza 37 of the poem Vaf?ru?nismal from the Poetic Edda, he sits at the end of the world (or the northern edge of the heavens) and causes the wind to blow when he beats his wings in flight. This is repeated by Snorri in the Gyl***inning section of his Prose Edda. Hr?svelgr's name is sometimes anglicised as Hraesvelgr, Hresvelgr, Hraesveglur, or Hraesvelg. The common Danish form is R?svelg and the common Swedish form is Rasvelg.

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Gefjon
Goddess of Plough

In Norse mythology, Gefjon or Gefjun (with the alternate spelling Gefion) is a goddess associated with ploughing, the Danish island of Zealand, the legendary Swedish king Gylfi, the legendary Danish king Skjoldr, foreknowledge, and virginity. Gefjon is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; in the works of skalds; and appears as a gloss for various Greco-Roman goddesses in some Old Norse translations of Latin works.

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Idun
Goddess of Youth and Apples

In Norse mythology, I?unn is a goddess associated with apples and youth. I?unn is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, she is described as the wife of the skaldic god Bragi, and in the Prose Edda, also as a keeper of apples and granter of eternal youthfulness.

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Bragi
God of Poetry

Bragi is the skaldic god of poetry in Norse mythology. Bragi is generally associated with bragr, the Norse word for poetry. The name of the god may have been derived from bragr, or the term bragr may have been formed to describe 'what Bragi does'. Bragi is shown with a harp.

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Skadi
Goddess of Winter Hunting

Ska?i is a jotunn and goddess associated with bowhunting, skiing, winter, and mountains. Ska?i is alternately referred to as Ondurgu? (Old Norse "ski god") and Ondurdis (Old Norse "ski lady").

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Uller
God of Winter and Hunting

Ullr appears to have been a major god, or an epithet of an important god, in prehistoric times. The term wol?u- "glory", possibly in reference to the god, is attested on the 3rd century Thorsberg chape (as owl?u-), but medieval Icelandic sources have only sparse material on Old Norse Ullr. Son of Sif and stepson to Thor, Ullr is the god of archery, winter, and hunting.

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Vor
Goddess of Wisdom

In Norse mythology, Vor (Old Norse, possibly "the careful one," or "aware, careful") is a goddess associated with wisdom. Vor is attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and twice in kennings employed in skaldic poetry. Scholars have proposed theories about the implications of the goddess.

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Var
Goddess of Oath

In Norse mythology, Var or Vor (Old Norse, meaning either "pledge" or "beloved") is a goddess associated with oaths and agreements. Var is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and kennings found in skaldic poetry and a runic inscription. Scholars have proposed theories about the implications of the goddess.

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Syn
Goddess of Defence

In Norse mythology, Syn (Old Norse "refusal") is a goddess associated with defensive refusal. Syn is attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in kennings employed in skaldic poetry. Scholars have proposed theories about the implications of the goddess.

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Njordr
God of the Sea

In Norse mythology, Njor?r is a god among the Vanir. Njor?r is father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed Van sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Ska?i, lives in Noatun and is associated with sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility.

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Sol (Sunna)
Personification of Sun

Sol (Old Norse "Sun") or Sunna (Old High German, and existing as an Old Norse and Icelandic synonym: see Wiktionary sunna, "Sun") is the Sun personified in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old High German Merseburg Incantations, written in the 9th or 10th century CE, attests that Sunna is the sister of Sinthgunt. In Norse mythology, Sol is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.

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Mani
Personification of Moon

In Norse mythology, Mani (Old Norse/Icelandic "moon") is the moon personified. Mani, personified, is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. Both sources state that he is the brother of the personified sun, Sol, and the son of Mundilfari, while the Prose Edda adds that he is followed by the children Hjuki and Bil through the heavens. As a proper noun, Mani appears throughout Old Norse literature. Scholarly theories have been proposed about Mani's potential connection to the Northern European notion of the Man in the Moon, and a potentially otherwise unattested story regarding Mani through skaldic kenning

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Dellingr
Personification of Day

Dellingr (Old Norse possibly "the dayspring" or "shining one") is a god in Norse mythology. Dellingr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, Dellingr is described as the father of Dagr, the personified day. The Prose Edda adds that, depending on manuscript variation, he is either the third husband of Nott, the personified night, or the husband of Jor?, the personified earth. Dellingr is also attested in the legendary saga Hervarar . Scholars have proposed that Dellingr is the personified dawn, and his name may appear both in an English surname and place name.

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Nott
Personification of Night

In Norse mythology, Nott (Old Norse "night") is night personified, grandmother of Thor. In both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Nott is listed as the daughter of a figure by the name of Norvi (with variant spellings) and is associated with the horse Hrimfaxi, while the Prose Edda features information about Nott's ancestry, including her three marriages. Nott's third marriage was to the god Dellingr and this resulted in their son Dagr, the personified day (although some manuscript variations list Jor? as Dellingr's wife and Dagr's mother instead). As a proper noun, the word nott appears throughout Old Norse literature.

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Surtr
The Giant with the Bright Sword

In Norse mythology, Surtr or Surt (Old Norse "black" or "the swarthy one") is an elder jotunn. Surtr is foretold as being a major figure during the events of Ragnarok; carrying his bright sword, he will go to battle against the ?sir, This god/demon killed Freyr at Ragnarok and proceeded to cover the Earth in flames with his sword of fire.

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MAYAN PANTHEON

Ah Puch
God of the Dead

Ah Puch was the Mayan god of death and ruler of Mitnal, the most abysmal of the nine Mayan hells. He thrived on human sacrifice, and was especially revered in the city of Chichen Itza, where people were thrown into the Cenote, a sacred well, as sacrifices for Ah Puch to feast upon. With the advent of Christianity, worship of Ah Puch died out. This rendered Ah Puch so weak that he turned into a discorporeal spirit and was forced into dormancy. Ah Puch was given corporeal form once again many centuries later, when best-selling horror novelist Daniel Gleason included an ancient Mayan incantation in his book "Mind Games". Upon reading the incantation in the book, the reader was claimed by Ah Puch, who absorbed the life force of the reader. Ah Puch eventually came into conflict with the Phantom Stranger, when Gleason turned to him for help. Ah Puch possessed Gleason's body and brought the Phantom Stranger to Chichen Itza, where Ah Puch threw him into the Cenote in order to slowly devour his energies. Appealing to Gleason?s soul deep within the form of Ah Puch, the Phantom Stranger was able to exorcise Ah Puch. If Ah Puch was truly vanquished remains to be seen.Ah Puch derives his strength from worship, especially human sacrifice. As a death god, he has the power to re-animate and control corpses. At will, Ah Puch can have fanged, snakelike tentacles protrude from his spine. He was recently able to connect with the readers of the book "Mind Games" and feed off their life force through these tentacles. Ah Puch probably possesses superhuman strength and has the ability to walk on thin air. He is also endowed with claws.

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Kinich Ahau
God of the Sun

Kinich Ahau (K'inich Ajaw) is the 16th-century Yucatec name of the Maya sun god, designated as god G when referring to the codices. In the Classic period, god G is depicted as a middle-aged man with an aquiline nose, large square eyes, cross-eyed, and a filed incisor in the upper row of teeth. Usually, there is a k'in 'sun'-infix, sometimes in the very eyes. Among the southern Lacandons, Kinich Ahau continued to play a role in narrative well into the second half of the twentieth century.

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Ixchel
Goddess of the Moon

Ixchel (pronounced Ish-Chel) is a well known Goddess of the Maya people. She is considered a woman's God and represents birth and medicine. She has been associated with the moon, particularly the waning moon as in an aging woman. Representations of lunar forces seem to be quite common among god cultures around the world. Women needed their gods too as men did. Sometimes Ixchel is associated with the other rain gods. The Dresden Codex shows Ixchel with a jar of water that she is pouring out. Flowing water from a god can be interpreted as rain, as life, as birth (water breaking) and as a flood (disaster). Most interpret Ixchel's jar as holding water associated with birth and life.

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Ixtab
Goddess of Suicide

Ixtab (Mayan pronunciation) or Rope Woman was the Yucatec Mayan goddess of suicide according to Diego de Landa. In Yucatec society, suicide, especially suicide by hanging, was under circumstances considered an honorable way to die. Ixtab would accompany such suicides to paradise (thus playing the role of a psychopomp). Here, joined by people who died as soldiers or as sacrificial victims, by women who died in childbirth and by members of the priesthood, they enjoyed a delectable existence rewarded with delicious food and drink and resting under the shade of a pleasant tree, Yaxche, free from all want. The picture of a dead woman with a rope around the neck in the Dresden Codex is often taken to represent the goddess. Since it occurs in a section devoted to eclipses of sun and moon, it may have been used to symbolize a lunar eclipse and its dire consequences for women, especially pregnant ones: Lunar eclipses exposed their unborn children to the risks of deformation and death. No other pictures possibly representing Ixtab are known.

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Yumil Kaxob
God of Maize

Yumil Kaxob was the god of Maize, eternally youthful. However, he had very little intrinsic power. He needed protection from Chac, but when Yah Puch, the god of the Underworld, brought drought and famine, Yumil Kaxob suffered.

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Ahau Chamahez ( Pichana Gobeche )
God of Medicine

One of two great gods of medicine and healing (with Cit-Bolon-Tun) known as the Lord of the Magic Tooth.

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Hunab Ku
The Only God

Hunab Ku Is a perception of the all being .. Or "the one god" , a term obviously translated below on this page by an individual whos knowledge of religion is western/ Christian based... The "one god " concept, , to my understanding, was primarily birthed out of eastern culture enveloping a new age sense that consists of all things being , the reason , the purpose, the beauty , and the all inclusive existence of the miraculous and unfathomably unknown forces of a constantly expanding universe.. The unconscious energy that sprouted creation ... "one god" being every single entity and experience in existence that we are have, been , and will become...a truth universal that every one and thing knows and understands when seeing without the ego..hunab ku ... The freedom and reason for our existence .. The astronomical phenomenon of love and the flowing strands of us in time. Hunab Ku is a Yucatec Maya word meaning "The Only God" used in colonial, and more particularly in doctrinal texts, to refer to the Christian God. Since the word is found frequently in the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, regarded by some as indigenous writing not influenced by Christianity, some authors have proposed that the name was originally used for an indigenous Maya deity, which was later transferred to the Christian god but recent research has shown this to be unlikely. Rather the word was a translation into Maya of the Christian concept of the "One God", used to enculturate the previously Polytheist Maya to the new Colonial religion.

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Hunhau
King of Demons

Hanhau is the chief of the Demons from South American mythology. He is the ruler of Mitnal, the land of the dead.Some believe that he is a manifestation of the god Ah Puch. Hunhau resides over the worst layer in the underworld. He wears ornaments made from bone and a necklace made from eye-sockets. He has a skeletal body and has the head of an owl.

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Itzamna
Creator God

In Yucatec Maya mythology, Itzamna was the name of an upper god and creator deity thought to be residing in the sky. Little is known about him, but scattered references are present in early-colonial Spanish reports (relaciones) and dictionaries. Twentieth-century Lacandon lore includes tales about a creator god (Nohochakyum or Hachakyum) who may be a late successor to Itzamna. In the pre-Spanish period, Itzamna, represented by the aged god D, was frequently depicted in books and in ceramic scenes derived from such books. The Aztec deity corresponding to Itzamna is Tonacatecuhtli.

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Ik
God of Wind

On Mayan sculptures, the God of Rain or Storms is shown holding a T-Cross, the symbol for Ik, God of Wind. The wind brings the storm clouds and the rain and is symbolic of the breath of life itself. The T-Cross shape is seen in ancient architecture throughout Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Some ancient codices of the Maya depict the tree of life as a T shape. According to Kenneth Johnson in Jaguar Wisdom, “trees and the air are intimately linked. Without the symbiosis of trees and wind, there would be no life on earth, nothing to breathe. What better symbol for the breath of life then, than the T-cross with its dual meaning of ‘tree’ and ‘breath’?”

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Bolon Tzakab ( Kawil )
God of Lightning

Also known as God K. K is for Kings. God K is the Schellhas-Zimmermann-Taube designation of a codical Maya deity representing lightning. In earlier, especially Classic depictions, his main characteristics are a blade or torch running through his forehead, and a serpent leg . God K personifies the lightning axe of the rain deity, Chaac, which is also a stereotypical attribute of the king as represented on his steles. He's one of the Palenque-Triad , designated with the Roman numeral ii. BOLON-TZAKAB carries a torch or sometimes a smoking cigar. He protects the royal household and their lineage. Consequently he requires a lot of sacrifices. Throw another peasant on the fire.

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Hun Came and Vucub Came
Principal Death Gods

Hun Came and Vucub Came (One Death and Seven Death) are the principle death gods of the Mayan underworld, Xibalba. According to the Popol Vuh, one day, the twins, Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu, were playing ball with Hun Hunahpu’s sons, Hun Batz and Hun Chouen. The ball court is on earth, but also led to the underworld. Hun Came and Vucub Came, the death gods, became enraged with the noise the ball game was causing and summoned all the gods and demons of Xibalba together to come up with a plan to kill Hun Hunahpu and Vucub Hunahpu. They finally decide to send four messenger owls up to earth to invite them down to Xibalba to play a ball game with the death gods. The two agreed and began their journey into Xibalba, which involved passing obstacles such as fierce rapids, thorny spikes and a river of blood, all of which they overcame successfully.

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Ah Muzen Cab
God of Bees and Honey

Bee motifs have been seen in Mayan cultures, an example being the Ah-Muzen-Cab, the Bee God, found in Mayan ruins, likely designating honey-producing cities (who prized honey as food of the gods).

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Akna
Goddess of Birth

Akna ("mother") is the name of a goddess of motherhood and birthing in Maya mythology.

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Yum Kaax
God of Wild Vegetation

Yum Kaax (Mayan pronunciation: [jum ka??], 'lord of the forest') is a Yucatek name for the god of the wild vegetation and guardian of its animals. In the past, this character has wrongly been described as an agricultural deity, or even as the Maya maize god (god E of the codices), which has become a popular and still existing misconception. In ethnographic reality, Yum Kaax is a god of wild plants and of animals that are important to hunters. As such, he grants protection of the fields against the incursions of the wild nature he himself represents. For the same reason, his name is invoked by traditional farmers, who present him with the first fruits of their fields, carved out from the forest. This type of deity is also found among indigenous peoples of North America. Invoked by hunters, he is owner of all the game. He can appear to hunters in an instant, and possesses songs that will warrant a hunter success, and allow his arrows to come back to him.

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Ek Chuah
God of Merchants

Ek Chuah (black scorpion) is the god of war, merchants and trade, usually represented with the color black, the color of war. It is said that he has a double and contradictory nature: on the one hand, malevolent, as the god of war, and on the other hand, benefactor, as the god of traveling merchants. So depending on the needs of the people were the requests made to Ek Chuah. The most outstanding physical characteristics of Ek Chuah are the thick lower lip painted in black, the great cane-shaped spear used for combat and the bulge with goods that he carries on his back. As a warrior Ek Chuah sometimes defeats in war and other times he is defeated by other gods. Tradition describes that he always leans on a cane, which is a spear, to distract the enemy, and once he attacks, his spear ignites the primordial fire in the center of the cosmos, he shakes a spherical rattle and carries the axe with which Chaac (god of rain) produces the rays.

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Hun Batz and Hun Choen
Monkey Twin Gods

The Mayan Monkey god was referred to in mythology as twin gods. Their names were Hun-Batz and Hun-Choen. It is said that the twins were taken to a tree and when they started climbing the tree continued to grow and the twins could not escape the tree and eventually turned into monkeys.

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Buluc Chabtan
God of War

In Mayan art, Buluc Chabtan is usually portrayed with a thick black line around his eyes and down one cheek. It's also common for him to be in images where he's setting fire to buildings and stabbing people; sometimes, he is simultaneously stabbing people with a spit which he uses to roast them over a fire.

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Camazotz
God of Bats

In Maya mythology, Camazotz (/kama?sots/) (alternate spellings Cama-Zotz, Sotz, Zotz) was a bat god. Camazotz means "death bat" in the K'iche' language. In Mesoamerica the bat was associated with night, death, and sacrifice. Bee keepers prepared themselves for the coming activities by fasting. It may have also been associated with the beginning of the darkest months of the year in fall.

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Acan
God of Wine

Acan is the Mayan god of wine. His name means 'belch'. He is identified with the local brew, balche, made from fermented honey to which the bark of the balche tree has been added.

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Acat
God of Tattoos

The Maya placed great importance on the process of Tattooing, believing that tattoos in the image of a god would imbue a person with some of that god's power. Because of the importance and difficulty of this art form it was only natural that there was a god responsible for it. Acat was said to bless the ink, needles, and work spaces, and steady the hands of the artists for better results.

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Xaman Ek
God of North Star

The sub-nosed god of the North Star. He was ‘the guide of the merchants’, and the Maya compared his benevolence with that of the rain god Chac. Merchants used to offer incense to Xaman Ek at altars along roadsides.

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Ah Cuxtal
God of Childbirth

There are usually Goddesses for this kind of thing but the Maya always liked to be different. Ah Cuxtal protects the unborn child and ensures its safe passage into the world. Then he washes his hands.

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Ah Peku
God of Thunder

In Maya mythology, Ah Peku (pek-ku) was a god of thunder.

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Ah Tzul
Scorpion God

Maya Scorpion God Dog. Otherwise known as God Z. That's all we know so far. But his name means 'Dog' and he may have some connection to Ah Ciliz.

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Ek Zip
God of Hunting

Ek Zip was the god of deer hunting in mayan mythology. He is also an alphabet God knows as God L. There was a month to honor the god of hunting, Ek Zip. Hunters and fisherman blessed their tools and performed blood letting ceremonies.

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Akbul
God of Night

Akbul was the god of night and darkness in mayan mythology. Noone has seen him in a daytime and at night he hides well in the shadows so not to be seen.

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Alaghom Naom
Goddess of Mind

(Alaghom Naum, Ixtat Ix) The Maya mother goddess. She is especially associated with thought and intellect, and is known as "Mother of Mind".

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Ben Elaba
God of Sun and War

Ben Elaba and Baelachi are Mr and Mrs Gods. Ben does Sun, War and Sacrifices, while Bella does Underworld and Deadies. They both belong to the Mixtec Mix and Match Ritualistic Workshop.

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Bolon Tiku
One of the Nine Lords of The UnderWorld

The Bolontiku are the Nine Lords of Night in Mayan mythology. They can be seen as either the lords of the Underworld or the guardians of the Mayan people, depending on who you ask. They may also be called 'The Nine Lords of Time'.

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Buluk Kab
God of Floods

In Mayan Mythology Buluk Kab was the God of Floods also known as God R.

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Cabrakan
God of Mountains and Earthquakes

The son of Hell-God Vucub-Caquix, he's a mountain giant hell-bent on destruction. But the Hero twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque stopped his destructive ways by giving him poisoned fowls to eat. Then he was buried alive. That's known as fowl play. His giant brother Zipanca came to a similar end.

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Vucub Caquix
The Bird Demon

Vucub-Caquix (possibly meaning 'Seven-Macaw') is the name of a bird demon defeated by the Hero Twins of a K'iche'-Mayan myth preserved in an 18th-century document, entitled 'Popol Vuh'. The episode of the demon's defeat was already known in the Late Preclassic Period, before the year 200 AD. Vucub-Caquix is described as a powerful bird pretending to be the sun and moon of the twilight world in between the former creation and the present one. According to modern K'iche', his name refers to the seven stars of the Big Dipper asterism. The false sun-moon bird was shot out of his tree with a blowgun by Hun-Ahpu, one of the Maya Hero Twins, but still managed to sever the hero's arm. Finally, however, the demon was deprived of his teeth, his eyes, his riches, and his power. Together, the Twins were to become the true sun and moon of the present creation. The episode is only loosely connected to the main tale of the Twins, and is varied by other Mesoamerican hero myths. It is also akin to certain scenes in Mayan art dating back to the 8th century and before.

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Chac Uayeb Xoc
God of Fish

Mostly kind and benevolent, he fills fishing nets with goodies and will happily supply seafood for any occasion. Just one of warning: If you fall overboard, he won't hesitate to gobble you up. Even Gods have to eat.

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Etznab
God of Sacrifice

He's one of the Alphabet-Gods known as God Q. Q is for Quite Sharp. Etznab is at the cutting edge, being the God of the obsidian-bladed sacrificial knife.

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Coqui Xee
God of Infinity

In Mayan mythology Coqui Xee was a God of Infinity and Abstraction.

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Uayeb
Snail God of MisFortune

Also known as God N. N is for Not Lucky. One of the Pauahtun, he is the God of Five Unlucky Days. When they are or how often they occur is not clear. Once a year would be tolerable but every week would be a bit over the top. He may also be the first God to wear a shell suit, as a snail shell seems to be his principle abode. We know snail shells are also capable of containing much holiness. Uayeb is also often portrayed as a drunken sex-maniac.

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Votan
God of Warfare

And my goodness, he is old. He's so old that no-one quite remembers who he is. He was very very old with no teeth even when he was first worshipped, which was so long ago it may have been before time began. We don't know how black he is either. His face may be painted black, or he might just have been cleaning the chimney or living in a cave for too long. But perhaps it's the fumes from the potent black cigars he smokes. If you like the good old days and haven't yet given up smoking, Votan could be the God for you. He's also known as God L. L is for Live Percussion! Yes, Votan is the God of Drums! He invented the art of drum solos in his skin-tight and drumboogie days.

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Hun Hunahpu
Father of Hunahpu

According to the Popol Vuh, Hun-Hunahpu 'One-Hunahpu' (a calendrical name) is the father of the Maya hero twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. As their shared calendrical day name suggests, Hun-Hunahpu is first and foremost the father of Hunahpu. He is also stated to be the father of the twins' half-brothers, the patrons of the artisans and writers, Hun-Chowen and Hun-Batz (see Howler Monkey Gods). Hun-Hunahpu 'One-Hunahpu' is paired with his brother, Vucub-Hunahpu 'Seven-Hunahpu'. The brothers were tricked in the Dark House by the lords of the Underworld (Xibalba) and sacrificed. Hun-Hunahpu's head was suspended in a trophy tree and changed to a calabash. Its spittle (i.e., the juice of the calabash) impregnated a daughter of one of the lords of Xibalba, Xquic. She fled the underworld and conceived the Twins. After defeating the lords of the Underworld, the Twins recovered the remains of their father and father's brother, but could not resuscitate them.

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Ix Tub Tun
Goddess of Precious Stones

A Mayan goddess, patroness of workers in precious stones. She is said to spit out jewels and is envisaged as a serpent. Also called Ix Tub Tun or Aztec Itztapal Totec.

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Mdi
God of Water

MDI sounds like part of a retail chain, but he's actually a Rain and Lightning God who gives his name to the first day of the Mayan nine-day week.

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Muan
The Demon Messenger

This is the name of a screech owl — who seems to have been used as a Godly messenger bearing not-very-welcome tidings from the direction of the Underworld.

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Tohil
God of Fire

Tohil (also spelt Tojil) was a deity of the K'iche' Maya in the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. At the time of the Spanish Conquest, Tohil was the patron god of the K'iche'. Tohil's principal function was that of a fire deity and he was also both a sun god and the god of rain. Tohil was also associated with mountains and he was a god of war, sacrifice and sustenance. In the K'iche' epic Popul Vuh, after the first people were created, they gathered at the mythical Tollan, the Place of the Seven Caves, to receive their language and their gods. The K'iche', and others, there received Tohil. Tohil demanded blood sacrifice from the K'iche' and so they offered their own blood and also that of sacrificed captives taken in battle. In the Popul Vuh this consumption of blood by Tohil is likened to the suckling of an infant by its mother. Tohil may originally have been the same god as Q'uq'umatz, and shared the attributes of the feathered serpent with that deity, but they later diverged and each deity came to have a separate priesthood. Sculptures of a human face emerging between the jaws of a serpent were common from the end of the Classic Period through to the Late Postclassic and may represent Q'uq'umatz in the act of carrying Hunahpu, the youthful avatar of the sun god Tohil, across the sky. The god's association with human sacrifice meant that Tohil was one of the first deities that the Spanish clergy tried to eradicate after the conquest of Guatemala.

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Yaluk
Top God of Lightning

Top God of Lightning. He's in charge of bolts from the blue. This is such a big job that he has several underlings to assist him.

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Zipacna
God and Creator of the Mountains

In Maya mythology, Zipacna was a son of Vucub Caquix (Seven Macaw) and Chimalmat. He and his brother, Cabrakan (Earthquake), were often considered demons. Zipacna, like his relatives, was said to be very arrogant and violent. Zipacna was characterized as a large caiman and often boasted to be the creator of the mountains. The Popol Vuh tells the story that one day Zipacna was basking on the beach when he was disturbed by the Four Hundred Boys (possibly patron deities of alcohol), who were attempting to construct a hut. They had felled a large tree to use as the central supporting log, but were unable to lift it. Zipacna, being immensely strong, offered to carry the log for them, which he did. Although most translations of the Popol Vuh would seem to indicate this was done as a gesture of goodwill, it is generally agreed that Zipacna did so in a spirit of arrogance, mocking the boys for their inability to do so.

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Chaac
God of Agriculture

Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk ) is the name of the Maya rain deity. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds and produces thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among the Aztecs. Like other Maya gods, Chaac is both one and manifold. Four Chaacs are based in the cardinal directions and wear the directional colors. In 16th-century Yucatan, the directional Chaac of the east was called Chac Xib Chaac 'Red Man Chaac', only the colors being varied for the three other ones. Contemporary Yucatec Maya farmers distinguish many more aspects of the rain and the clouds and personify them as different, hierarchically-ordered rain deities. The Chorti Maya have preserved important folklore regarding the process of rain-making, which involved rain deities striking rain-carrying snakes with their axes.

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Bacabs
Four Gods of the Cardinal Points of the Compass

Bacab, in Mayan mythology, any of four gods, thought to be brothers, who, with upraised arms, supported the multilayered sky from their assigned positions at the four cardinal points of the compass. (The Bacabs may also have been four manifestations of a single deity.) The four brothers were probably the offspring of Itzamna, the supreme deity, and Ixchel, the goddess of weaving, medicine, and childbirth. Each Bacab presided over one year of the four-year cycle. The Maya expected the Muluc years to be the greatest years, because the god presiding over these years was the greatest of the Bacab gods. The four directions and their corresponding colours (east, red; north, white; west, black; south, yellow) played an important part in the Mayan religious and calendrical systems.

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ROMAN PANTHEON

Quirinus
God of War

In Roman mythology and religion, Quirinus is an early god of the Roman state. In Augustan Rome, Quirinus was also an epithet of Janus, as Janus Quirinus. His name is derived from the word quiris meaning "spear." Quirinus is probably an adjective meaning "wielder of the spear". Quirinus was originally most likely a Sabine god of war. The Sabines had a settlement near the eventual site of Rome, and erected an altar to Quirinus on the Collis Quirinalis, the Quirinal Hill, one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

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Silvanus
God of The Woods and Fields

Silvanus (Latin: "of the woods") was a Roman tutelary deity of woods and fields. As protector of forests (sylvestris deus), he especially presided over plantations and delighted in trees growing wild.He is also described as a god watching over the fields and husbandmen, protecting in particular the boundaries of fields. The similarly named Etruscan deity Selvans may be a borrowing of Silvanus, or not even related in origin.Silvanus is described as the divinity protecting the flocks of cattle, warding off wolves, and promoting their fertility. Like other gods of woods and flocks, Silvanus is described as fond of music; the syrinx was sacred to him, and he is mentioned along with the Pans and Nymphs.

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Terminus
Protector of Boundary Markers

In Roman religion, Terminus was the god who protected boundary markers; his name was the Latin word for such a marker. Sacrifices were performed to sanctify each boundary stone, and landowners celebrated a festival called the "Terminalia" in Terminus' honor each year on February 23. The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill was thought to have been built over a shrine to Terminus, and he was occasionally identified as an aspect of Jupiter under the name "Jupiter Terminalis". Ancient writers believed that the worship of Terminus had been introduced to Rome during the reign of the first king Romulus (traditionally 753–717 BC) or his successor Numa (717–673 BC). Modern scholars have variously seen it as the survival of an early animistic reverence for the power inherent in the boundary marker, or as the Roman development of proto-Indo-European belief in a god concerned with the division of property.

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Verminus
God of Disease

In Roman mythology, Verminus was the Roman god who protected cattle from disease. The god may have been inherited from the Indigetes, whom the Romans conquered in 218 BC.[citation needed] An altar dedicated by consul (or duovir) Aulus Postumius Albinus in 151 BC to Verminus was discovered in 1876, and was housed in the museum of the Antiquarium Comunale in Rome. A 2nd century inscription dedicated to the god has been considered to be a reaction to increased worm infections among humans. However, Spanish veterinary scientist M. Cordero del Campillo has concluded that it was due to an epidemic infectious disease affecting both humans and animals. An altar to Verminus was discovered on Viminal Hill in Rome.

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Janus
God of Beginnings and Transitions

In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus (Latin: Ianus, Ιανούς in Greek) is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past. The month of January was named in honor of Janus by the Romans. Because of his role Janus had an ubiquitous presence throughout the religious calendar in religious ceremonies and was ritually invoked at the beginning of each and every one regardless of the gods honored on any such occasion.In particular he was strictly associated to peace, war, travelling, trading and shipping.

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Bona Dea
The Good Goddess

Bona Dea ("The Good Goddess") is both an honorific title and a respectful pseudonym; the goddess' true or cult name is unknown. Her other, less common pseudonyms include Feminea Dea ("The Women's Goddess"), Laudandae...Deae ("The Goddess...to be Praised")., and Sancta ("The Holy One"). She is a goddess of "no definable type", with several origins and a range of different characteristics and functions. She was associated with chastity and fertility in women, healing, and the protection of the Roman state and people. According to Roman literary sources, she was brought from Magna Graecia at some time during the early or middle Republic, and was given her own state cult on the Aventine Hill.

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Fontus
God of Wells and Springs

In ancient Roman religion, Fontus or Fons (plural Fontes, "Font" or "Source") was a god of wells and springs. A religious festival called the Fontinalia was held on October 13 in his honor. Throughout the city, fountains and wellheads were adorned with garlands. Fons was the son of Juturna and Janus. Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome, was supposed to have been buried near the altar of Fons (ara Fontis) on the Janiculum. William Warde Fowler observed that between 259 and 241 BC, cults were founded for Juturna, Fons, and the Tempestates, all having to do with sources of water. As a god of pure water, Fons can be placed in opposition to Liber as a god of wine identified with Bacchus.

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Summanus
God of Nocturnal Thunder

In ancient Roman religion, Summanus (Latin: Summanus) was the god of nocturnal thunder, as counterposed to Jupiter, the god of diurnal (daylight) thunder. His precise nature was unclear even to Ovid. The temple of Summanus was dedicated during the Pyrrhic War c. 278 BCE on June 20. It stood at the west of the Circus Maximus, perhaps on the slope of the Aventine. It seems the temple had been dedicated because the statue of the god which stood on the roof of the temple of Iupiter Capitolinus had been struck by a lightningbolt. Every June 20, the day before the summer solstice, round cakes called summanalia, made of flour, milk and honey and shaped as wheels, were offered to him as a token of propitiation: the wheel might be a solar symbol. Summanus also received a sacrifice of two black oxen or wethers. Dark victims were typically offered to chthonic deities.

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Pomona
Goddess of Fruit

Pomona (Latin: Pomona) was a goddess of fruitful abundance in ancient Roman religion and myth. Her name comes from the Latin word pomum, "fruit," specifically orchard fruit. She was said to be a wood nymph. In the myth narrated by Ovid she scorned the love of the woodland gods Silvanus and Picus, but married Vertumnus after he tricked her, disguised as an old woman. She and Vertumnus shared a festival held on August 13. Her priest was called the flamen Pomonalis. The pruning knife was her attribute. There is a grove that is sacred to her called the Pomonal, located not far from Ostia, the ancient port of Rome. Pomona was the goddess of fruit trees, garden, and orchards. Unlike many other Roman goddesses and gods, she does not have a Greek counterpart. She watches over and protects fruit trees and cares for their cultivation. She was not actually associated with the harvest of fruits itself, but with the flourishing of the fruit trees. In artistic depictions she is generally shown with a platter of fruit or a cornucopia.

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Vertumnus
God of Seasons

In Roman mythology, Vertumnus — also Vortumnus or Vertimnus — is the god of seasons, change and plant growth, as well as gardens and fruit trees. He could change his form at will; using this power, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses (xiv), he tricked Pomona into talking to him by disguising himself as an old woman and gaining entry to her orchard, then using a narrative warning of the dangers of rejecting a suitor (the embedded tale of Iphis and Anaxarete) to seduce her. The tale of Vertumnus and Pomona has been called the only purely Latin tale in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Vortumnus' festival was called the Vertumnalia and was held 13 August.

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Felicitas
Goddess of Luck

In ancient Roman culture, felicitas (from the Latin adjective felix, "fruitful, blessed, happy, lucky") is a condition of divinely inspired productivity, blessedness, or happiness. Felicitas could encompass both a woman's fertility, and a general's luck or good fortune. The divine personification of Felicitas was cultivated as a goddess. Although felicitas may be translated as "good luck," and the goddess Felicitas shares some characteristics and attributes with Fortuna, the two were distinguished in Roman religion. Fortuna was unpredictable and her effects could be negative, as the existence of an altar to Mala Fortuna ("Bad Luck") acknowledges. Felicitas, however, always had a positive significance. She appears with several epithets that focus on aspects of her divine power.

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Tiberinus
God of Tiber River

Tiberinus is a figure in Roman mythology. He was added to the 3,000 rivers (sons of Oceanus and Tethys), as the genius of the river Tiber. According to Virgil's epic Aeneid, he helped Aeneas in his travel from Troy, suggesting to him that he land in Latium (see founding of Rome) and gave him much other precious advice. With Manto, Tiberinus was the father of Ocnus. Tiberinus is also known as the river god who found the twins Romulus and Remus and gave them to the she-wolf Lupa (who had just lost her own cubs) to suckle. He later rescued and married Rhea Silvia, the mother of the twins and a Vestal Virgin who had been sentenced to death.

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HINDU PANTHEON

Garuda
The Eagle Man

In Hindu religion, Garuda is a lesser Hindu divinity, usually the mount (vahana) of the God Vishnu. Garuda is depicted as having the golden body of a strong man with a white face, red wings, and an eagle's beak and with a crown on his head. This ancient deity was said to be massive, large enough to block out the sun. Garuda is known as the eternal sworn enemy of the Naga serpent race and known for feeding exclusively on snakes, such behavior may have referred to the actual Short-toed Eagle of India. The image of Garuda is often used as the charm or amulet to protect the bearer from snake attack and its poison, since the king of birds is an implacable enemy and "devourer of serpent". Garudi Vidya is the mantra against snake poison to remove all kinds of evil.

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Indra
God of ThunderStorm

Indra is the leader of the Devas or gods and Lord of Svargaloka or heaven in Hindu mythology. He is the God of war, the god of thunderstorms. His weapon is the bolt (vajra). Indra is one of the chief deities in the Rigveda. He is the twin brother of Agni. He has many epithets, notably v??an the bull, and v?trahan, slayer of V?tra, meghavahana "the one who rides the clouds" & Devapati "the lord of gods or devas".

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Murugan
God of War

Murugan, also called Kartikeya, Skanda and Subrahmanya,nis more popular in South India especially among Tamil people famously referred as Thamizh Kadavul (God of Tamils) compared to other parts of India. In Karnataka he is popular as "Subrahmanya" and is often associated with snakes, famous shrine Kukke Subramanya is well known for Sarpa shanti rites.

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Varuna
God of the Water

Varuna is a god of the sky, of water and of the celestial ocean, as well as a god of law and of the underworld. He is the most prominent Asura in the Rigveda, and lord of the heavens and the earth. In Hindu mythology, Varuna continued to be considered the god of all forms of the water element, particularly the oceans.

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Vayu
God of the Wind

Vayu is a primary Hindu deity, the Lord of the winds, the father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Lord Hanuman. He is also known as Vata, Pavana (the Purifier), and sometimes Pra?a (the breath).

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Surya
The Supreme Light

Surya ("the Supreme Light") Suraya or Phra Athit is the chief solar deity in Hinduism. The term Surya also refers to the Sun, in general. Surya is the chief of the Navagraha, Indian "Classical planets" and important elements of Hindu astrology. He is often depicted riding a chariot harnessed by seven horses or one horse with seven heads, which represent the seven colours of the rainbow or the seven chakras. He also presides over Sunday. Smartas worship him as the five primary forms of God. Aryaman is another name for Surya or the Sun God.

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Rudra
God of Hurricane

Rudra is a Rigvedic God, associated with wind or storm, and the hunt. The name has been translated as "the roarer". The theonym Shiva originates as an epithet of Rudra, the adjective shiva "kind" being used euphemistically of the god who in the Rigveda also carries the epithet ghora "terrible".

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Brahma
God of Creation

Brahma is the Hindu god (deva) of creation and one of the Trimurti, the others being Vi?nu and Siva. According to the Brahma Purana, he is the father of Manu, and from Manu all human beings are descended. He is often referred to as the progenitor or great grandsire of all human beings. He is not to be confused with the Supreme Cosmic Spirit in Hindu Vedanta philosophy known as Brahman, which is genderless. Brahma's wife is Saraswati.

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Yama
God of Death

Yama is the god of death, belonging to an early stratum of Vedic mythology. In the Vedas, Yama is said to have been the first mortal who died. By virtue of precedence, he became the ruler of the departed.

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Shiva
The Destroyer

Shiva (meaning "auspicious one") is a major Hindu deity, and is the Destroyer or Transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power, he lives a life of a sage at Mount Kailash. In the Shaiva tradition of Hinduism, Shiva is seen as the Supreme God and has five important works: creator, preserver, destroyer, concealer, and revealer (to bless).

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Rakshasa
The Man Eater

A Raksasha or alternatively rakshas, is a race of mythological humanoid beings or unrighteous spirit in Hindu and Buddhist religion. Rakshasas are also called man-eaters. Rakshasas are notorious for disturbing sacrifices, desecrating graves, harassing priests, possessing human beings, and so on. Their fingernails are venomous, and they feed on human flesh and spoiled food. They are shapechangers, illusionists, and magicians.

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Chamunda
Aspect of Devi

Chamunda is a fearsome aspect of Devi, the Hindu Divine Mother and one of the seven Matrikas (mother goddesses). The goddess is often portrayed as haunting cremation grounds or fig trees.

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Hanuman
The One whose Pride was Destroyed

Hanuman is a Hindu deity, who was an ardent devotee of Rama according to the Hindu legends. He is a central character in the Indian epic Ramayana, and also finds mentions in several other texts, including Mahabharata, the various Puranas and some Jain texts. A vanara (ape-like humanoid), Hanuman participated in Rama's war against the demon king Ravana. Several texts also present him as an incarnation of the Lord Shiva.

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Durga
Goddess of Victory

Durga meaning "the inaccessible" or "the invincible" is a popular fierce form of the Hindu Goddess or Devi. She is depicted with multiple (variously, up to eighteen) arms, carrying various weapons and riding a ferocious lion or tiger. She is often pictured as battling or slaying demons, particularly Mahishasura, the buffalo demon.

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Ganesha
Lord of Obstacles

Ganesha is one of the deities best-known and most widely worshipped in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India and Nepal. Hindu sects worship him regardless of affiliations. Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to Jains, Buddhists, and beyond India. Although he is known by many other attributes, Ganesha's elephant head makes him particularly easy to identify. Ganesha is widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles and more generally as Lord of Beginnings and Lord of Obstacle patron of arts and sciences, and the deva of intellect and wisdom. He is honoured at the beginning of rituals and ceremonies and invoked as Patron of Letters during writing sessions.

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Shakti
The Great Devine Mother

Shakti ("to be able"), meaning sacred force or empowerment, is the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism. Shakti is the concept, or personification, of divine feminine creative power, sometimes referred to as 'The Great Divine Mother' in Hinduism. On the earthly plane, Shakti most actively manifests through female embodiment and creativity/fertility, though it is also present in males in its potential, unmanifest form,

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Saraswati
Goddess of Knowledge

Saraswati is the goddess of knowledge, music, arts and science. She is the companion of Brahma, also revered as his Shakti. It was with her knowledge, that Brahma created the universe . She is a part of trishakti "Saraswati" "Lakshmi" "Parvati" . All the three forms helping Tridev "Brahma" , "Vishnu" , and "Mahesh / Shiv" , in creation, maintenance and destruction of Universe. Her figure is also popular in the Jain religion of west and central India

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Lakshmi
Goddess of Wealth

Lakshmi is the Hindu goddess of wealth, prosperity (both material and spiritual), fortune, and the embodiment of beauty. She is the consort of the god Vishnu. Also called Mahalakshmi, she is said to bring good luck and is believed to protect her devotees from all kinds of misery and money-related sorrows.

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Bhumi
Goddess of Earth

Bhumi is the personification of Mother Earth. She is also the divine wife of Varaha, an Avatar of Vishnu, the mother of Sita(note the symbolism of the baby Sita being found in a ploughed field). According to the uttara-kanda, when Sita finally leaves her husband Rama, she returns to Bhumidevi.

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Savitr
Solar Deity

Savitr is a solar deity in the Rigveda, and one of the Adityas i.e. off-spring of Vedic deity Aditi. His name in Vedic Sanskrit connotes "impeller, rouser, vivifier". He is sometimes identified with--and at other times distinguished from--Surya, "the Sun". When considered distinct from the Sun proper, he is conceived of as the divine influence or vivifying power of the Sun. The Sun before sunrise is called Savitr, and after sunrise until sunset it is called Surya.

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Mitra
God of Oath

Mitra is an important divinity of Indic culture, and the patron divinity of honesty, friendship, contracts and meetings. Mitra is the god of the oath and tribal contracts. Mitra brings forth the light at dawn, which was covered by Varuna. Mitra together with Varuna is the most prominent deity and the chief of the Adityas in the Rigveda.

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Vishnu
Preserver of the Universe

Vishnu is a popular Hindu god, venerated as the Supreme Being in the Vaishnava sect. He is also commonly known as Narayana or Hari. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of Panchayatana puja. The Vishnu Sahasranama declares Vishnu as Paramatman (supreme soul) and Parameshwara (supreme God). It describes Vishnu as the All-Pervading essence of all beings, the master of—and beyond—the past, present and future, one who supports, sustains and governs the Universe and originates and develops all elements within. This illustrates the omnipresent characteristic of Vishnu. Vishnu governs the aspect of preservation and sustenance of the universe, so he is called "Preserver of the universe".

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Matsya
First Avatar of Vishnu

Matsya, the fish, appeared in the Satya Yuga. The Fish Incarnation is the first incarnation of Vishnu. Lord Vishnu takes the form of a fish to take a king to the new world along with one of every single species of plants and animals from the world's largest cyclone. What we live in now is the new world, where the Lord traveled, carrying everything from the old, destroyed world.

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Kurma
Second Avatar of Vishnu

Kurma, the tortoise, appeared in the Satya Yuga. The tortoise Incarnation is the second incarnation of Vishnu. When the devas and asuras were churning the ocean in order to get the nectar of immortality, the mount Mandara they were using as the churning staff started to sink and Lord Vishnu took the form of a tortoise to bear the weight of the mountain.

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Varaha
Third Avatar of Vishnu

Varaha, the boar, appeared in the Satya Yuga. The Boar incarnation is the third incarnation of Vishnu. He appeared in order to defeat Hiranyaksha, a demon who had taken the Earth (Prithvi) and carried it to the bottom of what is described as the cosmic ocean in the story. The battle between Varaha and Hiranyaksha is believed to have lasted for a thousand years, which the former finally won. Varaha carried the Earth out of the ocean between his tusks and restored it to its place in the universe.

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Narasimha
The Fourth Avatar of Vishnu

Narasimha, the half-man/half-lion appeared in the Satya Yuga. The Man-Lion Incarnation is the fourth incarnation of Vishnu. When the demon Hiranyakashipu acquired a boon from Brahma, which gave him inordinate power, Lord Vishnu appeared in the form of half-man/half-lion, having a human-like torso and a lower body, but with a lion-like face and claws.

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Parashurama
The Sixth Avatar of Vishnu

Parashurama, Rama with the axe, appeared in the Treta Yuga. Parashurama a Brahmin, the sixth avatar of Vishnu, belongs to the Treta yuga, and is the son of Jamadagni and Renuka. Parashu means axe, hence his name literally means Rama-of-the-axe. He received an axe after undertaking a terrible penance to please Shiva, from whom he learned the methods of warfare and other skills. Parashurama is said to be a "Brahma-Kshatriya" (with the duties between a Brahmana and a Kshatriya), the first warrior saint.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Rama
The Perfect Being

Rama is considered the Supreme Being, rather than an avatar. Rama is referred to within Hinduism as Maryada Purushottama, literally the Perfect Man or Lord of Self-Control or Lord of Virtue. Rama is the husband of Sita, whom Hindus consider to be an Avatar of Lakshmi and the embodiment of perfect womanhood. Rama's life and journey is one of perfect adherence to dharma despite harsh tests of life and time. He is pictured as the ideal man and the perfect human. His weapon is a bow.

POSTED 07/08/2012

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Krishna
The Supreme God

Krishna is a Hindu deity, worshipped as a "complete" avatar of the preserver-god, Vishnu.
Krishna is often described and portrayed as an infant or young boy playing a flute as in the Bhagavata Purana, or as a youthful prince giving direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad Gita. They portray him in various perspectives: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero and the Supreme Being. His weapon is Sudarshana Chakra

POSTED 07/08/2012

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Balarama
Elder Brother of the Devine Being

Balarama is the elder brother of the divine being, Krishna in Hinduism. Within Vaishnavism Hindu traditions Balarama is identified and worshipped as an Avatar of Adishesha, and he is also listed as such in the Bhagavata Purana.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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CHINESE PANTHEON

Jade Emperor
Heavenly GrandFather

The Jade Emperor is the ruler of Heaven and all realms of existence below including that of Man and Hell, according to a version of Taoist mythology. He is one of the most important gods of the Chinese traditional religion pantheon. In actual Taoism, the Jade Emperor governs all of the mortals' realm and below, but ranks below the Three Pure Ones.

POSTED 08/11/2012

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Erlang Shen
The God with the Third Truth-Seeing Eye

Erlang Shen is a Chinese God with a third truth-seeing eye in the middle of his forehead. Er-lang Shen may be a deified version of several semi-mythical folk heroes who help regulate China's torrential floods, dating variously from the Qin, Sui and Jin dynasties.

POSTED 27/11/2012

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Zhu Bajie
Pigsy

Zhu Bajie is also known as Zhu Wuneng ("Pig Awakened to Ability") he is one of the three protectors in the form of disciples. He was previously the Marshal of the Heavenly Canopy, a commander of Heaven's naval forces, and was banished to the mortal realm for flirting with the moon goddess Chang'e. A reliable fighter, he is characterised by his insatiable appetites for food and sex, and is constantly looking for a way out of his duties, which causes significant conflict with Sun Wukong.

POSTED 02/08/2012

*If we have in this game Sun Wukong then we MUST have his other 2 friends. This is one of them.

Sha Wujing
Friar Sand

Sha Wujing, also translated as Friar Sand or Sandy. He was previously the celestial Curtain Lifting General, and was banished to the mortal realm for dropping (and shattering) a crystal goblet of the Queen Mother of the West. He is a quiet but generally dependable character, who serves as the straight foil to the comic relief of Sun and Zhu. Sha's weapon is the yueyachan

POSTED 02/08/2012

*This is the third of the gank. Having all 3 of them will be cool.

Zhu Rong
God of Fire

Zhu Rong is an important personage in Chinese mythology and Chinese folk religion. According to the Huainanzi, and according to the philosophical texts of Mozi and his followers, Zhurong is a god of fire and of the south. hurong is depicted as a proud man clad in armor wielding a sword and riding on a large tiger. He was one of the gods that helped separate Heaven and Earth and set up Universal Order.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Yu Shi
Master of Rain

Yu Shi ("Master of Rain") is a Chinese spirit or god of rain, also known as Chisongzi (Master Red Pine), among other names. Other translations of Yu Shi into English include "Lord of Rain" and "Leader of Rain".

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Xihe
Sun Goddess

In Chinese mythology, Xihe is a Chinese sun goddess. One of the two wives of Emperor Jun (along with Changxi), she was once the 'mother' of ten suns, in the form of Three-legged birds, residing in a mulberry tree in the eastern sea named Fusang. Each day one of the sun birds would be rostered to travel around the world on a carriage driven by Xihe.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Chang'e
Goddess of The Moon

Chang'e is the Chinese goddess of the Moon. Unlike many lunar deities in other cultures who personify the Moon, Chang'e only lives on the Moon. Chang'e is the subject of several legends in Chinese mythology, most of which incorporate several of the following elements: Houyi the Archer, a benevolent or malevolent emperor, an elixir of life, and of course, the Moon.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Lei Gong
God of Thunder

Lei Gong ("Duke of Thunder"), also called Lei Kung, or Lei Shen (“Thunder God”), is the Chinese Taoist deity who, when so ordered by heaven, punishes both earthly mortals guilty of secret crimes and evil spirits who have used their knowledge of Taoism to harm human beings. Lei Gong carries a drum and mallet to produce thunder and a chisel to punish evildoers. Lei Gong is depicted as a fearsome creature with claws, bat wings, and a blue face with a bird's beak who wears only a loincloth.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Mazu
Goddess of the Ocean

Mazu ("Mother Ancestor"), also spelt Matsu, is the indigenous goddess of the sea who is said to protect fishermen and sailors, and is invoked as the patron deity of all Southern Chinese and East Asian persons.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Jum Sum
God of Sleep

Jum sum is the Chinese god of sleep or pillow, also of dreams. Originating sometime in the 1st century BC and almost a forgotten deity.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Houyi
God of Archery

Houyi was a mythological Chinese archer. He is sometimes portrayed as a god of archery descended from heaven to aid mankind, and sometimes as the chief of the Youqiong Tribe during the reign of King Tai Kang of Xia Dynasty. His wife, Chang'e, was a lunar deity.

POSTED 08/11/2012

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Yen Lo Wang
God of Death

Yen is the god of death and the ruler of Diyu. He is also known as Yanluowang. In both ancient and modern times, Yan is portrayed as a large man with a scowling red face, bulging eyes, and a long beard. He wears traditional robes and a judge's cap or a crown which bears the character ?, "king." Yan is not only the ruler but also the judge of the underworld and passes judgment on all the dead. He always appears in a male form, and his minions include a judge who holds in his hands a brush and a book listing every soul and the allotted death date for every life.

POSTED 01/12/2012

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Nuba
The Drought Demon

"Ba" is her proper name, with the Nu being an added indication of being feminine and Han meaning "drought". She is one of the first goddesses attested to in Chinese literature, appearing in the early collection of poetry, the Shijing, as well as in the later Shanhaijing. Nuba can be considered to be an ancient Chinese mythical drought demon. After having descended from Heaven to aid Huangdi at Zhoulu, instead of returning to heaven, Ba wandered the earth. Wherever Ba appeared there would be a drought.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Zhong Kui
King of Ghosts

He is a figure of Chinese mythology. Traditionally regarded as a vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings, and reputedly able to command 80,000 demons, his image is often painted on household gates as a guardian spirit, as well as in places of business where high-value goods are involved.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Wenchang Wang
God of Culture and Literature

Wenchang Wang is a Taoist deity in Chinese Mythology, known as the God of Culture and Literature. Wenchang Wang is often depicted as an elderly scholar accompanied by two attendants, Tianlong (?? or Heaven-Deaf) and Diya (?? or Earth-Mute). He has historically been called upon by scholars and writers who need inspiration or help right before an exam.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Cangjie
The Four-Eyed Creator

He is a legendary figure in ancient China (c. 2650 BC), claimed to be an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters. Legend has it that he had four eyes and four pupils, and that when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet. He is considered a legendary rather than historical figure, or at least, not considered to be sole inventor of Chinese characters.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Ji Gong
The Chan Buddhist Monk

Daoji commonly known as Ji Gong was a Chan Buddhist monk of the Southern Song Dynasty in China. He was born with the name of Li Xiuyuan. Some sources have cited his name as Li Xiuyuan. Dao Ji was also called Hu Yin (Recluse from the Lake) and Elder Fang Yuan (Square Circle).

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Meng Po
Lady of Forgetfulness

Meng Po ("Old Lady Meng") is the Lady of Forgetfulness in Chinese mythology. Meng Po serves in Diyu, the Chinese realm of the dead. It is her task to ensure that souls who are ready to be reincarnated do not remember their previous life or their time in hell. To this end she collects herbs from various earthly ponds and streams to make her Five Fl avored Tea of Forgetfulness ("waters of oblivion"). This is given to each soul to drink before they leave Diyu. The brew induces instant and permanent amnesia, and all memory of other lives is lost. Having been purged of all previous sins and knowledge, the dead spirit is sent to be reborn in a new earthly incarnation, and the cycle begins again. Occasionally people are able to avoid drinking the brew, resulting in past life memories surfacing in children.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Acala (Fudo)
The Immovable One

Acala ( "immovable" one) is one of fierce, angry-faced guardian deities of Vajrayana Buddhism. His face is expressive of extreme wrath, wrinkle-browed, left eye squinted or looking askance, lower teeth biting down the upper lip. He has the physique of a corpulent (round-bellied) child. He bears a sword on his right, and a lariat or noose on his left hand. He is engulfed in flame, and seated on a "huge rock base".

POSTED 01/12/2012

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Nez ha
The Third Lotus Prince

Nezha is a Taoist protection deity, originally of Chinese Buddhist mythology. His official Taoist name is "Marshal of the Central Altar". He was then given the title "Third Lotus Prince" after he became a deity.

POSTED 10/11/2012
ADDED IN GAME 17/04/2013

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Lu Bu
The Flying General

Lu Bu was a military general and later a minor warlord during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history. According to the Records of Three Kingdoms, Lu Bu was highly-skilled in horse-riding and archery, and was thus nicknamed "Flying General". His image as a handsome and mighty warrior wearing a pheasant-tailed headdress and wielding a ji known as the "Sky Piercer" on top of his steed Red Hare was later popularized by Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the story, he is considered the single most powerful warrior in all of China.

POSTED 19/11/2012

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Zhuge Liang
Crouching Dragon

Zhuge Liang was a chancellor of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. He is often recognized as the greatest and most accomplished strategist of his era. Often depicted wearing a robe and holding a hand fan made of crane feathers, Zhuge Liang was not only an important military strategist and statesman; he was also an accomplished scholar and inventor. His reputation as an intelligent and learned scholar grew even while he was living in relative seclusion, earning him the nickname "Wolong" (Crouching Dragon)

POSTED 26/09/2012

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Lo Pan
The Evil Sorcerer

Lo Pan (Lo-Pan) is an evil sorcerer who just wanted to have flesh again and rule the world. Lo Pan has a legion of followers who will die to protect him and three skilled martial artists with supernatural and elemental powers at his side. However, for thousands of years, all this guy needed to realize his power was a girl with green eyes.

POSTED 21/11/2012

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Seiryu
Azure Dragon of the East

The Azure Dragon is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. It represents the east and the spring season. This guardian spirit is known as Seiryu (Qing-Long in Chinese) or AO KUANG and is the protector of the East.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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LOOKS FAMILIAR? It's the Dragon King of the East AO KUANG. It's name in the game is Ao Kuang. And he has wind abilities just like some myths although his element is wood. From the first time I saw this I was sure it was Seiryu and was happy for the fact that they might one day add the 3 other guardians of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations.

Suzaku
Vermilion Bird of the South

The Vermilion bird is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. It represents the fire-element, the direction south, and the season summer correspondingly. This guardian spirit is known as Suzaku (Zhuque in Chinese) and is the protector of the South.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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This MUST be added. Suzaku will be awesome in this game. We need another character who does fire damage than agni. Afterall Ao Kuang is in so this one should be too.
(I was dissapointed from the fact that there are 3 phoenixes as guardians in a Greek Pantheon map when phoenix is from Chinese Pantheon)

Byakko
White Tiger of the West

The White Tiger is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. It represents the west and the autumn season. This guardian spirit is known as Byakko (Baihu in Chinese) and is the guardian of the West.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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The White Tiger is so cool. Although his element is metal they also say it's lightning too. His speed should be amazing. (I expect white tiger to look more anthropomorphous)

Genbu
Black Warrior of the North

The Black Tortoise is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. It represents the north and the winter season. This guardian spirit is known as Genbu (Xuanwu in Chinese) and is the protector of the North.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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Genbu is awesome. He sure is going to be a tank of water element. It's appearance could be so awesome if it will look too more anthropomorphous. Beast!

Ouryuu
Yellow Dragon of the Center

The Yellow Dragon is a fifth legendary beast of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations . It is associated with the cardinal direction of "center," as well as the changing of the seasons. This guardian spirit is known as Ouryuu (Huang-long in Chinese) and is the protector of the Center.

POSTED 02/08/2012

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Another dragon. Although its impossible to add another dragon (Impossible is to add all these too :roll: but he would be a good character if they will add it.

Gong Gong
God of Water

Gong Gong is a Chinese water god or sea monster, said to resemble a serpent or dragon. He is said to be responsible for the great floods together with his associate, Xiang Yao who has nine heads and the body of a snake.

POSTED 08/11/2012

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Qi Lin
The Chimerical

The Qilin is a mythical hooved Chinese chimerical creature known throughout various East Asian cultures, and is said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a wise sage or an illustrious ruler. It is a good omen that brings rui (translated as "serenity" or "prosperity"). It is often depicted with what looks like fire all over its body. It is sometimes misleadingly called the "Chinese unicorn" due to conflation with the unicorn by Westerners.

POSTED 01/12/2012

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Fei Lian
God of the Wind

Fei Lian / Fie Lien (Flying Curtain) is the Chinese god of the wind. He is a winged dragon with the head of a sparrow, the horns of a bull, body and legs of a stag and the tail of a snake. He carries wind with him in a bag and stirs up trouble. Fei Lian is kept in check by Houyi, the heavenly archer. In his human form he is known as Feng Bo.

POSTED 08/11/2012

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FangFeng
The Giant of the Great Flood

He is a character from Chinese mythology as well as having been worshiped as a deity in Chinese popular religion. As a mythological figure, Fangfeng is mostly known for arriving late for an assembly called by Yu the Great after the end of the Great Flood, and then being executed at the orders of Yu. Because Fangfeng was a giant (of nearly 10 meters/33 feet), the executioner had to build a big **** in order to reach his head. A common depiction of Fangfeng was as one-eyed and browed, dragon-headed, and ox-eared.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Tu Di Gong
God of Earth

Tu Di Gong is a Chinese earth god worshipped by Chinese folk religion worshippers and Taoists. A more formal name for Tu Di Gong is Fude Zhengshen literally the "God of Fortunes and Virtues". Tu Di Gong is portrayed as an elderly man with a long white beard, a black or gold hat and a red or yellow robe, which signifies his position as a bureaucrat. He carries a wooden staff in his right hand and a golden ingot on the left

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Zhang Guifang
Commander of Green Dragon Pass

Zhang Guifang is the commander of Green Dragon Pass and serves under Grand Old Master Wen Zhong like an iron sword. In appearance, Zhang wears bulky white royal armor and wields a large ice spear. Due to Zhang's original status, he wields the magical ability "name call"; with this ability, Zhang could paralyze any individual if he happens to say their true name (such an ability is impossible to use on Superiormen however).

POSTED 08/11/2012

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Zhang Fei
One of the Three Sworn Brothers

One of the Three Brothers of the Peach Orchard alongside Guan Yu and Liu Bei and one of China's most famous General's turned Saint, he is renown for his great strength, bravery and loyalty, and his temper. He is associated primarily with Butchers and is reputed as a bit of an alcoholic.

POSTED 03/10/2012

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Liu Bei
One of the Three Sworn Brothers

He was a military general and later the founding emperor of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history. Liu Bei is widely known as the ideal benevolent, humane ruler who cared for his people and selected good advisors for his government. His fictional character was a salutary example of a ruler who adhered to the Confucian set of moral values, such as loyalty and compassion. Historically, Liu Bei was a brilliant politician and leader whose skill was a remarkable demonstration of a Legalist.

POSTED 03/10/2012

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Fu Xi
God of Happiness

In Chinese mythology, Fu Xi is a culture hero reputed to be the inventor of writing, fishing, and trapping. However, Cangjie is also said to have invented writing.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Kuan Ti
God of War

Kuan-Ti was a god based on a real man. According to the story, he was born poor and when he was a child he sold tofu for a living on the street (but historians say tofu was not actually invented until the Sung Dynasty, hundreds of years later). He was a famous general during the Han Dynasty (about 200 BC-200 AD). Kuan-Ti is always shown as a red-faced man dressed in green. He was a war god, who also protected people from evil demons, and from anything that was unfair. He's different from other war gods like the Greek god Ares because Kuan-Ti never starts wars, he only defends you when someone attacks you. He also could tell you the future.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Cai Shen
God of Wealth

Cai Shen ("God of Wealth") is the Chinese god of prosperity. Though Cai Shen started as a Chinese folk hero, later deified and venerated by local followers and admirers, Taoism and Pure Land Buddhism also came to venerate him as a god. Cai Shen's name is often invoked during the Chinese New Year celebrations. He is often depicted riding a black tiger and holding a golden rod. He may also be depicted with an iron tool capable of turning stone and iron into gold.

POSTED 08/11/2012

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Kui Xing
God of Examinations

Kui Xing also known as "Great Master Kui" or "Great Kui the Star Prince", is a character in Chinese mythology, the god of examinations, and an associate or servant of the god of literature, Wen Chang. The name 'Kui Xing' literally means "Chief Star(s)", and anciently referred to the 'spoon' of the Big Dipper.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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Jao Jun
The Kitchen God

The Kitchen god, named Zao Jun (literally "stove master") or Zao Shen (literally "stove god or stove spirit"), is the most important of a plethora of Chinese domestic gods that protect the hearth and family. In addition he is celebrated in Vietnamese culture as well. It is believed that on the twenty third day of the twelfth lunar month, just before Chinese New Year he returns to Heaven to report the activities of every household over the past year to the Jade Emperor.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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The Three Pure Ones
Taoist Trinity

The Three Pure Ones also translated as the Three Pure Pellucid Ones, the Three Pristine Ones, the Three Divine Teachers, the Three Clarities, or the Three Purities are the Taoist Trinity, the three highest Gods in the Taoist pantheon. They are regarded as pure manifestation of the Tao and the origin of all sentient beings.

The Jade Pure One

The Jade Pure One is also known as "The Universally Honoured One of Origin", or "The Universal Lord of Primordial Beginning"

The Supreme Pure One

The Supreme Pure One is also known as "The Universally Honoured One of Divinities and Treasures", or "The Universal Lord of the Numinous Treasure"

The Grand Pure One

The Grand Pure One also known as "The Universally Honoured One of Tao and Virtues" or "The Universal Lord of the Way and its Virtue"

POSTED 10/11/2012

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The Eight Immortals
The Legendary Saints

The Eight Immortals are a group of legendary xian ("immortals; transcendents; saints") in Chinese mythology. Each Immortal's power can be transferred to a power tool that can bestow life or destroy evil. Together, these eight tools are called the "Covert Eight Immortals". Most of them are said to have been born in the Tang or Song Dynasty. They are revered by the Taoists, and are also a popular element in the secular Chinese culture. They are said to live on a group of five islands in the Bohai Sea which includes Penglai Mountain-Island.

The Immortals are:

Immortal Woman He (He Xiangu),
Royal Uncle Cao (Cao Guojiu),
Iron-Crutch Li (Tieguai Li),
Lan Caihe,
Lu ****bin, leader;
Philosopher Han Xiang (Han Xiang Zi),
Elder Zhang Guo (Zhang Guo Lao), and
Han Zhongli (Zhongli Quan).

POSTED 10/11/2012

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JAPANESE PANTHEON

Amaterasu
Goddess of The Universe

Amaterasu is a part of the Japanese myth cycle and also a major deity of the Shinto religion. She is the goddess of the sun, but also of the universe. The name Amaterasu derived from Amateru meaning "shining in heaven." The meaning of her whole name, Amaterasu-omikami, is "the great august kami (Gama or God) who shines in the heaven". The Emperor of Japan is said to be a direct descendant of Amaterasu.

POSTED 10/09/2012

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Tsukuyomi
The Moon God

Tsukuyomi or Tsukiyomi is the moon god in Shinto and Japanese mythology. The name Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto is a combination of the Japanese words for "moon; month" (tsuki) and "to read; to count" (yomu). Another interpretation is that his name is a combination of "moonlit night" (Tsukiyo) and a verb meaning "to look at" (miru).

POSTED 04/10/2012

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Susanoo
The Storm God

In Japanese mythology, Susanoo, the powerful storm of Summer also known as Takehaya Susanoo-no-Mikoto is the Shinto god of the sea and storms. He is also considered to be ruler of Yomi (World of Darkness). He is the brother of Amaterasu, the goddess of the Sun, and of Tsukuyomi, the god of the Moon. All three were born from Izanagi, when he washed his face clean of the pollutants of Yomi, the underworld. Amaterasu was born when Izanagi washed out his left eye, Tsukuyomi was born from the washing of the right eye, and Susanoo from the washing of the nose. Susanoo possessed Totsuka-no-Tsurugi, a sword his father used to tear the body of his brother Kagu-Tsuchi, as his weapon.

POSTED 04/10/2012

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Izanagi
God of Creation

Izanagi is a deity born of the seven divine generations in Japanese mythology and Shinto, and is also referred to in the roughly translated Kojiki as "male-who-invites" or Izanagi-no-mikoto ("Lord Izanagi"). It is also pronounced Izanagi-no-Okami ("The God Izanagi"). He with his spouse and younger sister, Izanami, bore many islands, deities and forefathers of Japan. When Izanami died in childbirth, Izanagi tried (but failed) to retrieve her from Yomi (the underworld). In the cleansing rite after his return, he begot Amaterasu (the sun goddess) from his left eye, Tsukuyomi (the moon god) from his right eye and Susanoo (tempest or storm god) from his nose.

POSTED 04/10/2012

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Izanami
Goddess of Creation

In Japanese mythology, Izanami-no-Mikoto, meaning "she who invites" is a goddess of both creation and death, as well as the former wife of the god Izanagi-no-Mikoto. She is also referred to as Izanami-no-kami. The Queen of Yomi is a terrifying and tragic figure, a rotting reminder of the inevitable death that awaits all living things. Once a carefree and loving goddess of creation and life, she is now the goddess of death and of the impenetrable darkness, and she rules her joyless underworld realm with no compassion or hesitation. Despite her gruesome appearance and horrible domain, she is nevertheless treated with the greatest respect by the other Amatsukami; after all, with a very few exceptions, she is the mother of all the other gods

POSTED 04/10/2012

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Ryujin
Dragon God of the Sea

Ryujin also known as Owatatsumi, was the tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology. This Japanese dragon symbolized the power of the ocean, had a large mouth, and was able to transform into a human shape. Ryujin lived in Ryugu-jo, his palace under the sea built out of red and white coral, from where he controlled the tides with magical tide jewels. Sea turtles, fish and jellyfish are often depicted as Ryujin's servants. Ryujin was the father of the beautiful goddess Otohime who married the hunter prince Hoori.

POSTED 04/10/2012

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Suijin
God of Water

Suijin (water god?) is the Shinto god of water in Japan. The term Suijin (literally water people or water deity) refers to the heavenly and earthly manifestations of the benevolent Shinto divinity of water. But it also refers to a wide variety of mythological and magical creatures found in lakes, ponds, springs and wells, including serpents (snakes and dragons), eels, fish, turtles, and the flesh-eating kappa. As The God of Water, Mizu no Kamisama, Mizugami, or Suijinsama, he is widely revered in Japan.

POSTED 04/10/2012

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Fujin
God of Wind

Fujin (???) or Futen is the Japanese god of the wind and one of the eldest Shinto gods.He is portrayed as a terrifying dark demon, resembling a red headed black humanoid wearing a leopard skin, carrying a large bag of winds on his shoulders.In Japanese art, the deity is often depicted together with Raijin, the god of lightning, thunder and storms.

POSTED 4/10/2012

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Raijin
God of Lightning

Raijin is a god of lightning, thunder and storms in the Shinto religion and in Japanese mythology.
His name is derived from the Japanese words rai (?, meaning ‘thunder’) and shin (?, ‘god’ or 'kami'). He is typically depicted as a demon beating drums to create thunder, usually with the symbol tomoe drawn on the drums.

POSTED 10/09/2012

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Inari
Goddess of Fertility

Inari Okami is the Japanese kami of fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry, and worldly success and one of the principal kami of Shinto. Represented as male, female, or androgynous. The most popular representations of Inari, according to scholar Karen Ann Smyers, are a young female food goddess, an old man carrying rice, and an androgynous bodhisattva. No one view is correct; the preferred gender of depiction varies according to regional traditions and individual beliefs. Because of his/her close association with kitsune, Inari is often believed to be a fox; though this belief is widespread, both Shinto and Buddhist priests discourage it. Inari also appears in the form of a snake or dragon, and one folktale has Inari appear to a wicked man in the shape of a monstrous spider as a way of teaching him a lesson.

POSTED 04/10/2012

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Bishamonten
God of Warriors

In Japan, Bishamonten (????), or just Bishamon (???) is thought of as an armor-clad god of warfare or warriors and a punisher of evildoers – a view that is at odds with the more pacific Buddhist king described above. Bishamon is portrayed holding a spear in one hand and a small pagoda in the other hand, the latter symbolizing the divine treasure house, whose contents he both guards and gives away. In Japanese folklore, he is one of the Japanese Seven Gods of Fortune.

POSTED 06/10/2012

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Yuki-onna
The Snow Woman

Yuki Onna (???, snow woman) is a spirit or yokai in Japanese folklore. Yuki-onna appears on snowy nights as a tall, beautiful woman with long black hair and blue lips. Her inhumanly pale or even transparent skin makes her blend into the snowy landscape (as famously described in Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things). She sometimes wears a white kimono, but other legends describe her as nude, with only her face and hair standing out against the snow. Despite her inhuman beauty, her eyes can strike terror into mortals. She floats across the snow, leaving no footprints (in fact, some tales say she has no feet, a feature of many Japanese ghosts), and she can transform into a cloud of mist or snow if threatened.

POSTED 10/11/2012

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AZTEC PANTHEON

Tezcatlipoca
The Jaguar God

One of the four sons of Ometeotl, He is the god of the nocturnal sky, god of the ancestral memory, god of time and the Lord of the North, the embodiment of change through conflict. He is associated with a wide range of concepts, including the night sky, the night winds, hurricanes, the north, the earth, obsidian, enmity, discord, rulership, divination, temptation, jaguars, sorcery, beauty, war and strife. His name in the Nahuatl language is often translated as "Smoking Mirror" and alludes to his connection to obsidian, the material from which mirrors were made in Mesoamerica and which was used for shamanic rituals.

POSTED 06/08/2012

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Quetzalcoatl
The Feathered Snake God

Quetzalcoatl is a Mesoamerican deity whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and has the meaning of "feathered serpent". Among the Aztecs, whose beliefs are the best-documented in the historical sources, Quetzalcoatl was related to gods of the wind, of Venus, of the dawn, of merchants and of arts, crafts and knowledge. He was also the patron god of the Aztec priesthood, of learning and knowledge.[6] Quetzalcoatl was one of several important gods in the Aztec pantheon.

POSTED 06/08/2012

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Coatlicue
The Lady Of The Serpent

Coatlicue, also known as Teteoinan , "The Mother of Gods" is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war. She is also known as Toci (Toci, "our grandmother") and Cihuacoatl (Cihuacohuatl, "the lady of the serpent"), the patron of women who die in childbirth. She is represented as a woman wearing a skirt of writhing snakes and a necklace made of human hearts, hands, and skulls. Her feet and hands are adorned with claws and her breasts are depicted as hanging flaccid from pregnancy. Her face is formed by two facing serpents (after her head was cut off and the blood spurt forth from her neck in the form of two gigantic serpents),referring to the myth that she was sacrificed during the beginning of the present creation.

POSTED 25/08/2012

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Coyolxauhqui
Goddess of the Milky Way

In Aztec mythology, Coyolxauhqui ( "Face painted with Bells") was a daughter of Coatlicue and Mixcoatl and is the leader of the Centzon Huitznahuas, the star gods. Coyolxauhqui was a powerful magician and led her siblings in an attack on their mother, Coatlicue, because Coatlicue had become pregnant.

POSTED 25/08/2012

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Huitzilopochtli
Left-Handed Hummingbird

He is a mezoamerican deity of war, sun, human sacrifice and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan. He was also the national god of the Mexicas of Tenochtitlan. Huitzilopochtli was represented as a hummingbird (or with just the feathers of such on his head and left leg), a black face, and holding a scepter shaped like a snake and a mirror.

POSTED 25/08/2012

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Xiuhcoatl
The Turquoise Serpent

Xiuhcoatl was a mythological serpent, it was regarded as the spirit form of Xiuhtecuhtli, the Aztec fire deity. Xiuhcoatl was typically depicted with a sharply back-turned snout and a segmented body. Its tail resembled the trapeze-and-ray year sign, and probably does represent that symbol. In Nahuatl, the word xihuitl means "year", "turquoise" and "grass". The tail of Xiuhcoatl is often marked with the Aztec symbol for "grass". The body of the Xiuhcoatl was wrapped with knotted strips of paper, linking the serpent to bloodletting and sacrifice.

POSTED 25/08/2012

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Nanauatzin
The God of The Burning Sun

He is the most humble of the gods, sacrificed himself in fire so that he would continue to shine on Earth as the sun, thus becoming the sun god. Nanahuatl means "full of sores." In the Codex Borgia, Nanahuatl is represented as a man emerging from a fire. This was originally interpreted as an illustration of cannibalism.

POSTED 25/08/2012

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Tecciztecatl
The Old Moon God

Tecciztecatl ("old moon god" also Tecuciztecal, Tecuciztecatl) was a lunar deity, representing the old "man-in-the-moon". He could have been the sun god, but he feared the sun's fire, so Nanahuatzin became the sun god and Tecciztecatl (in the form of a rabbit) was promptly thrown into the moon. In some depictions he carried a large, white seashell on his back, representing the moon itself; in others he had butterfly wings. He was a son of Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue.

POSTED 25/08/2012

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SUMERIAN PANTHEON

Anu
God of Heaven

He was a sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, Consort of Antu, spirits and demons, and dwelt in the highest heavenly regions. It was believed that he had the power to judge those who had committed crimes, and that he had created the stars as soldiers to destroy the wicked. His attribute was the royal tiara. He was one of the oldest gods in the Sumerian pantheon, and part of a triad including Enlil, god of the air and Enki, god of water.

POSTED 26/09/2012

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Ninkasi
Goddess of Beer

She is the ancient Sumerian matron goddess of beer. Her father was Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and her mother was Ninti, the queen of the Abzu. She is also one of the eight children created in order to heal one of the eight wounds that Enki receives. Furthermore, she is the goddess of alcohol. She was also borne of "sparkling fresh water." She is the goddess made to "satisfy the desire" and "sate the heart." She would prepare the beverage daily

POSTED 26/09/2012

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Inanna
Goddess of Sexual Love

Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare. Alternative Sumerian names include Innin, Ennin, Ninnin, Ninni, Ninanna, Ninnar, Innina, Ennina, Irnina, Innini, Nana, and Nin. These names are commonly derived from an earlier, Nin-ana "lady of the sky", although the oldest form is, Innin (DINNIN), and that Ninni, Nin-anna, and Irnina are independent goddesses in origin. Her Akkadian counterpart is Ishtar.

POSTED 26/09/2012

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Sin
God of the Moon

Sin or Nanna was the god of the moon in Mesopotamian mythology. Nanna is a Sumerian deity, the son of Enlil and Ninlil, and became identified with Semitic Sin. The two chief seats of Nanna's/Sin's worship were Ur in the south of Mesopotamia and Harran in the north. Sin had a beard made of lapis lazuli and rode on a winged bull. The bull was one of his symbols, through his father, Enlil, "Bull of Heaven", along with the crescent and the tripod (which may be a lamp-stand). On cylinder seals, he is represented as an old man with a flowing beard and the crescent symbol. In the astral-theological system he is represented by the number 30 and the moon.

POSTED 26/09/2012

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