In my Social Studies class we are learning about Roman gods. We learned that the Romans had gods for everything! There is a god of mildew, bugs that live on cows, and doorhinges!
Do you know any other weird gods?
Weird Gods
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This is more folklore but Baba-Yaga of Scandanavian lore. Her lower body was that of a tree and moved by placing herself on a log and using sticks to propel herself; her house was in the woods and walked on chicken legs and she was a witch who ate kids.
I'll probably come up with more later. -
Yeah. The romans are wierd.
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I've heard of Baba Yaga before. She is weird. She's not a god but I guess that's okay.
Wow, I found a big list of Roman gods.
Ops: goddess of plenty
Portunes: god of doors, keys, and livestock
Carna: goddess of hearts and other organs
Cloacina: goddess of sewers
Devera: goddess of brooms
Epona: protector of donkeys
Fornax: goddess of baking bread
Lactanus: god who makes things yield milk
Mefitis: goddess of poisonous gases and volcanic vapor
(She must not be very popular in Pompeii)
Murtia: goddess of sloths and laziness
Nodutus: god who makes those knots in stalks of wheat
Potina: goddess of children's drinks
Sterquilinus: god of manure
Sammanus: god of nocturnal thunder
There were a LOT more but I just listed the weird ones. -
This one might be the weirdest yet:
Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky. She is the daughter of Shu, god of air, and Tefnut, goddess of moistness. She is pictured as a woman arched on her toes and fingertips over the earth. Her body was a starlit sky. She sometimes appeared in the form of a cow or sycamore tree. The Book of the Dead even says, "Hail, thou Sycamore Tree of the Goddess Nut!" At dusk the sun and the moon would pass into her mouth and be swallowed, travel the inside of her belly throughout the night, and then nature would take it's course and they would appear again at dawn. -
That's....... interesting.
Have any of you guys heard of Medusa? I learned that she was at one time one of the three sisters who were the moon goddesses. But Poseidon tricked them by telling them that they were going to go to his supposed temple. But it was really Athena's newly built one. They believed them, but Medusa was wary. Fast forwarding a litte bit, Athena comes finds them wandering around her temple, and curses the moon goddesses while Poseidon ran away.
There's more but that's a whole different story. -
How is it not interesting? Her name is NUT!
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I said it was interesting! But think about it! Nut, oh Nut, where are you?! Are you a crow or a sycamore tree now! Oh Nut! Oh and it's kinda creepy how she basically swallows the sun, the moon and all that! But, I guess I'm more of a Greek Freak.
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All Norse Gods and Goddesses are strange and twisted and undeniably...
[spoiler]*cough* Unintelligent. They are gullible and whatever the opposite of wise and sage is. Although they are very amusing to read about.[/spoiler]
I read an entire book on them. About the myths and such. Odin, their all-father sacrificed his eye so he'd know everything, trolls made wine out of blood from poets in order to get smart, and i believe it was Freya who's hair was chopped off as vengeance and then she replaced it with...yarn? Yes, very odd. Interesting people to worship.
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And Thor has a giant hammer that he hits people with when they are bad. That's the sound of thunder.
That's sort of weird because that would be a lot of thunder for every time someone is bad. And how many times have you seen someone get hit by thunder or a giant hammer? -
Lucy Pennykettle wrote:That's....... interesting.
Have any of you guys heard of Medusa? I learned that she was at one time one of the three sisters who were the moon goddesses. But Poseidon tricked them by telling them that they were going to go to his supposed temple. But it was really Athena's newly built one. They believed them, but Medusa was wary. Fast forwarding a litte bit, Athena comes finds them wandering around her temple, and curses the moon goddesses while Poseidon ran away.
There's more but that's a whole different story.
The way I learned it was that Medusa and Poseidon were doing certain, ah, scandalous deeds in Athena's temple, and she found out and turned Medusa and her sisters, Stheno and Euryale, into monsters.
By then Medusa was pregnant and when Perseus killed her, Chrysoar and Pegasus erupted from her body. Oh, and the blood from one side of her corpse could heal, the other could kill.
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I know about pegasus, but what's a chrysoar?
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Bookmarker wrote:Tefnut, goddess of moistness
Okay, that one's weird. o_o
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