The Atoz Game (Part 3)

gkster · February 24, 2026, 9:20pm

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost
Questing Beast - a chimerical creature which appears in various Arthurian legends; it was the subject of a number of quests by various knights, particularly King Pellinore and his family
Ra, Egyptian Sun God

Surprised that Egypt hasn’t shown up in the list yet
And regarding Malakas and Maganda above, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos had themselves painted as the mythological characters: The Story Behind the Marcoses’ Malakas at Maganda Painting

Elendil_s_Heir · February 24, 2026, 9:32pm

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost
Questing Beast - a chimerical creature which appears in various Arthurian legends; it was the subject of a number of quests by various knights, particularly King Pellinore and his family
Ra, Egyptian Sun God
Saturn - Roman god of the Capitol, time, wealth, agriculture and liberation

Prof.Pepperwinkle · February 24, 2026, 9:41pm

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From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost
Questing Beast - a chimerical creature which appears in various Arthurian legends; it was the subject of a number of quests by various knights, particularly King Pellinore and his family
Ra, Egyptian Sun God
Saturn - Roman god of the Capitol, time, wealth, agriculture and liberation
Tiamat - Babylonian mother sea dragon

Elendil_s_Heir · February 24, 2026, 10:17pm

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost
Questing Beast - a chimerical creature which appears in various Arthurian legends; it was the subject of a number of quests by various knights, particularly King Pellinore and his family
Ra, Egyptian Sun God
Saturn - Roman god of the Capitol, time, wealth, agriculture and liberation
Tiamat - Babylonian mother sea dragon
Usha - The Vedic goddess of dawn in Hindu mythology

knoodler · February 25, 2026, 5:51am

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost
Questing Beast - a chimerical creature which appears in various Arthurian legends; it was the subject of a number of quests by various knights, particularly King Pellinore and his family
Ra, Egyptian Sun God
Saturn - Roman god of the Capitol, time, wealth, agriculture and liberation
Tiamat - Babylonian mother sea dragon
Usha - The Vedic goddess of dawn in Hindu mythology
Vishnu - the Hindu god of preservation, protection, and maintenance of the universe

(Also: Vaal, the self-aware computer-machine on Gamma Trianguli VI that was worshipped like a god by the inhabitants of the planet.)

kenobi_65 · February 25, 2026, 5:58am

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost
Questing Beast - a chimerical creature which appears in various Arthurian legends; it was the subject of a number of quests by various knights, particularly King Pellinore and his family
Ra, Egyptian Sun God
Saturn - Roman god of the Capitol, time, wealth, agriculture and liberation
Tiamat - Babylonian mother sea dragon
Usha - The Vedic goddess of dawn in Hindu mythology
Vishnu - the Hindu god of preservation, protection, and maintenance of the universe
Wendigo - a malevolent supernatural spirit or creature in the folklore of several Algonquian peoples in what is now Canada, representing hunger and starvation.

Little_Nemo · February 25, 2026, 7:18pm

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost
Questing Beast - a chimerical creature which appears in various Arthurian legends; it was the subject of a number of quests by various knights, particularly King Pellinore and his family
Ra, Egyptian Sun God
Saturn - Roman god of the Capitol, time, wealth, agriculture and liberation
Tiamat - Babylonian mother sea dragon
Usha - The Vedic goddess of dawn in Hindu mythology
Vishnu - the Hindu god of preservation, protection, and maintenance of the universe
Wendigo - a malevolent supernatural spirit or creature in the folklore of several Algonquian peoples in what is now Canada, representing hunger and starvation.
Xenu - Evil god of scientology.

How old does your religion have to be to count as mythology?

Elendil_s_Heir · February 25, 2026, 7:37pm

Last week is old enough, I’d say!

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost
Questing Beast - a chimerical creature which appears in various Arthurian legends; it was the subject of a number of quests by various knights, particularly King Pellinore and his family
Ra, Egyptian Sun God
Saturn - Roman god of the Capitol, time, wealth, agriculture and liberation
Tiamat - Babylonian mother sea dragon
Usha - The Vedic goddess of dawn in Hindu mythology
Vishnu - the Hindu god of preservation, protection, and maintenance of the universe
Wendigo - a malevolent supernatural spirit or creature in the folklore of several Algonquian peoples in what is now Canada, representing hunger and starvation.
Xenu - Evil god of Scientology.
Yemayá - goddess of the ocean, motherhood and fertility in the Yoruba religion and Santería

knoodler · February 25, 2026, 9:45pm

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost
Questing Beast - a chimerical creature which appears in various Arthurian legends; it was the subject of a number of quests by various knights, particularly King Pellinore and his family
Ra, Egyptian Sun God
Saturn - Roman god of the Capitol, time, wealth, agriculture and liberation
Tiamat - Babylonian mother sea dragon
Usha - The Vedic goddess of dawn in Hindu mythology
Vishnu - the Hindu god of preservation, protection, and maintenance of the universe
Wendigo - a malevolent supernatural spirit or creature in the folklore of several Algonquian peoples in what is now Canada, representing hunger and starvation.
Xenu - Evil god of Scientology.
Yemayá - goddess of the ocean, motherhood and fertility in the Yoruba religion and Santería
Zeus - Greek god of sky and thunder, king of gods on Mount Olympus

pass

ekedolphin · February 25, 2026, 9:59pm