After I die, I want to be remembered as a Pagan deity. What steps are necessary?

Question

Kallan: What if I try to continue the oral tradition of another deity? You know how Jesus was like Mithra and Horus? I want to do that, but with regard to a rodent.

Answer 1

Well, it works better in an oral-tradition society.. I don't know if you can pull it off nowadays, but some heroic deeds, a larger than life personality and some followers would help ;)

Edit: Ah okay now we have some detail.. hm, ok I'd say you'd have to get in good with a rodent-friendly culture first.. the U.S. isn't going to work. THEN, you have to start spreading the rumors of the rodent's salvation message and death/burial/resurrection.. from there, see how it goes.. good luck!

Answer 2

Well, I can actually offer you a road map to deity from my own folkways, as it happens.

It helps to understand heathens are *ancestor* worshippers to begin with. :-)

Freyr is a Norse godh, one of the Vanir (our fertility deities) the Lord of Harvest and so forth. But his *burial mound* is in Uppsala, Sweden, and the post-Conversion legend has it that he was originally an ancient king of the Ingvaones and Jutes, so successful, so prosperous, and so beloved that after he died, his people continued to make offerings and sacrifices to his burial mound for *good harvests* . . . and because it WORKED they kept doing it . . . and now he's a godh. :-)

Now, if would be easy to dismiss this as post-Conversion monkish twaddle and anti-heathen propaganda by the RCC, were it not for the historically known, and much later life of another king, Hakon the Good (iirc). When HE died, a great dispute arose, because everyone wanted him buried in *their* corner of the kingdom, so that they could continue to benefit and prosper from his sacral Luck, still resident in his bones. Eventually, they quartered his body, and buried each quarter in a different corner of his kingdom . . . and prosperity for his *whole* kingdom continued. This is, AFAIK, a true historical event within recorded history.

So, to be a pagan deity, or at least a *heathen* one:

1. Bring prosperity to a people. Your own extended family will suffice.
2. Promise to keep doing it after you're gone if they'll make annual offerings at your burial mound.
3. Keep that promise.

I know, I know . . . that last one's the sticky part. :-)

Answer 3

It's easy. Just become a god. You know.... perform a few miracles, perhaps drive snakes from the Amazon rainforest, restore thousands of acres of decimated woodland, that sort of thing.

Answer 4

Short of coming back to life, which would lend some credibility to a claim of divine status, you can probably forget it. LOL

Personally, I simply aspire to be remembered well for my worthy deeds.

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"What we do in life, echoes in eternity."
- Maximus (Gladiator)

Answer 5

Find a group of chaos magicians. Tell them you want to be a godform.


Good friggin luck.

Answer 6

You may go to the Mountain and recuit people. They will become your followers.

Answer 7

make a statue of your self and have it out in Rome

Answer 8

hahahahahaha youre joking right?