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ok, under construction,
this is where we can put any snippets of information we come accross, post interesting images we find for otheres, and basically discuss trims. (we'll warn those as get freaked out by that kind of talk before it happens, promise!) for the plan (which was a really good one Serenity) of going to D*C dressed as various members of the greek pantheon.
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ok, in this one, i'll keep an uptodate as possible record of all thie different gods and goddesses we can find/think of and who has snaffled them (not that we can't have duplicates, but the owners of the Hyatt wont be too happy at having the lobby destroyed by thunderbolts)
Ok, so Far
Athena - Goddess of War and Wisdom -
Hades - God of the underworld - Jadehand?
Artemis - Moon Goddess of the Hunt - Serenity
Apollo - Sun God, patron of Artists - Ath
Zeus - King of the Gods, (Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening!) -
Hera - Queen of the Gods, protector of women - Seryn
Hermes - Messenger god, patron of travellers and theives wore winged sandals and helmet and carried staff - reserved for Cozen
Hestia - Goddes of hearth and home (most widely worshipped, and most level headed goddess!) - VerseExplorer
Hebe - Goddess of Youth
Aphrodite - goddess of love and sexuality (mostly naked in every pic i've seen!) - Hells Kitten
Eros - god of love, had those arrows that made people fall in love (man did that ever backfire)
Eris - goddess of spite and mischeif -
Demeter - goddess of crops and grain -
Persephone - Goddess of Spring and (unwilling) Queen of the Underworld - Magdalena
Hephaestus (however its spelt) - crippled god of fire and patron of craftsmen, married to Aphrodite (the poor sap) - Tristan
Ares - bad tempered and violent God of War, is knocking sandals with Aphrodite (who isn't?) - Citizen
Morpheus - God of Dreams (apparently the ultra realistic one where you find yourself naked at an office party? check the link below!) - LightmeDark
Phobetor - God of Nightmares (Morpheus's brother) -
Phantasos - God of Dreams "Particularly the surreal ones where you're flying over a lake of custard and seventeen giraffes blow raspberries at you." (i like that guy, he's funny) - Simonwho
ok, now i'm just going to start copying them whole 'cause that guys much funnier than me)
HYPNOS: HYPNOS is the God of Sleep, which he induces with purest opium smoked through a horn. Obviously the God of Hyppies. - RiverIsMyGoddess
Hecate - up until now she was just a name i used to scare away jehovas witnesses. Ok "Goddess of Hidden Wisdom, Change and Darkness" (Queen of Witches) - Mai? or LittleAlbatross
Keep letting me know guys, and i'll add to these little profiles as and when i can.
OK, now, I want to see piccies!
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Here's a complete list of all Greek Gods for anyone who wants a bit more variety!
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?_gods-list
And if someday on some little piss-ant moon/My hand is a little too slow, or my aim a little bit off/At least I’ll go down fighting, not lying abed surrounded by quacks - "Sir Warrick" by Geezer
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you're an absolute star, thank you sweetie!
Thats a brilliant list, cheers.
But it does make me wonder, are we limiting this to the actual deities? and what about the humans that were made into gods? (Heracles?)
Or do we just throw limits to the wind and let folk go as whoever they want? (that gets my vote)
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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HERA: Mrs ZEUS. Supreme Greek Goddess and the Queen of Olympus.
She's also a Goddess of Marriage and Birth, which is somewhat ironic considering that her notoriously unfaithful husband ZEUS produced an incredible number of illicit offspring with an entire pantheon of lovely ladies.
If he wasn't liasing with LETO and LEDA, he was getting friendly with DANAE, THEMIS or MNEMOSYNE — all behind HERA's back. He used every trick in the book to mislead and divert her away from his affairs. See our entry on ECHO for an example.
Although as regal as they come, HERA is not the most Godly of Goddesses. She can be spiteful, vicious and extremely jealous, but who can blame her with all the carrying-on ZEUS did? Their arguments and fighting make Mount Olympus shake to its roots. And when HERA starts throwing the Holy Crockery you know it's time to make a rapid exit.
Even ZEUS is scared of his formidable wife. After seeing what she did to his illegitimate son HERACLES we can understand why. The one time he managed to get the better of her by force, by chaining her to a mountain with horrifically heavy weights, ZEUS didn't hear the end of the matter for centuries. No wonder he spends most of his time delayed at the office.
We have to admire HERA's strength and determination. She certainly gives as good as she gets. And if you're lucky enough to be in her good books, she can be wonderfully gracious and charming. But she's best avoided at parties unless you happen to be carrying a sacred pomegranate in your pocket.
Ok, i'm definetly going with Hera.
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Quote:Ha! I have ERIS written all over me, but wouldn't even begin to know what sort of costume she'd wear.
Eris - goddess of spite and mischeif
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Seryn,
OK, I think I should be Hestia. "Hestia - Goddes of hearth and home (most widely worshipped, and most level headed goddess!)" Being one of the oldest Browncoats, I figure it's a role that best fits my age. Also, I'm an Earth Mother type.
"HESTIA: She's the Goddess of Hearths and Domesticity. With fire the only means of cooking and heating, she kindled a lot of respect. The Romans re-introduced her as Vesta. She had a festival called Vestalia on 7th June. At the festival there were ceremonies that were conducted by extra-special Vestal Virgins who had taken vows of chastity lasting thirty-nine years. (And after thirty-nine years we suspect they were not inclined to bother.)"
I hope everyone remembers to celebrate with me on June 7th, and Vestial Virgins can apply at www.vestialvirgins.com .
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Don't forget Thanatos, servant of Hades, and god of Death (that's "death" the verb, not the noun. Hades is the ruler of the state of death, Thanatos is the one who gets you there. A Reaper).
There's also Charon, the ferryman (who must be freakin' rich by now).
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Originally posted by seryn:
Hecate - up until now she was just a name i used to scare away jehovas witnesses. Ok "Goddess of Hidden Wisdom, Change and Darkness" (Queen of Witches) - Mai?
Ahem - why would she be particularly fitting for Mai, Jadehand?
Well not by that discription. She's not a witch. Try this info...
"Hecate was the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy. She was the only child of the Titanes Perses and Asteria from whom she received her power over heaven, earth, and sea."
"Hekate was a torch-bearing goddess of the night, the leader of haunting ghosts and inspirer of the night-time baying of hounds. She may have been a goddess of the moon or rather of moonless starlit nights."
"The gods Hekate, Persephone and Haides presided over the oracles of the dead and the art of nekromankia (necromancy), the summoning forth of the ghosts of the dead."
"The Oracle of the Dead in Thesprotia was a shrine dedicated to the gods Haides and Persephone. Hekate was probably invoked as the mistress of ghosts in the rituals."
http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T16.8.html
http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T16.7.html
"HEKATE was the goddess of witchcraft, the night, the new moon, ghosts, necromancy and crossroads.
She did not have many public temples in the Greek world, although small household shrines, which were erected to ward off evil and the malevolent powers of witchcraft, were common. Her most important cults were those of Eleusis and the island of Samothrake, where she was worshipped as an associate-goddess of the Mysteries. "
"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
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oh...statuary....
Hades. 
Poseidon. 
Hecate. 
"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
visit WWW.Marillion.com for a better way of life.
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