I can’t think of any but classical myth from various cultures has divine events occur after deities cry or bleed or ejaculate or lose body parts or otherwise lose some godly mass. Many mythologies have their gods eating and drinking as well. I doubt anyone would say “we sprang up from godly crap” but maybe someone has an account of the land being made fertile that way or something.
Well, Norse mythology has Loki accusing Freya of farting when caught in bed with Freyr.
Where do you think the mana from heaven came from?
As long as “everyone” includes deities, then yes.
I’d be amazingly surprised if there isn’t lots of cases of gods pooping. Probably most particularly harvest gods (fertilizer.)
That said, I don’t know of any. India might be a good bet since they burn a lot of poop for cooking.
Apparently there’s a Japanese myth that the primeval mother goddess, Izanami, grew ill after being burned by the Fire God when she was giving birth to him. Her vomit, excrement and urine became other deities.
1 Kings 18:27 New International Version
I’ve heard speculation that in the original Hebrew, the phrase that’s translated “deep in though” actually means “sitting on the commode.” Sorry, no cite to back it up.
From Watership Down, by Richard Adams: “Long ago, Frith made the world. He made all the stars, too, and the world is one of the stars. He made them by scattering his droppings over the sky and this is why the grass and the trees grow so thick on the world.”
You do believe in Frith, don’t you?
Of course. But we’re of a group who believes that while El-ahrairah was a good rabbit, he was not divine.
Thanks for the answers so far.
What, and give in to the Devilbunny hordes? The Evil that Fluffs shall not gain a foothold in my house!
AFAIK, they used night pots or holes rather than commodes back then.
The Aztecs had something of an obsession with shit and had no taboo about their gods producing it. Gold was even “the excrement of the gods”, sometimes specifically the Sun.
Didn’t Aristophanes say that rain was Zeus pissing through a seive?
And let’s not forget how Danaë was impregnated by Zeus disguised as a golden shower.
Never heard of “Holy Shit”?
Was that meant to go in a different thread?
Native Indian tales can be very scatalogical.
“Wolverine Creates the World: Labrador Indian Tales” by Lawrence Millman contains many examples of gods & their fecal matter.
I think he’s suggesting that God took a dump in Long Island and created Levittown.
My fiancee is from there. Better not let her see this thread or she might ban me from the Dope.
I found this: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations on Google Books. I wouldn’t be surprised if The Golden Bough had a section on scatology and the gods, but I don’t have a copy available to check.
In the main creation myth, Izanagi (male) and Izanami (female) together dipped the jeweled spear of heaven into the primordial ocean. Drops from the end of the spear became the first island of Japan; the others were born from their later mating. There are obvious sexual overtones in this story.
On an interesting note, this story and many others from the earliest myths of Japanese history show signs that they were originally from the Jomon people, who were either a splinter group, or cousin to the people who became the modern Ainu. Judging from the archeological records, the Jomon culture was probably absorbed by more numerous and technologically advanced Yayoi people from one of the Korean kingdoms of antiquity, while the related Ainu were driven north by the expanding Yayoi culture.
I, uh, wouldn’t bring this up with any Japanese, though, since the Ainu are not particularly well regarded, being viewed as a conquered race of savages, and <deliberate understatement> they don’t like Koreans very much either. Japanese aren’t quite as rabid about defending the mainstream myth of their descent as fundamentalist Christians are about defending the historical accuracy of the Old Testament stories, but they usually aren’t willing to discuss it rationally either.