:: tosses an Acme-brand missile launcer to Wile E::
Do your worst. You can find me in the State of Confusion.
Just add Bailey for the other three days. Better yet, drop the other eight and make it Bailey for all 12 days.
The other gods won’t get jealous. They’ll understand.
Ambush Bug.
Squirrel Girl.
The monster under the bed.
How about Durga Mata since you seem to like tough female goddesses?
Aspect of Kali.
Or maybe Kali’s an aspect of her.
I don’t know, I was distracted during that class.
You kid, right? Every Doper who is any Doper knows that only Cecil Adams is deserving of worship.
How about the Morrigan? Worship her as a single entity or spread it out over 3 days (bringing you to 12) to celebrate her triple goddess nature.
Minimizes worshipping paraphernalia, locations and allows for potential reuse of sacrifices if needed.
You can’t seriously be considering that I elevate her above Athena. The priority is and shall always be
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Gaia, it’s nice to have a planet to welcome you home and if you chose earth it saves you a long trip back.
Personal favourites… and going with the “long time dead” theme:
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Mictlantecutli– Aztec god of the dead. He’s got a cool name, and rules a place “where the streets are on the left”, that has a howling wind of obsidian flaying knives and a river of blood with jaguars in it. Jaguars!
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Ereshkigal– Inanna’s older sister, and Sumerian goddess of the underworld “from which there is no return” – so it’s probably a good idea to stay laying up favours with her.
and on a slightly different note:
- Völundr, aka Weyland the Smith. Perhaps useful for someone who has a considerable interest in dire and nefarious machines Skald, while also being the sort of chap that when crossed would fashion goblets from the skulls of his captor’s offspring.
The Frog. It’s a pan-dimensional being that I [del]invented[/del] discovered in high school.
A fickle god, that is mostly interested in itself, and does not answer prayers. Does return stolen calculators though.
Eric Clapton
The accursed Smith is well-known to me; I have discussed him hereabouts ere this. I will have no truck with his ilk. The day he is strung from his own gibbet, his eyes being eaten by his own crows, cannot come too soon.
I mean that in the nicest way possible, of course.
You could try Glycon, a snake-god, who has the only slight handicap of being a puppet. I mean a literal puppet. He has at least one modern worshipper, though, so you’d be in good(?) company.
There’s also Crom—for what good that would do you—though you’d have to choose betweenRobert Howard Crom and Marvel Comics Crom. Though the effective difference probably isn’t going to be that great.
The* American Military-Industrial Complex* is a popular choice for worship.
Consider–
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Downside: requires sacrifices of Gold, Blood…& butter.
I like Nehalennia, since she’s often depicted with dogs:
Banjo the Clown, in his aspect as Banjulhu!
Glycon? Sounds like a component of antifreeze. I don’t know that that’s a quality I want in a deity.
How about ᒪᓂᑑ (Manitou), or the 神 (kami) of Japan, spirits of place and the Great Interconnectedness? Too abstract?
Damn, beat me to it, as I was going to mention him after Rancloth mentioned some other puppet.
The Morrigan you say, Grey? Woof. Not one/three? I’d want to get involved with even tangientially. I mean, I’ve met the three ladies in other guises, but with this guise I would have no dealings.
I still want to meet this “Rancloth” guy, after all these years.