For reasons that need not concern you infidels, I have decided to move to a twelve-day rotation for my worship schedule. Currently the rotation is nine-days long; it goes Athena, Anansi, Edda-Thor, Marvel Comics-Thor, Superman, Inanna, Bailey Quarters, Athena, Leroy Jethro Gibbs. (And yes, I am perfectly aware that Athena is on the list twice.)
Whom shall I give the three open spots to, and why?
I suggest Skald The Rhymer. He’s intelligent, articulate and fairly amusing, when he’s not being a total doof (and even more amusing when he is being a total doof). Plus, if he doesn’t answer your petitions, you know where he lives.
“Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That’s what’s important! Valor pleases you, Crom… so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then TO HELL WITH YOU!”
In the second place, your second sentence is a flat-out lie. The best that siding with the Elder Abomination can get you is being eaten first.
In the third place, Superman and either Thor could take Cthulhu with a toothpick. So could Athena but she wouldn’t bother, preferring to instead persuade her siblings Ares, Apollo, Herakles and Artemis to do it (WHICH THEY TOTALLY COULD!) while holding herself in reserve in the event of an unforseen complication. Anansi would also trick Cthulhu into eating himself; that is what “Anansi” means. Admittedly Bailey Quarters would be no match for Cthulhu using her own resrouces, but such is her valor that she would oppose him though she knew she was doomed, and such is her valor that all gods of every pantheon would leap to her defense, and again the Old One would fall. Gibbs would perish but never surrender, and in the wake of his death, the warring factions of Aesir and Vanir would be so chastened that even old One-Eye would do the right thing.
There was a fourth place but I forgot what it was.
The first and last are on the short list. But I have no intention of worshipping anyone from Hawaii. If they can’t handle consonants they can’t handle me.
Hades, definitely. It’s always a mistake to spend all your devotion on Gods who may, if your devotion is perfect, and they’re having a good day, make your life better here on Earth.
But by any measure you will be spending far more years dead than alive, so start now to invest in your long-term happiness and comfort.
Perhaps you should consider Legba, the Dweller at the Crossroads? His role is to facilitate communication with other gods and spirits, and with the number of deities you’re dealing with, someone to coordinate divine affairs might be helpful.