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iamus

00:27 / 15.10.04

What the abstract says.
Which posters would be the Gods of which attributes? For ego's sake it'd probably be best if you answer for each other rather than yourselves, but what the hell, do as you see fit.

lekvar

00:33 / 15.10.04

Does this have to be restricted to the Greek gods? Can we make up our own if we can give them a decent back story?

lekvar

00:40 / 15.10.04

Well, to start, I nominate Steve as Eros.

Char Aina

00:49 / 15.10.04

i'm totally THOR.
i'd eat my own fucking goats, man.

that of course is unless we are only allowed olympians...
in which case i guess i might be ares.

rage might be eris, i guess. does that mean we're related?
grant would be hermes for his sheer skill in information gathering and dissemination; tom would have to be uranus for obvious reasons; rizla gets hephaestus for his heavy metal know how; and gypsy gets hades for knowing more about the darkness than i do.

haus, flyboy, ganesh, nick and jack o'fear get the five titans, but fucked if i know how to assign them.

i find it especially hard to assign the female deities after eris...
how does one divvy up the goddess of wisdom and the goddess of beauty? there are too many wise and beautiful ladies here to choose.

and dionysus? maybe stoatie, but i have never seen him drink buckfast. baccanalian types would have to be impressive buckfasters in my humble opinion.

Char Aina

01:09 / 15.10.04

...knowing more about the darkness than i do.

or most of us, i should say.

Alex's Grandma

02:00 / 15.10.04

Jack Frost is Zeus.

grant

02:04 / 15.10.04

Honir, God of Indecision! And truces, too.

He's my new favorite.

LykeX

02:16 / 15.10.04

Actually, some myths say that Honir wasn't a real god, but an enchanted chicken and that's why he could never make any decisions on his own.
The story is that as part of the truce agreement between the Aesir and the Vanir they had to eachange hostages. The Aesir had to send two of their gods to live with the Vanir, but they cheated and one of the two was Honir, who was actually a chicken.
When the deceit was discovered, the Vanir decapitated Mimer, the other hostage and sent back his head to the Aesir. Odin thenused magic to revive Mimer's head, which is now placed deep underground near a well, where Odin will sometimes journey to consult with Mimer.

And that's what you get for spending your youth reading old myths.

w1rebaby

02:18 / 15.10.04

...so what happened to the chicken?

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02:42 / 15.10.04

Jack Frost is Zeus.

More like Icarus. Icarus MK2.

Just put me somewhere near the Wood Elves and I'll be fine.

Sekhmet

02:51 / 15.10.04

What about the people who are already named after gods?

I'm looking in Ganesh's direction, of course.

charrellz

03:08 / 15.10.04

Clearly we should find mere mortals to compare them to.

Ganesh is clearly that guy you always see on the bus and you always think of talking to, but the elephant head is just a little too disturbing.

Papess

03:15 / 15.10.04

Well, I am obvious.

I see you Grant as a Hermes.

Anna De Logardiere is a ringer for Artemis.

Keggers you are definately Kokopelli

Thats all I got so far.

Papess

03:18 / 15.10.04

Fridgemagnet, you'll be a fine Imhotep

Tezcatlipoca

07:07 / 15.10.04

What about the people who are already named after gods?

Indeed. Do we need to select a new god? If not, I'm sticking with Tez; if so, I'm going down the Loki route.

XXII:X:II = XXX

07:09 / 15.10.04

I'm going the folklore route and putting myself up as Br'er Rabbit: not always the wisest of figures, but almost always well-intentioned. Direct echoes are to be found in Bug Bunny, who the Discordians hold up as Eris' only begotten son, and The Maxx (Mr. Gone always called him "Br'er Lapin").

I had a comic idea once that was more or less a memoir of my college days, but all the characters were assorted mythological figures. It likely would have been called Automythology. It may yet still see light.

/+,

Jack Denfeld

07:15 / 15.10.04

I wanna be a Vampire!! Uhm....Brucius Wayneki, God of the bats!! Yeah!!

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07:49 / 15.10.04

Matt Flux has to be the Buddha doesn't he, and Jack Denfeld, you could be Heruka too.

hanabius yamamura

08:11 / 15.10.04

... i can't help thinking of Xoc as Pan ...

Whisky Priestess

08:20 / 15.10.04

I hope no-one's bagged Cotytto* yet. Except, y'know, in a sexual way.

*Cotytto, goddess of the Edoni of Thrace. Her orgies resembled those of the Thracian Cybelê .

"Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport,
Dark-veiled Cotytto, to whom the secret flame
Of midnight torches burns!"
—Milton: Comus, 139, etc. (1634).

8===>Q: alyn

10:16 / 15.10.04

Ahem... ah-ha-ha-hem. Over here, you nitwits.

First one to mention lemons or toilet patties gets a blight on his crops unto the fifth generation.

Ganesh

10:21 / 15.10.04

... i can't help thinking of Xoc as Pan ...

... which would, I suppose, make me one of Pan's people.

Gypsy Lantern

10:40 / 15.10.04

and gypsy gets hades for knowing more about the darkness than i do.

That's going a bit far isnt it... I mean, I thought that Christmas song they had out was quite funny at the time, but that's only because I was a bit stoned when I first saw it.

Ganesh

10:47 / 15.10.04

Bet you look good in a catsuit, though, GL...

8===>Q: alyn

10:55 / 15.10.04

I'm claiming Cromm Cruac. I'd post the poem but I have babies to eat.

Grey Area

12:12 / 15.10.04

I claim Huaillepenyi, God of Fog.

Grant, with his web-fu, would make a damn fine Omoikane, shinto god of knowledge. Don't know whether there's a resemblance though.

Persephone

12:47 / 15.10.04

Jack Fear's not Zeus. Jack Fear is Cronus.

Jack Fear

13:06 / 15.10.04

* burps *

'scuse me.

14:10 / 15.10.04

Not a deity actually, so far as I know, but dibs on Asushunamir.

grant

14:56 / 15.10.04

fridge: ...so what happened to the chicken?

He survives Ragnarok, dude.

Benny the Ball

18:35 / 15.10.04

Are there any gods that are really clumsy and slightly sleepy? I'll have that one.

Whisky Priestess

18:51 / 15.10.04

Dionysus? But only after he's had a few ...

unheimlich manoeuvre

20:16 / 15.10.04

if i may, i'll claim the two-faced roman deity Janus, responsible for beginnings and doors. January is named after Janus.

So are janitors!

I had a comic idea once that was more or less a memoir of my college days, but all the characters were assorted mythological figures. It likely would have been called Automythology. It may yet still see light.

You mean like The King Kanute Crowd?

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