Animae
Primeval Spirits
Spirits worshiped so long by man and his relatives they have crossed the threshold into gods.
- Great Serpent: The first god of modern man. The first resurrecting god. Often seen as a cosmic snake, encircling the world or as the milky way, he also guards the great tree.
The Archetypes
Sometimes it seems that man himself creates gods. Either elevating himself to that status or taking abstract ideas and making them encompassing ideals.
- Psychopomp: He who crosses over between worlds. Often a Shaman and a guide for he dead
- War:
- Ares: God of savage war and atrocities
- Trickster: The archtype of a trickster: Coyote, Loki, clowns.
- Loki: The contriver of all fraud
Early Arrivals
The first true gods of modern man. Perhaps they were spirits of man or outsiders like the Celestial Invaders, either way they permeate human beliefs.
- Great Mother: The female fertility figure, often in many guises at once. so powerful she has aspects that are themselves the equals of the other gods.
- Isis: The protecting mother of all
- Warrior Maiden: An aspect of the GREAT MOTHER as a young virginal war goddess. Often a patron of crafts.
- Athena: The wise virgin warrior goddess.
- Fertile Wife: An aspect of the GREAT MOTHER. Goddess of fertility and childbirth but not necessarily her own children
- Hera: The matron queen of the gods
- Animal Mistress: An aspect of the GREAT MOTHER as the master of animals and magic.
- Diana: Goddess of the wild and magic.
- Son-Consort: Son and Consort of the Great Mother. She mothers him, marries him, and has his children as he dies allowing his son to take his place.
- Mars: God of War and Patron of the Roman Empire
- Poseidon: Lord of the Sea
- Osiris: The Lord and Judge of the Underworld
The Egyptians
The gods of Egypt started small, as the tutelary deity of a single village. As those villages grew, and became more influential their gods did too, rising an falling with the influence of thier home town. Few made it to national status, even fewer stood against the waves of invaders.
- SUN of HELIOPOLIS: The local sun god of the city of Heliopolis the first great capitol of united Egypt.
- Ra: The Aged Sun overlooking all
Deiwos
Celestial Invaders
At the dawn of civilization a group of outsiders arrived and made themselves known as gods. The seem to have appeared to two distinct groups the Proto-Indo-Europeans of the Steppe and the Proto-Semitics of Arabia. These two people interpreted the gods in different but somewhat similar manners, and then spread into the civilized world where the Great Mother and her Son-Consort ruled. This expansion was not necessarily a hostile invasion. The Celestial Invaders syncreted with, married, fought with and destroyed the existing gods.
Proto-Indo-European Invaders (PIE)
The gods as they appeared to the people of the Northern steppe. The brought with them the World Tree which was soon guarded by the Great Serpent and quickly followed by the slaying of Serpent. They overcame the Sacred Bull of the previous gods. With Welnos came a monsterous pet seen as the Wolf of the underworld. For some reason the wife of the Shining Father seems not to have come to these people.
- Dyeus Pater: Shining Father, The patriarchal king of the group and Lord of the daytime sky.
- Zeus: The king of the gods, Lord of the sky and thunder
- Odin Asagrim: Lord of the Aesir
- Dhghom Mater: The broad earth and mother of plenty.
- Persephone: The cold wife of Hades.
- Demeter: Goddess of grain and the cycle of life and death
- Perkwunos: The Oak, and the Thunderer, brother of DYEUS PATER. Defender of the people.
- Thor: Red haired and bearded god of thunder
- Ausos/Wenos: Dawn/Lust. Sister to DYEUS PATER, or his eldest daughter. Foster mother of his children. Known for her frequent change of lovers.
- Aphrodite: Goddess of sexual love and pleasure
- Sawel: The Sun. The gender undefined twin of MENOT, child of DYEUS PATER.
- Menot: The Moon. The gender undefined twin of SAWEL, child of DYEUS PATER.
- Neptonos: Nephew or grandson of DYEUS PATER. He arrived later than the rest of the family.
- Welnos: God of the Earth, waters and the underworld.
- Hades: Grim lord of the underworld.
- Celestial Pet: The pet of the Celestial Invaders
Proto-Semitic Invaders (PS)
As to the people of the Steppe the family came to the shepherds of the deserts of Arabia. Here however El became more powerful over time and thtablished himself above the othersxi driving them out.
- Ilu: The supreme god, unlike the PIE Shining Father, ILU did not associate himself with the sky but law and custom and considered himself transcendent. He made himself a god of certain tribes to the exclusion of even his own family.
- Yahweh: The Hebrew God
- Jehovah: The Father in the Christian Trinity
- Allah: The Islamic God
- Jesus: The Son in the Christian Trinity
- Atiratu: Sister and wife of ILU. Keeper of wisdom. Often syncreted with the Great Mother.
- Mary: The mother of Jesus
- Haddu: Thunderer. aka. Baal (Lord). With no great trees in the desert he became associated with mountains instead.
- Baal: A demon who trades power for sacrifices.
- Attartu: Goddess of Love, Fertility and War.
- Venus: A high class goddess of love
- Shamshu: The sun. Child of ILU and ATIRATU
- Apollo: God of Medicine, Light, Truth
- Warihu: The Moon. Son of ILU and ATIRATU
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