July 25, 2006

Hey, somebody believed it...

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Luckily we've got a whole bunch of literary entertainment at our disposal.

Here in the US, the most widely-known mths are pretty much all Greek and - to a lesser extent - Roman. The gods of the two pantheons are often confused, somewhat rightfully as the two pantheons are quite similar.
  • MythMan.com offers nice reference help with the Greek gods
  • MythWeb.com offers more of the same, nicely presented
  • Winged Sandals doesn't have as much info but is a lot more fun to play around on
  • Mythography does a nice job presenting the Roman pantheon
Honestly, though, I enjoy the Norse myths a whole lot more than I do the Greek or Roman.There are, of course, as many other gods and pantheons as there have been societies in the past. Thankfully, there are sites that are pan-pantheonic:
  • GodChecker.com offers the most comprehensive information on the web
  • Flickr has a nice set of Lego gods and goddesses
  • Thorshof offers you some help in "Choosing A Heathen Diety"
Don't foget to make the appropriate sacrifices and to check out the more modern gods from Neil Gaiman's American Gods.

3 comments:

calencoriel said...

Norse mythology just makes me think of bad jokes...

PHSChemGuy said...

You're thor?

calencoriel said...

hee hee hee...that always cracks me up...

oh, and in looking at Norse gods-b/c I want to know what other names the drives at work could possibly be called, did you see that there is a wolf god named "Fenrir"? That's the same name as the notorious werewolf in the HP books, Fenrir Grayback...sorry, but I just love how Rowling comes up with the names for her characters...about as much as I love how Jay Hosler names his bees in Clan Apis...