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:

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

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  2. 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...

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