FUCK YEAH I'M THE SUN BITCH

Eris is Sexy Bad Girl personified.

I've always enjoyed Minerva.

Crossan Gender Roles!
Fightan smarter, not harer!
Transgenderan!

>>5170563
Who is this chick anyway? I see her around /tg/ a lot.

>>5170583
Amaterasu, Japanese Wolf Goddess of the Sun

>>5170583
She's the motherfucking sun.

Lord of the fucking mountain. This is my spokesman mother fuckers.

Why hello there.
If you're looking for love, beauty, war, money and death, I'm your gal. All of the beautiful things in life, that's me folks.

Manliest of manly gods

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

>>5170606
NO! I AM!

Coyote is my favorite.

>>5170638
Funny, I don't see your divine beauty and radiance bringing life to the darkest corners of the Earth.

>>5170667
Damn you Coyote. You and your...fucking nonsensical shit.

>>5170571
Fuck year, Athena.

>>5170670
No, but I light every corner of Creation, and its bigger than your puny little Earth. Also, I have my own shadow. DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN SHADOW?!

>>5170571
seconded
although I do have a predisposition since I have a massive stone one of these

>>5170620
>mythological
>deities

You fail English forever.

OP here. Come to the best site on the Internet:
http://www.ÄnönTälk.cöm/
remove the dots over the letters
>gfd n hs yh jhfkjhpcs jgddidsd

His guts got eaten for our fire.

My favorite god? Xom

>>5170714
Prometheus was a true bro.

>>5170697
Oh yeah? Well I have a fucking hot ass sister.

Yess Amaterasu, and we would appreciate it if you would stop flashing your bright self all up in 'our' Dark Corners of the Earth unless you are fully prepared for the consequences, you know how we feel bout deem Japanese girls right?

This motherfucker right here.

Blinded himself for wisdom, hanged himself for knowledge, and basically the inspiration for the Christian version of the Father God.

Also, the tale of his passing is extremely fucking sad. His death is awesome though.

>>5170774

HE FOUGHT A FUCKING HUUUUUGE BEAST AND WENT TO VALHALLAAAAAA

Who does he off in Ragnarok anyway? I mean, most of what I know I know from Amon Amarth.

Amaterasu fucking hid in a cave after ONE INSULT! YHWH is the best!

>>5170745
Hey, the outfit wasn't really something I had much choice over.

>> ITT Your favorite mythological deities
>> mythological deities
>> mythological

>>5170801
ಠ_ಠ

>>5170785

WHEN WE HAVE ODEN ON OUR SIDE WE ARE VICTORIOUS

You are now a favorite Plaything of Xom.
Enjoy your random teleports into oceans of ogre mages.

>>5170723

brometheus
broseidon
brosephone
brodysseus
brocules

Moar furball!

Shamash. He's basically Babylonian Pelor. And some people think worship of YHWH developed from worship of Shamash, so as a Christfag I pretty much have to like him.

>>5170849
At least call me Yue!

>>5170774
>>5170774
This badass motherfucker. Even though i find Amaterasu quite attractive, no goddess can match the manliness of the father of the gods.

>>5170868
Pfah. "Manliness" is just compensating.

I've always been partial to Themis

mainly because Themis has been partial to me

>>5170886
DOOOOOHOOOOOO!
Janus saw what you did there...

Venus

For any number of reasons

>>5170862

Hey, at least I dind't say Fido.

I challenge /tg/ to make the greatest pantheon of gods, from any and all mythologies

>>5170883
It's not my fault there's no mithology that combines both a bitchin hot wolfgirl mother godess and a badass one-eyed macho who came out from an ice giant's corpse.

Mmmh....i might start my own religion! thanks for the enlightment /tg/ !!

BORN ON AN EGG ON A MOUNTAIN TOP

>>5170925

Needs Pan. That motherfucker is awesome.

>>5170959
Check. What else?

>>5170925
Awesome in what respects? A pantheon consisting of just the most badass gods would be interesting, but one-sided.
In any case, Odin, Thor, and Athena are obligatory.

Loki

Loki, because it's his job to be an asshole. Gotta love trickery and chaos.

>>5170959

Loki here, Pan is a fag.

Protectan pharaoh, avengan sun, lovan perfume

>>5170975
Odin doesn't actually do much badass stuff, except for the aforementioned self-mutilation. Like he's god of war, but there's no stories about him actually FIGHTING

Xena

Ouroboros here. Just sitting here being the physical form of power. And an unfortunate Aesop.

>>5171008

It is funny because that is a proper depiction.

So Loki, Bromethious, who else?

>>5171007
>>5171004
Loki Mind

>>5171029

Odin is actually the god of wisdom.

Tyr is the god of war.

>>5171051
The moral is "never go ass to mouth"

>>5171080
Wrong! Tyr is the god of JUSTICE

Lugh prevails!

Furball is nice and all, but me, I'm getting a little hungry, hombre, and a little weavone sounds like it might hit the spot.

(can you guess that I don't know any spanish?)

Odin was actually an extremely complex god, he is associated with war, wisdom, death, magic, shipping, wolves, ravens and hanging.

He was also believed to be responsible for 'the three madnesses' (doesnt translate well) which were: The frenzy of the berzerks, the inspiration of poets & the trance of seers.

>>5171080
The Norse had something like 20 Gods of War.

>>5171204
not exactly.
All their gods were gods of something and war.

>>5171204
Because the Norse were FUCKING BADASS!

Isn't Frigga goddess of wisdom?

>>5171197
Odin is fucking awesome

>>5171216
That's what I mean. Even their mother goddess was a Goddess of War.

I don't even think they got into different types of war, like war for protection, war for conquest, war for murder. I think they all just liked war in general.

Gentleman, I like war.

>>5170568
>>5170554

I only know about Eris because of the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

I wish to be knowing more of her, yes?

The Norse were a warrior society, hence their religion. The blacksmith is also a warrior, so should be his god. The farmer is also a warrior, as should be his god/goddess(Can't remember them all). Plus there is always Ragnarok to think about, so I guess you can justify it any way you go.

Loki's children were awesome.

>>5171216
Odin: god of knowledge poetry and WAR
Thor: god of thunder and WAR
Loki: god of being a dickhead and WAR
Heimdall: god of defending shit being everyone's grandfather and WAR
Tyr: god of law justice having your hand bitten off and WAR
Freyj....

Kali. She's both revered as a mother goddess and yet is a blood-crazed berserker who dances on enemies' corpses, and is actually allowed to be both. She has some depth to her, as well as the high power level you guys seem to be focused on. Also, she's not a damn invincible Mary Sue like pretty much everyone in the Norse pantheon you're quoting; she does lose to Shiva in a dance contest IIRC, for example.

>>5171242
>Wednesday
Well, I guess you would know, Mister Wednesday.

>>5171272
you cannot boogie in skull bras.

>>5171278
Words to live by

>>5171266
Freya: Goddess of love and WAR

>>5171272
>Also, she's not a damn invincible Mary Sue like pretty much everyone in the Norse pantheon you're quoting;
Being the only Gods capable of actually dying is Mary Sue?

>>5171275
>Wednesday
>Wodensday
>Odin's Day

i c wut u did thar

>>5171272
>invincible Mary Sue
>Norse pantheon
What the fuck are you smoking? Have you never heard of Ragnarok? Spoilers: MOST OF THEM DIE.

>>5171278
Speaking from experience there?

>>5171316
Actually, they ALL die. The only people who survive are two humans named Lif and Lifthrashr.

Which, you know, knowing that even if they are immortal they can die just makes them all that much more badass.

>>5171313
It works for Friday too. Frig's Day
Thursday = Thor's Day
And so on.

>>5171343
Monday: Moon day, or Mani's Day
Tuesday: Tyr's Day
Wednesday: Woden's Day
Thursday: Thor's Day
Friday: Frigg's Day
Saturday: Saturn's Day, not Norse
Sunday: Sun Day, or Sol's Day.

Norse gods win the thread.

You are now aware of how fucking awesome it would be if Norse polytheism was the dominant religion in Europe and America instead of christfaggotry.

>>5171335

Nope, only MOST die. Modi and Magni come to mind immediately, but there are more I'm sure.

>>5171397
Hod comes back.

>>5171397
Really? I thought everyone died.

Then again, most of my knowledge comes from a picture book from when I was 12.

I think what everyone is forgetting is that provided the amount of tonails thrown into the ocean isn't engoguh for the giants to build a boat out of we are pretty safe from ragnorok

>>5171316

Well, yeah, but that assures them a Blaze of Glory exit, which is kind of a Mary Sue way to go. The exception and an example of a non Mary Sue god death is Hothr (spelling?) getting killed by a thrown plant. That's pretty weak. Yes, I'm basically just using the /tg/ broad definition of Mary Sue.

Here's a handy guide to Ragnarok video, complete with epic music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INImTH2lda4

Manly tears...

>>5171451

Sauce?

>>5171450
Pretty sure it's the untrimmed nails of the dead.

I know my crazy norse polytheistic mother used to tell me that if I didn't trim my nails regularly, and I met sudden death, mine might be the nails that brought the invasion to midgard.

tl;dr: Trim your nails, wear clean underwear or the world will burn.

>>5171382

We would have televangelists of Odin and Bush would've talked about invading Iraq in nthe name of Tyr.

>>5171459
wasn't that baldr?

>>5171459

Thats Baldr (killed by mistletoe) Hod is the one who was tricked into throwing the mistletoe by Loki.

Re: Mary Sues

Well they are ancient GODS, not pcs in a D&D game.

Wouldnt really be fitting if Thor died of a heart attack, Freyja got hepatitis and Odin ended up in a retirement home now would it?

>>5171511
yeah. hod, the blind god, was tricked into throwing the mistletoe at baldr by loki who, by the way, also prevented baldr's resurrection.

>>5171486
Yes you're right. i remembered incorrectly

>>5171489

That would be epic.

Less 'establish a stable democracy in the middle east' and more 'RAPE AND PILLAGE YOU WHORESONS!'

>>5171511
>>5171516

Fuck, you're right. It's been too long since I took the class. Well, point stands.

But you, >>5171516
make a good point too.

>>5171489

Speaking of getting your hand bitten off...I vote for Typhon! MOTHER OF ALL MONSTERS!

>>5171516
Balder didn't do much anyway. He just looked pretty.

>>5171551
No, Typhon had a dick. Probably lots of them. He was the FATHER of all monsters.

Echidna was the mother of all monsters.

>>5171486
it is a much better reason than whatever other reasons we were told as children.

Nordic Mythology:

THOR

hes just cool

>>5171556

Hey, looking pretty is an important job.

>>5171534

Then america wouldnt be a democracy.

Wouldnt exist in the first place.

>>5171556
The phrase "god of phallic fertility" comes to mind. oddly enough the norse had a lot of those as well

>>5171382
>>5171489

Eh...

While I'm not sure things would be better, if Norse themed paganism had become the dominant religion in Europe, things would definitely be very different today.

Christianity has played a big role in politics and society, and switching it out for something else could have potentially wide reaching effects. For example, if norse paganism were the dominant religion in Europe and Islam still came around in the middle east, it's possible that today the Ottoman Empire would be invading America instead of the US invading Iraq.

ALL HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIANISM!

>>5171575

Jormungandr here,

Thor sucks lol.

God-Emperor of Mankind

p.s. Fuck you >>5171238

>>5171605
try saying that when you don't have some pussy giant to hide behind

>>5171583

Perhaps no America but there sure as shit would be a Vinland.

>>5171605

NAY, THOU!

The kami

I hate all you Eris-worshipping discordian motherfuckers. Fuck you. If I ever meet one of you in real life I will kick you in the dick.

>>5171486
Your mom is awesome, in a crazy way.

this would happen.

>>5171681

That's a stupid chart, and you should feel bad for sharing it with us.

>>5171681

Yup, that there's a real scientifical graph. Aristotle would be proud.

>>5171700
Especially considering that most of the Roman chunk was the Holy Roman Empire.

>>5171715
No

Hel is the best!

>>5171681

The charts only virtue is that it suggests space vikings, which is pretty much pure win.

It's a tough one for me, but I think I'm going to say Tyr is my favorite.

>>5171751
Hel is a skeleton from the waist down, so oral only.

>>5171751

You cover yourself up this instant young lady!

Yeah... your little furry goddesses and heavy metal norse gods are cool and hardcore I guess... if you're into that kind of thing.

"Xipe Totec is represented wearing a flayed human skin, usually with the flayed skin of the hands falling loose from the wrists. ... It is likely that sculptures of Xipe Totec were ritually dressed in the flayed skin of sacrificial victims.

Xipe Totec emerging from the rotting, flayed skin after twenty days symbolised rebirth and the renewal of the seasons, the casting off of the old and the growth of new vegetation.[18] The living god lay concealed underneath the superficial veneer of death, ready to burst forth like a germinating seed.[19] The deity also had a malevolent side and Xipe Totec was said to afflict mortals with rashes, abscesses and skin and eye infections.[20]"

>>5171828

so

he's the god of springtime and pinkeye

:awesome:

Well, if norse religion was the main in europe then then the rest of the world would have been completely fucked by the time europe started rediscovering technology. Seeing as to how they'd probably say anyone who isn't of European decent is an elf or something and commence to killing, looting, and raping them almost ritualisticly rather than trying to use them as laborers.

>>5171770

Or time to get creative.

>>5171828
They try too hard.

>>5171840
The GRIMDARK god of springtime and pinkeye.

>>5171828
>>5171840

He was the god of corn and chocolate too. Mayans wasted a lot of potential on him.

>>5171844
Graft flesh to her?(i.e. Frankenstein)

>Xipe Totec emerging from the rotting, flayed skin after twenty days symbolised rebirth and the renewal of the seasons, the casting off of the old and the growth of new vegetation.[18] The living god lay concealed underneath the superficial veneer of death, ready to burst forth like a germinating seed.[19] The deity also had a malevolent side

>The deity also had a malevolent side

Lurking in flayed skins wasnt his malevolent side?!

>>5171828
"The deity also had a malevolent side"

ALSO? Thank God we wiped those Assholetecs out.

>>5171869

springtime

pinkeye

HERSHEY CORNBREAD

I APPROVE

>>5171906
No, he was only making a fashion statement there.

>>5171906

Going around in skins was what warriors did at the time. Generally, the Aztecs considered it shameful to die on the battlefield, so they submitted when defeated. At that point they would either be sold into slavery (which ironically was a lot less brutal than what we associate with the term; slave mistreatment was a punishable crime) or sacrificed at the temple. Some argue that a death as a sacrifice was preferable to the warrior.

An interesting part of the Aztec pantheon is that all the gods are in a constant state of horrific torture because their blood is what keeps the universe going, so the Aztecs showed their thanks by cutting themselves. Kind of like how the flagellants whipped themselves during the middle ages to show that they were good christians. As a result, the Aztecs had something of a deep religious fascination with blood.

"Junior, did you cut yourself before bed last night?"
"Sorry mom, I forgot."
"You know what they say Junior, if you don't hurt yourself a little as thanks to the gods, they'll stop torturing themselves and the universe will end."

Here's another fun fact: The most famous Aztec god, Quetzalcoatl, didn't want human sacrifices. The flying serpent demanded butterflies be killed at his altar. Some evidence suggests that the priests even debated whether the gods even still wanted human sacrifices, or whether just a bit of blood would be okay.

>>5171990

Priest A: "You know, instead of cutting his innards out and flaying his skin, maybe we should just cut his hands and legs off..."

Priest B: "You weak-kneed, bleeding-heart, PUSSY! Get back to your mama!"

>>5171906
>>5171908
>>5171867
>>5171990

That's why they're my favorites. This guy makes Khorne look reasonable, and he's the god of fucking jewelry and springtime.

>>5170554
>>5170554

>mythological
>Eris

FUCK YOU.

>>5171990
KILL THE BUTTERFLIES!

Hyperion.

>>5172134
In their defense, Eris isn't just from Discordianism.

She's the Greek Goddess of Strife.

slaanesh and his sexy ass

>>5172107 bleeding-heart
You know, that term would probably come with positive connotations in Aztec religious circles...

>>5172280
>>5170554
And the whole story of the Apple was actually part of Greek religion, up until the part about the hotdogs. Discordianism is great like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28mythology%29

Pelor. 3.X version.

As He Shines Above, So Do I Shine Below.

>>5170813
>>5170710
>>5172134
Why are people bitching about deities being called mythological, aside from the redundancy aspect?

>>5172329 He Who Shines Below
In my next campaign Pelor will be recast as the Lawful Good god of the Blinding Light of Magma.

Hail to the king, baby.

Fharlanghn, fuck yeahr. God of hitch-hiker heroes everywhere.

I'm offended.

Antaeus

Lucifer. He rebelled against his Father for doing such a shitty ass job of doing things. However got kicked in the nuts and was sent to teach lessons of humility.

>>5172384

You sir, are awesome.

>>5172329
Fuck Pelor. You want a real god of war and the sun? Worship Huitzilopochtli. Men who die in battle and women who die in childbirth are the only ones brave enough to serve him after death. And he's so bright that, even if you're dead, looking at him is blinding if you're not brave enough. Sometimes he lets the souls of the brave return to earth in the form of butterflies or hummingbirds, that's how nice a guy he is.
Oh yeah, one more thing. He eats nothing except human hearts. You need to sacrifice a heart to him every day so he stays strong enough to keep fighting off the forces of darkness.

>>5172280

I am a pantheistic animist who reveres the greco-roman gods.

>>5172527
So basically he isn't blinding to those who look at him intentionally?

>>5172490
Yeah, I prefer to worship deities that didn't fail.

>>5172541
Are you a bad enough dude to look at the sun directly? In full, defying bravado?

>>5172584
The Sun? No Problem. Huitzilopochtli, nope. I've been afraid of that thing ever since I heard about him. The whole eating hearts thing, freaked me the fuck out.

Hyperion>Pelor.

Hyperion OWNS Pelor, that whinging little prick.

>>5172541
The braver you are, the better you can see him.

>>5170554
Glory to Melandru. Praised be her name! I give thanks to her, for it is by her grace I live, and by her mercy I hunt. And when I fall, she shall escort me to the Mists, where I shall take my place with the heroes of the realms for eternity!

>>5170624

Excuse me, whom do you presume yourself to be?

Cernunnos, bitches, and his gospel according to Faith and the Muse. I rather like the quiet types.

"Identified with the night sky, the moon, and the stars, and associated with the forces of evil and destruction." The Aztec/Maya had some of the creepiest (not to mention fearsome) gods I've ever seen. What's not there to like?

Menoth

>>5170563
>>5170745
Now I want to have a pic of tentacle raep with her.

No mention of Coatlicue?

>>5170670
It's a little something called "delegation," bitch,

My favorite god is anime

Susano, shinto god of storms and natural disasters.

In a pantheon filled with what we would generally consider proper royal court behavior, Susano was an uncouth asshole who occasionally aids mortals just to piss the others off.

You can't kill the Messiah.

>>5170554
Boring slag for "LOL! Discordianism"-fags.

They cry when I hit them.
So much for intellectuals.

>>5174059
Tezcatlipoca was always my favourite aztec god

total goth badass and the name rolls of the tongue

Blood and souls for my Lady.

I worship Goatse.

>>5175388
All glory to Kane! We must spread his gospel for the technology of peace - peace through power!

>>5175427
George Stobbart owned his ass.

>Lif and Lifthrashr
"Ummm.....could I maybe share the world with someone whose name isn't my name plus "Thrasher"? No? Well, worth a shot..."

>>5175471
It's Life and Hungry for Life.

So she's hungry.

For your cock. Gotta repopulate the planet somehow.

>>5175479
Lif is the female one.

>>5175508
Then you're Lifthrasir. You're hungry.

For her vagina. Gotta repopulate the world somehow.

So. What if, say, Loki and Set had a child?

It's not like Loki ain't man enough to do it or anything.

>>5175563
In fact, based on myth, it's not like Loki isn't woman enough to do it either.

Well, mare enough, anyway.

>>5175581
Quite so, Chap.

>>5175563

Loki/Seth slash? fund it

not technally a god, but Enoch. the only christian human to be graced with immortality.

>>5175630
Wandering jew doesn't count?

>>5175652

Or Cain?

I'm imagining Loki talking Seth into hot sex by promising him it's not gay.

Not that the egyptian gods weren't gay, because they were. Seth wanted to rape Horus, after all.

Apollo. Wine, sun, war, music. Kickass has a name, and it ain't no barbarian scum Norse.

>>5175789

Mars was here. Apollo can go suck a dick.

>>5175704

An obsession with Entropy- I like it.

Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleet:
THOR up in this MotherFucker!

>>5175815

sad thing is he probably would. still like him though

ANUBIS!

>>5175823
You died because your race sealed your spiral power and refused to change until it was too late.

>>5171451
HOLY SHIT WHAT THE HELL IS THIS FROM

>>5175993
A short comic about god

Shamash and Prometheus. Nice guys in pantheons filled with assholes.

Surtr was here. The Aesir are pussies.

You gonna get BEFRIENDED

>>5176018

Series? Issue number?

You know, the christian/jewish/islamic god gets a lot of shit, but have you read what his Old Testament prophets did?

Elijah, for example, didn't die. God just got tired of waiting around for him. I feel the need to point out that Elijah was so sure of his religion that his fucking name means "Yahweh is my God." That's like if you met a viking only to find that his priest given name was "I clack knuckles with Thor." There's no fucking way in hell you'd mess with him. Anyways, after a long life of being fucking rad, God decides he wants Elijah to come up to heaven to chill with him. So Elijah just kinda shrugs, parts the Jordan river because it was in his way (and none of that over dramatic shit like Moses did, Elijah just taps it with his staff and glares at it and the water parts itself out of fear), and then a flying, flaming chariot comes and picks him up. And that flying, flaming chariot was THE SUN.

THAT'S RIGHT. ELIJAH DIDN'T DIE, HE JUST RODE THE GODDAMN SUN AWAY.

>>5171473
Y'know... Ragnarök doesn't sound all that bad in the end. I'd shoot for a heroic death before it, just to avoid that winter and just get to the big fight in the end and then bugger off to one of the good afterlives.

>Ragnarok

Nobody's mentioned NATLA yet?

>>5176465

That's just how he LEFT, though. Elijah was super rad. Get this - the king of Isreal falls like twenty stories and hurts his leg, because back then they were all Superjews or some shit. But, instead of being a good hebrew and asking his own priests, he asks some heretic priests in another country. Well, Elijah gets a hold of this, and personally kicks the messengers' asses and tells them to go back to the king with HIS response, which goes something along the lines of "Are you some motherfucking heretic, pussy ass piece of shit?"

The king is pissed and tells his guards to grab Elijah and bring him back. Bad idea! The three guards approch Elijah, and remember, they're superjews, so what does god's bringer of awesome does? He just casually waves at them, causing flames to descend from the heavens, destroying two of the soldiers. He doesn't just kill them, motherfucker DESTROYS them. The third guard, no doubt shitting himself, begs for mercy, and Elijah decides to go with him. Not that he's thrown in prison - oh no - he goes so he can walk up to the king and PERSONALLY call him a motherfucker.

>>5176465
>>5176532

I now picture all of gods prophets as previous lives of Samuel L Jackson

Humanity was already dead before the fishes crawled out of the water.

>>5176555
Loki was here, Nyarlathotep is a loser.

Mulcarn

Enjoy your Ice when I ascend mortals

Heard ya Like the WANGS

Shub-Niggurath. The Black Goat of The Forest With a Thousand Young, the ever-spawning, ever-devouring, mother of ALL living things.

If I ever went completely bumfuck crazy, "she's" most likely the thing I'd worship.

I don't know, man. Nyarlathotep has some nice tits.

>>5176702

That's not Nyarlathotep... That's not Nyarlathotep AT ALL!

>>5176749
According to Japan, it is!

>>5176749
It's a well known fact that Nyarlathotep is a little brown girl.

>>5176749
How do YOU know?

Nyarlathotep takes many forms.

>>5176749
It is.

And fuck yes Demonbane! More loli Necronomicon plox.

>>5176749
Nyarlathotep greatly enjoys the games of deception he weaves around mortal beings.

He's not above taking pleasing forms to further his schemes.

>>5176809

Sauce on dis? Moar?

>>5176887
It's Dmeonbane, an Eroge based on Lovecraft. This is Al Azif, the necrololicon.

>>5176948

POST ALL. NAO

>>5176948
and the anime is pretty hillarious.

oh west you old fool.

>>5176948
Doesn't the Demonbane mecha have a gun made out of the universe that shoots the universe at itself?

Bump!

>>5177015
Pretty much, yeah.

>>5176971
yup. west sure is hillarious.

Sophia

Hey all. Great thread. I just thought I'd throw in a few things about the Norse deities.

Odin was technically the god of war, knowledge, power, wisdom, hang, trade, poetry, war and magic. Fucker got around. In regards to his battle prowess, there are a few accounts, mostly anecdotes, really. In some stories, warlords who had his favor would be given special formations or tactics by the Allfather, and in some cases even "battle charms". Odin's battle charms are really nasty. They could strike entire armies blind, deaf, or dumb, or make all of their weapons blunt.

In the epic poem "Havamal" there is a ritualistic-sounding section listing the main spells of Odin. These include spells that allow him to catch arrows and spears in flight, the aforementioned weapon-blunting charm, a spell that makes the recipient pass through battle unscathed, a spell to reflect all harmful spells back on the caster, a spell that controls storms, and (of course) a spell that will make any woman want to bone you, and then another spell that will make her leave you the fuck alone when you get bored with her.

>>5177281

In terms of personal combat there are a few story notes here and there. Odin is immune to fire. Odin can change your shape against your will. Odin's spear, Gungir, acts like a homing missile; if he throws it, it never ever misses. Odin can fire ten arrows from his bow at once. Imagine that, for a moment. Ten arrows with every shot.

You get the idea. Also, in regards to Loki. Technically, he wasn't a god at all. He wasn't from Aesir or Vanir stock; he was part giant. In Nordic society he had no temples or priests or holidays. Nobody worshiped him. Basically, he was just this guy the Gods kept around because he was sometimes useful. Of course, he sometimes royally fucked them over, but the tradeoff was usually worth it. It's also repeated mentioned that Loki and Odin were "blood brothers" which is a Old Norse way of saying they had a bromance. They had very similar outlooks on life, it would seem.

Odin was a ridiculously powerful deity, but he was very mercurial. He might give you battle spells one day, then personally strike you blind the next. He did pretty much everything for shits and giggles. The hanging and the blinding episode is often described as a sacrifice of Odin to Odin. It was all about getting more and more power. Everything he did was to further his own ends. To the Old Norse the phrase "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" was completely unknown.

>>5171450

I come from Gloucester MA, and over 10,000 men have been lost at sea from this little city over the past 375 years or so. that is just one town, never mind everyone else in the whole world for the past 10000 years who were lost at sea. I say the Giants might have a chance at that boat thing.

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>>5177286
>>5177281
So...Odin is basically Tzeentch with some Khorne/Slaanesh elements?

>>5170554
Jesus.

>>5177322

I've honestly never really gotten into Warhammer, so I couldn't comment.

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>>5175298
According to mesoamerican lore she is technically a 'good' deity. Just to give you an idea O_o. Her own daughter Coyolxauqui tried to kill her while pregnant with her half-sibling who turned out to be the sun god, Huitzilopochtli. He was so badass that he killed his sister AND 400 brothers immediately after being born.

Some scholars argue that Loki may have been worshiped as a god of the hearth and fire. Now, I cannot vouch for the validity of this; I'm repeating what I've read.

More Demonbane please

Some scholars argue that Loki may have convinced Thor to crossdress.

Susa-no-O here, god of summer, storms and the sea, and a general mischief maker. Likes to hang out with Thor and Loki, no doubt.