The Street of Small Gods, from Ankh-Morpork, containing gods such as Offler, Om, and Blind Io, and Anoia, a minor goddess of Things That Stick In Drawers.IIRC, Anoia's 'temple' is actually on Cable Street. (It's a room above a bookies, IIRC. Well, better Anoia be there (who used to be a Volcano Goddess, before taking up Her modern-day role) than "The Lady", even though the latter probably gets 'prayed' to much more by those downstairs... Any actual temples to Her tend to... not last for long. For totally coincidental reasons, of course. Even the Sender-Of-Seven-Plus-One's old temples tend to last a long, long time after their worshippers have gone from the area. And the Young Men's Reformed Cultists of the Ichor God Bel-Shamharoth Association is actually a very friendly and multiculturally-accepting place to stay!)
Hold up, now, the thread said unofficial religions only. I know for a fact anubis and ammit still have worshippers and official recognition in places. Kokopelli, too, though less sure about the other non-discworld ones.
Hold up, now, the thread said unofficial religions only.
Hold up, now, the thread said unofficial religions only..
Hold up, now, the thread said unofficial religions only..
Does Shinto count, since it's not an organized religion and is based on an individual's personal beliefs ?
Gods break rules, bro.
but if gods can break rules then so can we...then we have become as gods!
it's starting to feel like you've derailed your own thread.
but if gods can break rules then so can we...then we have become as gods!
I invoke the Gods of Fire to burn down the garden of eden, the garden which paris of troy went to, apples generally, because goddamn that's a annoying fucking meme. Somebody mentioned Abrahamic religions - burn all the memes in the bible please. Thanks. And if the devil gets smart about it, punch him and introduce him to a fire SEASON. (https://open.spotify.com/track/0pMXpIJ5IAHwRebUgdKQ8F?si=f423d4c08fb04f60)I invoke the Spirits of nature to rise up. Bugs, vines and skittering things. Let them lend their existence against the supposed Jehovah. By their bites, they are known. By their scratches, they are known. By their tiny limbs they are known.
So many memes to burn...
If we're doing both official and unofficial gods how come no one's mentioned the Norse gods yet?Loki, it'Snotra competition, let's not be all Bragi about what Höðr deities are more Fulla represented Eir. It's not a good Sigyn that I'm Lofn so much that my ribs are Thor...
If we're doing both official and unofficial gods how come no one's mentioned the Norse gods yet?Thor bless you, I was just thinking that.
So in the Marathon game trilogy (origin of my name, big inspiration for me) there's this ancient mysterious force called the W'rkncacnter. All information about them is vague, even in the third game where one gets accidentally freed from a stellar prison and breaks, well, time itself into a confusing poetic "narrative". I guess there are multiple, they are dangerous and "chaotic" in some way, and the Ancients sealed all or most of them away in stars so they'd stop ruining the galaxy.Spoiler: You may or may not get the reference (click to show/hide)
Things have gone terribly awry. Until now, I thought myself immortal, but now I know that is not true. There are things that can destroy me with the ease that I slaughtered the Pfhor naval garrison and the Western Arm of their Battle Group Seven. But in their final gasp they used a weapon that I thought they had retired, even Tycho tried to keep them from using it.And the commander of the alien battlegroup who unwittlingly freed this thing by detonating the star:
Now I fear what that weapon has unleashed will destroy us. I once boasted to be able to count the atoms in a cloud, to understand them all, predict them, and so did I predict you, but this new chaos is entirely terrible, mindless, obeying rules that I don't comprehend. And it is hungry.
It's too bad, perhaps if I could have delayed the Pfhor from using their weapon, I could have sent you to explore the ruins of Lh'owon, perhaps what you found would give us the answers that we now need so desparately: how to stop this chaos, the purpose of the station on which you're currently standing, and why the chaos hasn't come here yet.
But with each moment the chaos grows, I am doomed to die here, after so many triumphs. I have detected one ship nearby, which I can only guess is being commanded by Tycho. The Pfhor have entered the station, and if you can find a way onto their ship, you may be able to escape. To escape. To escape.
But the trackless whisper chattering throughThis is some of the only information we ever hear about the alien culture. A conqueror of dozens of worlds sits and prays... and, I think, turns an energy weapon on himself. "The shields are gone, not down, but gone" has truly stuck with me.
the hollow space in these cursed walls buzzes
and threatens madness. The abomination
cracked the shells of my crew and sucked the
husks, tossing them unseen and shattering the
spindle like a dried creche.
The shields are gone, not down, but gone, and
so are the engineers. It's coming back, I'm
sure: and my last mercy is immolation.
Great Mother crouched behind the Throne, I
make this wrong right.
It can be anything you want it to be. (Religiously)We now find ourselves in the anything goes god thread!
anything goes god
I might just because you said not to.anything goes godDon't tempt him.
There is but one worthy god, and He is... (https://wiki.lspace.org/God_of_Evolution)
There is but one worthy god, and He is... (https://wiki.lspace.org/God_of_Evolution)
The most relevant god.
Immolt the goatFeel the orange peel
Temples don't just celebrate gods dude. You animistic stone-age ancestors would be ashamed.They should be ashamed.
That would be a disastrous thing to worship. If too many people did so, our world might start to resemble a dumpster fire.
That would be a disastrous thing to worship. If too many people did so, our world might start to resemble a dumpster fire.You just gotta embrace the dumpster fire! (Do not actually embrace a dumpster that's burning as this it can cause severe burns.)
Band's called Cepheid if that helps.I hear that their output is variable...
One might think Athena is the deity of losing, weak and diplomatic. One need only look at the ententes of the present day. Soft power, projection of power, are far more important than Ares's arts of war.To be fair in almost every instance where Ares and Athena have a contest in epics and plays, Athena fucking trounces Ares and it's not even close. Ares is just the guy who fights, but Athena is the one who thinks. Sure she'll lose in a 1vs1 against Ares, but she'll just call Diomedes and have him beat the shit out of Ares whilst waylaying all of Ares's sons. Having wisdom and strategy on your side has a serious force multiplier effect on any forces you have; and poor Ares could use some of that wisdom given the amount of times he gets into shit with Hephaestus or Zeus. I think it would be more revolutionary and surprising if I stumbled on a play where Ares didn't get 5d underwater backgammon strip poker chess'd to death by Athena
I'm pretty sure Kojima made 2-5 games about this.
Still. I respect and pray to Ares as I do Athena.
You never know when the detente will collapse.
You wouldn't stop worshipping magma just because it consumed your artifact vault
Am I out of tune with the Song?
Starver, God of Paranoia
Starver, God of ParanoiaWho told you that!?!?
Starver, God of ParanoiaWho told you that!?!?
Step on me Tyche
Tyche would step on him
The Seven Lucky Gods (Japanese)But you only have five of them, what did you do with the other two?
-cut-
Nobody say it
The Seven Lucky Gods (Japanese)You can add something like width=384 to an img tag so that people aren't assaulted by giant, grainy-ass images that they hav to scroll. Then if they want to see the whole thing they can just click it.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Shichifukujin_by_Minzan-Ethno_BHM_1995.266.49-P6141072-gradient.jpg)
I sorta expected someone else to post this for me, but: If you want to know some neat lore about Dionysus before they kinda became just a gluttonous party god (kinda), Overly Sarcastic productions did a good video about the interesting and sometimes quite dark (both dangerous and mysterious) origins.Oh yeah I love this channel. Their use of AOM soundtracks, their art styles and their content are always wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5brAr51ip_k
That lead me to this amazing realization from Kurzgesagt: We're not at the end of Human existence, but rather the beginning. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEENEFaVUzU)
Instead of thinking of ourselves as super advanced, we're basically an Ancient Civilization.
Ideally like the Greeks, who people are still talking about today, instead of perhaps the Hittites, who are know for being the first to use Iron and not much else.
Make Magmacube a MissionaryWhy would you send him to a volcano, when he came from one?
Make Magmacube a MissionaryWhy would you send him to a volcano, when he came from one?
Why build a new tavern when you could just go to another one, I mean it's not like there's only one of the things.
I highly doubt you'd be smashed, I mean you'd have to do way worse than lose a tavern before that'd happen.Why build a new tavern when you could just go to another one, I mean it's not like there's only one of the things.
Toady will smash me to atoms if he learns that I lost a tavern.
I truly understand the difference between brutally cunning and cunningly brutal.This is very good. It deserves repeating.
(https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/groups/1/3/2055/thumb_620x2000/800px-GorknMork.jpg)
Don't pray to Vulcan - pray to "The Vulcan"But how will Spock help me in my day to day life?
What does a cave have to do with gods anyway?
Magmacube's avatar but bigger
(https://avatarfiles.alphacoders.com/195/195962.jpg)
You just enlarged me This place is about to flood
What does a cave have to do with gods anyway?Let me tell you about Fallen London *takes a deep breath*:
I think it's a frog.
But for the real answer we need to summon Magmacube.
I think it's a frog.
But for the real answer we need to summon Magmacube.
Who DARES summon the cube? Maker of memes, seeder of worlds!
Oh it's you guys. KeK is a frog.
I think it's a frog.
But for the real answer we need to summon Magmacube.
Who DARES summon the cube? Maker of memes, seeder of worlds!
Oh it's you guys. KeK is a frog.
What happens if KeK croaks?
Who are the two gods, and why don't you prey in the generic temple alternating between the two instead of the individual temples dedicated to your gods?
When did Quasar become a god, does that mean everyone here is a god or something?
And we probably should give the main temple area it's own room at some point.
What do you do when God's deadSpin the wheel and let fate decide your new god!
What do you do when God's dead
That's the problem.
Perhaps it would be better to say good is dead.
That's the problem.Doesn't sound like a problem to me.
That is a strange looking thing, not sure I'd worship it.Not sure you'd have a choice. Those eyes seem... hypnotic.
That is a strange looking thing, not sure I'd worship it.Not sure you'd have a choice. Those eyes seem... hypnotic.
My god it's like the hypnotoad of the bird world.That is a strange looking thing, not sure I'd worship it.Not sure you'd have a choice. Those eyes seem... hypnotic.
"My gaze is unavoidable, hoot hoot."
(https://i.imgur.com/IcdZ1zY.jpeg)
KeK shows GOP that it is already dead (circa. 2016).
I challenge anyone to find a chick who fits the name Io.No matter what's in your pants Io is not a good name for a person.
No matter what's in your pants Io is not a good name for a person.I agree, Iolo is *right there* and a much better name (Ultima reference)
grisha5 will return one day
But what does the helmet have to do with anything?The decal remind me the character from spiderman, so maybe 'serpent venom'
Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll return to us.grisha5 will return one day
praise
1What, are you limited by a linear flow of time or something?In fairness, yes. Pinkie promise have already destroyed your foes at an indefinite time in the future is the kind of thing you wouldn't agree to on a loan contract for money, nevermind your soul :P