Most interesting pantheon

[Kyriakos]

A poll about some of the pantheons. I confess i know little of the hindu one, although i recall being horrified by an image of the Godess Kali when i was in elementary school
You can also say why you chose the option you chose.


The options are:

-Greek pantheon

-Nordic pantheon

-Egyptian pantheon

-Hindu pantheon

-Christian pantheon

-Slavic pantheon

-Other

Poll will be up soon, by Heracles!

 

[Dachs]

"Christian pantheon"?

where's the Latin pantheon?

 

[Kyriakos]

Yeah, i thought of that, but in a way you have God in the trinity, and then lesser beings of divine magnitude (angels, saints etc). But you do not have exactly many different gods.

The latin one probably would have been too close to the greek one, although i am no expert on it.

Also: i wanted 7 choices

 

[NovaKart]

I always thought the McDonalds pantheon was a bit interesting if odd. Ronald is just creepy, never cared for him a but, but the others are a bit interesting. There's Grimace, what is he supposed to be anyway? There's the bird with the aviator goggles, the hamburglar. I can't remember if there are any others.

It's kind of hard for me to imagine people actually worshipping the Greek pantheon since there are so many stories with them acting foolish, but apparently they did. I suppose of the above I like the Nordic pantheon the best.

 

[Veles]

This thread needs more graphical material. Imma post some pretty pics, relating to Slavic (Russian in particular) mytholgy, if you don't mind.

Spoiler :

Sviatovid

Radegast

Perun

Hors

Belobog

Chernobog

Div

Svarog

A Slavic mythical civilization of Belovodie

 

[Dachs]

It's kind of hard for me to imagine people actually worshipping the Greek pantheon since there are so many stories with them acting foolish, but apparently they did. I suppose of the above I like the Nordic pantheon the best.

It's kind of hard for me to imagine people actually worshiping the Nordic pantheon since there are so many stories with them acting foolish, but apparently they did.

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It's an entirely different conception of what godhood actually is. These aren't omnipotent beings or moral signposts, here.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I guess I'll have to say it. The Egyptian one because half of them are furries.

I do find the other pantheons in general interesting. I used to have a a couple of books about mythology. One of them I got free with a game and I read that one a lot when I was at school. It only mentioned the myths of the Romans, Norse, some British and for some reason Charlemagne.

 

[NovaKart]

When did I say the Nordic pantheon never acted foolish? I just find them the most interesting.

We all have our cultural bias and that's why it's hard for me to imagine people taking the Greek gods seriously as actual dieties. Take that as you will.

 

[Kyriakos]

Although there are many examples of the Greek dodecatheon in particular acting in childish manners, other myths have them be something a lot more serious, and drama usually presents them as austere and sinister. Take for example the fate of Pentheas in Euripides' The Bacchai, where Pentheas wants to uphold the strict Apollonian logic and law in the city, and Dionysus has Pentheas's own mother become a maeniad and in the end hold a pike with her son's head on it.

I mean even the Jewish god would envy such cruelty

 

[NovaKart]

For what it's worth, I made the choice of the Norse after thinking for like 30 seconds - What's the most interesting pantheon, how the hell should I know, I guess I should pick one and make some sort of comment after making the McDonald's comment. And I did this while watching a clip of Joan Rivers on a late night talk show on youtube and I've been drinking.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hey, we are all brothers under Zeus, so no harm done

 

[NovaKart]

I do like the Greek pantheon but it's also the pantheon I'm the most familiar with so that's why I didn't choose it as the most interesting. I suppose things I'm less familiar with are often more interesting. There are apparently a lot more myths beyond the ones which are the most familiar so it would be interesting to look into that more.

 

[bombshoo]

I prefer the Atheist-Socialist pantheon of Marx, Darwin and Obama.

 

[_random_]

Yeah, i thought of that, but in a way you have God in the trinity, and then lesser beings of divine magnitude (angels, saints etc). But you do not have exactly many different gods.

It's not a Pantheon at all though. A divine person is not the same as a god, and angels and saints aren't divine.

I'll go with the Norse pantheon, since Thor comics are pretty cool.

 

[Dachs]

I'll go with the Norse pantheon, since Thor comics are pretty cool.

 

[Omega124]

Nordic is the best, because all the gods are MANLY. Even the women.

Plus, all the Greek gods did was overblow problems, usually making them worse. The whole Trojan War ordeal was a major example of screwing around. Plus, people over-romanticize it to the point that it is not interesting. Egyptian is cool, but the Nordic tales are just more interesting.

Christianity is not a pantheon, and I'll admit I know too little on the others to vote for them.

 

[gangleri2001]

As a pagan myself all I can say is that this thread is a big, huge facepalm. First, because with the exceptions of the Kemetian (aka. Egyptian) pantheon and the Christian pantheon (WTH?!) all other pantheons are Indo-european, which means that they're nothing but different ethnical versions of the same religion.

Having said this all I feel I have to add now is that I'm sick of people using the word "Nordic" as a synonym of GERMANIC paganism. In the north there're also the Celtic, Baltic, Finnish and Sami traditions and the most alive of them is the Baltic one (Romuva). So people, stop using it as a synonym for Germanic paganism.

And finally, the lack of Latin paganism is pretty much fail. I understand the lack of other less-known european (not necessarily Indo-european) traditions such as the Iberian, the Baltic or the Illyrian, but the lack of the Latin one is absolutely inexcusable given the huge impact that has had (and still has) in the way of thinking and acting of all westerners.

 

[Tee Kay]

Where's Aztec?

 

[Dachs]

First, because with the exceptions of the Kemetian (aka. Egyptian) pantheon and the Christian pantheon (WTH?!) all other pantheons are Indo-european, which means that they're nothing but different ethnical versions of the same religion.

that's pretty disgustingly reductionist (outside of being blatantly wrong but whatever) and something that you yourself go on to implicitly contradict later in the same post

 

[warpus]

I've always for some reason been fond of Aztec mythology