Who is your Favorite Greek God?

Come on, you know you love them! This is the Best dam group of gods that ever were imagined! (sorry, blasphemy not intended)



their are 368 Greek deities. A list can be found at this link (too much for this post):http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?_gods-list

what a guy! :beer:

good call!

I've got some wine right now! no sex though. damn.

:D

Well, that's the history of my name, anyway. ;-)

You can't go wrong with Dionysus.

See my signature quote for further explanation. ;)

They were both some badass women.

Defending warrior, inventor, champion of scholars and the civic virtues, patron of Odysseus :thumbsup:

Went with the owl-queen.

:thumbsup:

http://www.areopagus.net

I created it over 2 years ago! :bounce:

ETA: Ares is my favorite. I LOATHE that bitch Athen(a)(e); she reminds me of mAnn Coulter. :P
http://www.areopagus.net/gods.htm#athena

Greek Gods list...

Cool!

for bringing attention to Greek mythology....I love it, and you brought attention to it! :-) and my website, in some sense

I'm going to look at your site.

Did you ever see that Star Trek episode with that cry baby Apollo? (Boo hoo no one loves or worships me anymore.) Yeah, we realized that it's the Earth that turns, not you in your sun chariot.

Good premise (Greek gods are actually aliens that the Hellenes mistook for deities) but my god, couldn't they have selected a better looking Apollo? He was supposed to be HANDSOME! :o ;)

But only as depicted by the late Kevin Smith, in the Herc & Xena 'Verse.

www.kevinsmithtrust.com/biography3.htm

Otherwise, I'm torn between Athena & Dionysys (ouch, sounds painful!)

good guy, ugly guy who got the girl. She cheats on him, he gets even, in a non-violent way

Go Hephaestus!

So I will go with him...
however, I must admit ...
NORSE GODS were way cool...give me THOR.. ANYDAY OF THE WEEK.



Someday I am going to have to read up on SHINTO gods..sounds interesting.

sorry, I thought you said geek god

Because he was handicapable in his bad-assedness. You don't mess with fire gods. See what happened to pompeii when they parked in his handicapped spot?

They got smote, that's what they got.

metal net to trap his wife and ares thing was awesome

He ain't dead, he ain't sleeping, he's cracking his knuckles, drunk and bitching to Artemis who seethes with cold rage and contemplates the revenge of the Gods.

Does she count?

have to go with Gaea, though, just because she's the Mother Earth spirit. Wine-god who spares the life of theives is pretty cool, but... sorry! The Earth Goddess comes first!

Dionysis... very queer and he drives women wild. The god of excess.

Aphrodite - Love, sex, and beauty

The Great God Pan - sex and the natural world.

I worship these three.... Although I'm still stuck on my Aztec god thang.

Khash.

The waxing moon of the triple moon goddess, according to Graves. Although I think Pan and Silenus are probably the most interesting.

At the beginning of the Christian era:

As they approach the coast, the wind suddenly drops, the air thickens, the vessel is becalmed, and an odd stillness descends. All day the sailors wait, and then, toward evening, a great thundering voice rings out: "The Great God Pan is dead!" Suddenly, from all the hills and streams, from the little hidden valleys, from temples and sacred groves, from mountain pastures and ferny cliffs, there rises a cry of lament, a vast outpouring of wailing and weeping and shrieking that echoes across the hills and valleys and spreads all across the land. Pan is dead.

I did. She's one of the most visible pagan goddesses even today.

gotta like those trickster gods. Coyote would be my pick overall of god myths.

Although Dionysus is pretty cool too. :)

I belive

all those greek names can confuse me at times!
i was thinking about the guy who flew too close to the sun, Icarus

Demigod is proper terminology. His brothers were also. And Hercules is another demigod. So are many others in both Greek and Roman mythology.

Prometheus was a son of Iapetus by Clymene (one of the Oceanids). He was a brother of Atlas, Menoetius, and Epimetheus. He surpassed all in cunning and deceit. He held no awe for the gods, and he ridiculed Zeus, though he fought alongside the gods against the other Titans. Prometheus was the creator of man. When he and Epimetheus set out to make creatures to populate the earth under the orders of Zeus, Epimetheus went with quantity and made many creatures, endowing them with many gifts that were allotted to the brother for that purpose (fur, claws, wings, and fins were some of these gifts). While his brother was making creatures, Prometheus was carefully crafting a creature after the shape of the gods. It was a man

Epimetheus, Atlas and Prometheus were sons of the Titans. If parents had been equal Titans with the parents of Zeus, for example, they would have also been in higher position of power. However, Zeus ended up as the highest God, and because nepotism really DID count in the days as well, he gave his siblings the highest jobs. Cousins didn't really get as much in the outcome.

Trivia: For giving fire to humans, Prometheus was punished by Zeus by getting strapped to the side of a mountain, where an eagle would eat his liver every day, which would grow back at night. Eventually, many years later, Hercules rescued him.

:rofl:

Not that that deterred the Greeks....

:7

Adam + Eve made Cain and Abel.

Cain goes off and kills Abel, naughty naughty...

At this point in the Bible, there's no human civilization.

Later on, human civilization has developed.

So how'd it happen? No doubt Eve got tired of Adam's small apple and thought Cain was all manly and butch and all for killing the world's first homosexual... :crazy:

Now THAT is incest. Double incest!

particularly since reading Jitterbug Perfume.

I think he used them to smoke with too!

or else I might get in trouble...

:)

:toast:

was far more than a messenger in myth, Hermes teaches lessons, unlike most other deities that appear caught up in enforcing rules, screwing humans or insisting on worship.

and then had a goatchild.

Because there's part of me that wants to smash his skull in and part of me that's all like, "nooo, violence is wrong! peace! be the better person! PEAAAAAAACE!!!"

And the vengeful me goes, "I'D KILL THE BASTARD IF I HAD THE CHANCE!"
And the John-Lennon inspired me goes, "No, if you had the chance you would show mercy to him."
And then the V-for-vendetta inspired me thinks, "MERCY? Hmmm.... what an obscure and quaint thing that is....NOW DIE, FUHRER!"

he's a god Just ask him, if you don't believe me. The only way to kill it, is to first trick it into putting on it's cheerleader outfit. Tell the demon you want to have sex with it, that always works for Cheney. After it puts on the cheerleader skirt shove a large silver cross up it sideways. That should do the trick but remember wear ear-protection because this lesser demon will lie like a Nazi at Nuremberg.

:rofl:

The goddess of the Moon, and the idol of free women everywhere. (AKA Artemis)

Diana, is of course, her Roman name; Artemis is her Greek name. The Romans pretty much kept the same gods as the Greeks, with few exceptions. The only thing they did for the most part was change their names. Thus, Jupiter is Zeus; Mercury is Hermes; Venus is Aphrodite; etc. Yes, the planets were named for each of the Roman counterparts of the gods.

she's hot!

ERIS is held in the highest esteem by Discordians, Pranksters,
and those who like to set the cat amongst the pigeons.

Apollo,

and Dionysos

No one who just met me on the street would suspect, but my husband could have picked these two as my favorites without ever asking me...

the son of Aphodite?

The Goddess of Chaos, Dischord, Confusion and International relations.







"One day Mal-2 consulted his Pineal Gland and asked Eris if She really created all of those terrible things. She told him that She had always liked the Old Greeks, but that they cannot be trusted with historic matters. "They were," She added, "victims of indigestion, you know." --- Principia Discordia

and her winged shoes!

the greek god of walk

so i can hang it in my shrine??

gotta love those sox!

:) I was always down with that. They named me that because I always cut so much weight in wrestling I could hardly ever eat or drink anything. :)

Priapus is the protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. People would put statues of Priapus in their fields to ensure successful crops; his statue scared away crows and his erect penis scared away thieves. (Today, people would leave the crops and steal the statues.)

eros -- dionysus -- aphrodite -- demeter --

but hephaestus is a very close second, cause he has aphrodite...:) But heph, if memory serves is blind...so, God of War for me please...:)








"You wrote that the world doesn't need a savior, but everyday I hear them crying for one"-Superman Returns.....

Valia Kakouti :loveya:

Zeus and Hera??

are they both too disgusting to vote for?

But I like Poseidon, Apollo, Zeus, Hades and Aphrodite as well. I'm real big on the Greek myths, so much more fun than the stupid "one god" theory.

he's greek and he thinks he is a god.

Many of my good-intentioned myth-loving souls are basing their opinions on "Xena" (UGH) and "Hercules"--which is actually "Heracles."

And it saddens me that votes for Ares are based on the Xena crap: http://www.areopagus.net/gods.htm#ares

he always gets left out.

I forgot there might be some Goths on the board!

And I'm not even a goth!

What can I say...I have a dark streak..:shrug:

I also like Hella (Norse mythology) and vampires...and NO, I'm NOT a goth! I barely even own any black clothing. (one shirt, one T-shirt, that's IT...and the shirt is a button-down thing that is in no way goth)

:D

I think so...

She was the Goddess of the Underworld.

a stoner Jesus? Jesus as a lush? a Jesus that did not try to convert?

It would be soo cool to worship Dionysus.. but what would all the baptists do??

The guy who played him was so hot. Too bad he died shortly after the series ended.

:)

Tawret (Taueret, Taurt, Apet, Opet; Greek Thoueris, Thoeris, Toeris)
"The Great One." Egyptian hippopotamus goddess and protective deity of childbirth, also protectress of rebirth into the afterlife. She was depicted with the head of a hippopotamus, the legs and arms of a lion, the tail of a crocodile, human breasts, and a swollen belly. This appearance was meant to frighten off any spirits that might be harmful to the child. She was often depicted holding the Sa, amulet symbolizing protection. As a protective deity of childbirth, she was often depicted in the company of the dwarf god Bes, who ad a similar function. Taweret was the most popular among ordinary Egyptians as a protectress. Pregnant women commonly wore amulets bearing the goddess' image.

And Dionysus is not a Greek God!!!

She rules! :D

is there another?












ha

that that is a greek god!

but dont tell him that

:blush:

Thank you. :)

and i know its not the first time youve heard that

when i saw the thread title i couldnt resist......

lol

I have to admit I was going to answer this thread, "Me!!". :D

it would have been cooler to have your response but again
when i saw the thread title (and no one had beaten me to the punch) i thought that the setup was too good to pass up


i owe you one

It's good seeing you. It's been a long while.

thank you

and you know its always good to see you
been too long between takes but then i dont get to the lounge very often
just my luck i got to see you this evening

hope all is beautiful in your world (and it sounds like it is)

Long live Jambi!!

Athen(a)(e) is a farce.

Period.

ETA: She claims to be so "virginal" yet wants to be declared "the fairest"? Yeah, right. :eyes:

from the head of your father!