http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deities
Choose wisely, what say you?, etc.
2007-09-28 19:27:16 · 11 answers · asked by Brandon's been a dirty Hore 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh, and just so ya know, the mightiest of them all isn't even on that list. Ironical!
2007-09-28 19:27:49 · update #1
JMS: Same here, but I just like to humor the R&S public at large for sh!ts n giggles.
Nolt: rAmen brother, speak truth.
2007-09-28 19:35:22 · update #2
I'm not gonna lie... Eire, I only read about 1/8 of your answer. I really really really enjoyed the hell outta that 1/8, though. So, all better. Ahhhhhh.
2007-09-29 10:27:06 · update #3
I find in times of need, I can always pray to Joe Peschi. George Carlin recommends it, and I have seen the power it has worked in my life.
2007-09-28 19:31:41 · answer #1 · answered by Lillith 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being of Irish decent, I follow the irish gods. So my list long and many but tops are Dagda and Danu, and Brigit..and and. But I will stop with them.
The Irish-Celtic god of the earth and treaties, and ruler over life and death. Dagda, or The Dagda, ("the good god") is one of the most prominent gods and the leader of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He is a master of magic, a fearsome warrior and a skilled artisan. Dagda is a son of the goddess Danu, and father of the goddess Brigid and the god Aengus mac Oc. The Morrigan is his wife, with whom he mates on New Years Day
The Dagda is portrayed as possessing both super- human strength and appetite. His attributes are a cauldron with an inexhaustible supply of food, a magical harp with which he summons the seasons, and an enormous club, with one end of which he could kill nine men, but with the other restore them to life. He also possessed two marvellous swine---one always roasting, the other always growing---and ever-laden fruit trees.
One of his epithets is Ollathir, which means "All-father". He is identified with the Welsh Gwydion and the Gallic Sucellos.
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Danu (Ana)
Mother goddess. Danu or Ana was the mother of the race of Tuatha Dé Danann. Danu was goddess of fertility and the earth. Some believed that Danu and Ana were separate entities, even both are mother goddesses.
Danu was widely worshipped mother goddess throughout Europe. She was known under various names, such as Danu, Dana and Anu in Continental Europe and Ireland. In Wales, she was called Don.
Danu married her consort Bilé (Bile), and was the mother of Dagda, who was the chief leader of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Her other offspring probably were Dian Cécht and Nuada.
With Dagda, Danu was also the mother of Ogma. Her other possible sons were Cian (Kian), Sawan and Goibhniu by Dian Cécht.
Danu was also known by another name – Brigit. Here, as Ana or Brigit, she was known as the daughter of the Dagda. She was mother of three sons; all of them were named Ecne.
In some of the sources, Danu or Ana was the proper name of the war-goddess Morrigan.
In Munster, Danu was associated with two round-topped hills, which was called Da Chich Anann or the Paps of Ana, because they resembled two breasts. Da Chich Anann literally means the "two breasts of Ana".
Brigit is a goddess who survived the onslaught of Christianity. She wasn't turned into a devil like so many other Goddesses. So great was the love of the Irish people for this deity, that they retained all Her characteristics as a Christian saint! They would have none of Christianity if they couldn't keep Brigit. So the Catholic church had no choice but to make her a saint. She is a triple Goddess. This triple aspect of the Goddess is where Christians got the idea of the Trinity. The three-leaf shamrock was originally of "The Three Mothers", as well as the three phases of the moon being her symbols. She shares some attributes with the ancient Greek triple Goddess Hecate. There is a Swedish St Bridget also. Brigit's fame has been far and wide. Even as far as Africa, having come to Haiti in the hearts of deported Irish and Scottish indentured servants. However she went through a radical transformation, and her distant relative Maman Brigitte bears little resemblance, being rather a Goddess of vengence. She, did, however, retain the healing aspects, being called on to cure those at death's door.
BB
2007-09-29 02:57:05 · answer #2 · answered by Erie_Irish 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Elen of the Ways
http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/elen_1.htm
2007-09-29 04:23:27 · answer #3 · answered by Diane 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having been a seaman, I will go with Poseidon. I had a shipmate one time called Moose. He had Poseidon rising up out of the sea tattooed on his back. It covered his whole back and was done with bamboo slivers and a mallet in Hong Kong.
2007-09-29 02:40:31 · answer #4 · answered by What? Me Worry? 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Odin! Gotta love a god that gives mead to poets.
How did I not make that list!?!? Sol is on the Norse list but Skoll didn't make either one! GRRRR I'm gonna eat her slowly come Ragnarök!
2007-09-29 02:37:21 · answer #5 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I no longer know, but the image is printed on my footed jammies
and they continue to come out of the dryer turned inside out.
2007-09-29 02:33:19 · answer #6 · answered by B C 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Right now, it's my late brother's daughter, who is spending the night with us. She's a bad-*** mofo just like he was.
2007-09-29 02:33:46 · answer #7 · answered by I'/\/\AZILLA2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I refuse to bow to any god other than the FSM.
2007-09-29 02:32:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist, but if I had to pick one it would be a pantheistic god,
2007-09-29 02:32:11 · answer #9 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
with deities like mine who needs devils . just prefer the void .
2007-09-29 02:32:53 · answer #10 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋