Which religious or historic entity/being can be argued to be the most ominous?

[Kyriakos]

There are a few i can think of readily. Tezcatlipoca (main Aztec deity) looks like some strange spaceman, and also seems to have the end of one of his legs chopped off and replaced by some tentacles. Baphomet has a strange shape. Various ancient Egyptian gods were rather monstrous in form

And some trivia:

There was said to exist in classical-era central Athens, near the main Stoa, a path of three converging roads over which there had been erected a statue of Hermes, which either had three or four heads. This is mentioned both in concurrent texts (a comedy by Aristophanes makes fun of the statue) and in the massive work of Photius, in the 9th century AD, titled Bibliotheke, or Myriobiblos (Photius Biblioteca in latin).

In the Biblioteca it is also noted that the statue had the name of "Hermes four-headed (or four-ended), seer of all". It is supposed that each head was directed at one of the forking paths

 

[Tee Kay]

Interesting thread.

The Third Reich is a strong contender.

 

[Kyriakos]

Interesting thread.

The Third Reich is a strong contender.

Well, speaking of Germanic entities ( ) i heard that Loki supposedly got his own self raped by a common horse.
Not very divine. Not really ominous either, i guess. More of a fail?

 

[Phrossack]

What's with you and the word "ominous?" It just means "giving the impression that something bad is going to happen."

 

[Kyriakos]

What's with you and the word "ominous?" It just means "giving the impression that something bad is going to happen."

^That is a foreshadowing of something negative.

Ominous can either mean an omen of something bad, or the sense that something will lead to disaster (regardless of there being any rational explanation for this dread). By constrast, foreshadowing a negative by itself is to account for the reason you expect the negative to happen.

TL: DR : Ominous can and usually has a far more negative or alarming connotation

 

[Agent327]

What on earth is a historic entity or being? (And ominous is a very vague term.)

 

[Kyriakos]

Check the OP, use some thinking power to deduct what it could mean through the examples given.

In case of your fail, leave thread?

 

[Lord of Elves]

Check the OP, use some thinking power to deduct what it could mean through the examples given.

In case of your fail, leave thread?

In case of poorly written OP, concede explaining concept of the thread to posters?

 

[Borachio]

Television. An entity that hypnotizes its victims (numbering in the billions) and persuades them to buy tat.

 

[Adjuvant]

Cthulhu is pretty creepy.

Overall, though, contrary to Egyptian-style avatars, I've personally found bestial creatures with human faces the most creepy, like manticores. I think it's because I empathize more when I look at their faces and it makes me feel like they're "broken", somehow.

 

[Ajidica]

God.
The guy nuked two cities, murdered the firstborn in Egypt, and intended for his son to be crucified.

 

[Kyriakos]

God.
The guy nuked two cities, murdered the firstborn in Egypt, and intended for his son to be crucified.

Tend to agree.

Afterall it is quite creepy for a bad parent who made life hell for so many, to actually think the way to redeem himself would be by sending his son to be killed by their children.

And all along insist that he is the good guy too (and you better believe it- or else) :/

 

[Plotinus]

Moderator Action: Both the OP and the course of the discussion seem to be replicating this thread. So thread closed.