Fictional Deities, which would you choose and why?

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

Hi, I recently wrote some comments on Youtube you may find interesting, but feel free to list and mention any others you may think of, but I mainly write out those from the Conan the Barbarian works.

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So just out of interest, which of the Gods of Howard's Conan Universe (and feel free to throw in Lovecraft's as well since they were peers and throw in Game of Thrones while you're at it and Warhammer too why don't cha!) would you think is "real" or actually worship or follow and believe in? The Gods seem to be inspired by "real life" Gods as well as "real" aspects of life. Even Lovecraft's Gods seem analogous to some real deities and conceptsm, some of which are taken quite seriously today. In the films, it seems a variant if Dagon might have taken on the name Dagoth, similar to how Biblical deity names of "enemy gods" would take on "oth" like Ashtaroth for example.

Ajujo of the Black Kingdoms - Combat, Luck, Plague Male

Anu of Ophir - Fertility, Strength Male

Ashtoreth of Shem - Fertility, Protection Female

Asura of Vendhya, Iranistan - Healing, Illusion, Knowledge, Serpents Male

Bel of Zamora, Shem - Chaos, Death, Trickery

The Masked God Bori of Hyperborea - Strength, War Male

Crom of Cimmeria The Grim and Grey God

Dagon or Dagoth of Shem, Black Kingdoms -Protection, Water, Weather Male

Damballah of Zembabwei, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Serpents Male

Set of Stygia

Derketo of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Healing, Seduction Female
Derketa of the Black Kingdoms

Erlik of Turan, Hyrkania - Death, Knowledge, Prophecy Male

The God of the Yellow Hand of Death and the Golden Peacock of Shem - Blood, Trickery

Gwahlur of Keshan - Darkness, Prophecy Male The King of Darkness

Hanuman of Zamboula, Vendhya - Beast, Illusion, Knowledge Male
Lord of the Black Throne

Harakht, Hawk - God of Stygia - Animal, Knowledge, War Male

Ibis of Stygia, Nemedia - Knowledge, Magic, Protection Male

Ishtar of Shem, Koth, Khauran, Khoraja - Earth, Healing, Fertility, Seduction Female
Earth-Mother

Shub-Niggurath

Jhebbal Sag of Pictland, Black Kingdoms - Beast, Chaos, Strength Male Lord of Beasts

Jhil Ghanata of Darfar, Picts - Air, Law, Strength Male

Jullah of Black Kingdoms, Picts - Beast, Strength Male
Gullah of Pictland

Kali of Vendhya, Ghulistan - Death, Fertility, Healing, War Female
The Black Mother

Mitra of Western Kingdoms - Good, Healing, Protection, Sun Male

Nebethet of Punt - Death, Luck, Prophecy Female
The Ivory Goddess

Nergal of Shem - Destruction, Plague, War Male

Pteor of Shem - Air, Fertility, Strength Male

Adonis

Set of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Magic, Serpents, Weather Male Father Set, The Great Serpent,

Damballah of Black Kingdoms

Wiccana of Brythunia -Healing, Plant Female Nature Goddess

Xotli of Atlantis - Blood, Evil

Yajur of Kosala - Death, Prophecy

The God of Yota-Pong

Yama of Meru - Evil, Fire Male King of Devils

Ymir of Nordheim - Destruction, Strength, War Male The Frost Giant

Yog of Darfar, Zuagir - Bats, Blood, Darkness The Lord of Empty Abodes
Camazotz

Yun of Khitai - Guardian, Plant

Zath of Zamora - Darkness, Spiders or Omm, The Spider-God of Yezud

Deities and Demi-gods of the Hyborian Age

Nordheimr/Cimmerian Gods

Ymir the frost-giant - Nordheimr god

Atali - Ymir's Daughter, Nordheimr god

Frost Giants/Ice Giants - Ymir's Sons, Nordheimr gods

Cimmerian gods

Crom - Cimmerian god

Lir - Cimmerian god

Mannanan - Cimmerian god, son of Lir

Badb - Cimmerian war goddess

Morrigan - Cimmerian goddess of battle, strife, and fertility

Macha - Cimmerian goddess of war, horses, sovereignty

Nemain - Cimmerian goddess of the havoc of war

Diancecht

Dagda

Hyborian gods

Bori - Hyborian god, chief and king

Mitra - Hyborian god

Anu - Corinthian sky god

Fear - Hyborian god

Fate - Hyborian god

Ishtar - Hyborian goddess
/Shemitish fertility goddess

Death - Hyborian god

Time - Hyborian god

Darkness - Hyborian god

Light - Hyborian god

Night - Hyborian god

Nameless Old Ones - Hyborian gods

Nightmare - Hyborian god

Ahriman - Hyborian god/devil

Night of the World - Hyborian god

Stygian gods

Ibis - Stygian god of wisdom and the moon

Set - Stygian Serpent-god

Child of Set - Giant serpent with human head, Stygian god

Giant-Kings/Monster Kings - Pre-Stygian Race of gods

Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure

Shemitish gods

Bel - Zamoran god, god of thieves

Ishtar - Hyborian goddess/Shemitish fertility goddess

Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure

Ashtoreth - Shemitish goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war

Adonis - Shemitish god

Dagon - Shemitish fish god

Baal - Archeronian/ Shemitish god/demon

Devil - Shemitish god

Pteor - Pelishtim god

Vendhyan gods

Asura - Vendhyan god

Yizil - Vendhyan god

Kosalan god

Yajur - Kosalan god

Gods of the Black Kingdoms

Jullah - Ku****e god

Princess Yelaya - Alkmeenonian, Oracle of Alkmeenon, goddess to Keshan

Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Ku****e raven god

Ajujo, the Dark One - Ku****e god

Gwahlur - Keshani god

Derketa Queen of the Dead - Ku****e goddess

Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts

Ivory Woman of Punt

Hyrkanian gods

Yog Lord of the Empty Abodes - Hyrkanian demon god

Hanuman - Hykanian ape-god

Erlik - Hyrkanian god of death and the underworld

Tarim - Hyrkanian god

Zamorian god

Spider-god of Yezud

Pictish gods and demi-gods

Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts

Zogar Sag - Pict, Gwaweli tribe, Pictish wizard, shaman, Jhebbal Sag's son

Hairy One who lives on the moon - Pictish god

Gorilla-god of Gullah

Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Ku****e raven god

Children of Jhil - Pictish raven familiars

Khitan gods

Yag-Kosha/Yogah of Yag - Demon of the Elder World, from the green planet Yag worshiped by the Yellow-skulled priests of Yun

Yun - Khitan god

Other Gods and Demi-Gods

Gods of Yag

Thog - Xuthalan god, shadow monster

Khosatral Khel - Transmutated sorcerer, the ancient from the Abyss, Dagonian god

Ollam-onga - Vampire, god of Gazal

Dragon gods - gods of Xuchotl

Thaug - Giant shadowy monster worshipped by Taramis

Gods and Goddesses of the night worshipped by Taramis

Eve - Judeo/Christian progenitor
Blonde demigod

Blonde Demi-God's Father

Devil from the outer dark/bat

Demon worshipped by the brown women of The Vale of Lost Women

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

Part 2:
Here is a response I wrote to someone who answered "Crom!" which may be of interest to some readers!:
Haha! Thank you! Yeah, I thought Crom and Set might be the two most popular choices. Crom for people who want to take after Conan and Set for people who are into the evil wizard aesthetic maybe.

The stories use the names of and concepts of numerous real world Gods, even Derketo was the name given to Atargatis by some Greek writings. As far as I'm aware, most if not all have some real world reference, basis, or inspiration.

Due to the current lack of popularity for Christianity, I expected that Mitra would get chosen least by people but that the big statue avatar version from Conan Exiles might bring some interest back to Mitra. The statue is based on some old Conan cover art from like 1933 or something which shows a statue of Mitra, as well as maybe the concept of a giant living and moving statue like the Collosus of Rhodes tends to inspire or appears to be in some media depictions like that of Ray Harryhausen which also may have inspired the Statue of Liberty scene in Ghostbusters II.

Out of the most popular and frequently referred to Gods in the Conan Universe, Asura is the one I'd expect people not to know too much about automatically or intuitively.

I think one of my favorites is Dagon / Dagoth who seems to be present in Conan the Destroyer, and also has mention in lots of media outside of the Conan Universe, such as in Lovecraft's work and among other authors, due to stories in the Bible.

Dagon was according to some academics, possibly another name for El, and El is the origin or related to the popular word for God used by a vast chunk of the world, Allah.

That could mean that of all the Gods mentioned in Conan's Universe (which is supposed to be our world in very ancient times), Dagon is the most mentioned in media and the most worshipped to this day among Gods mentioned directly in Howard's Conan Universe and the Conan film Universe as well.

Dagon as El is the God of Everything and Originator but has specific linkage to water (symbolically water can also represent Information, Wisdom, Dreaming), blood (insight), the moon (a curved horn theme which may also represent the moon, life growth, fertility, potency, virility), monsters including monsters in the deep unknown and being a monster in the sense of wild untamed nature and natural forces with overwhelming power (creation of lifeforms and creatures and uncontrollable elements and weather such as sky in the rains, sea in its bounty, Earth and its quakes and harvests based heavily on time, lunar activity, and season), being the basis upon which people depend and which people interact with as the generator of all experiences / information (like a dream).

The others are barely worshipped today, as very few Satanists genuinely and formally worship Set or Satan, Ahriman, or Snake imagery even though they like such.

Even though Mitra is supposed to resemble or be an early form of Christian deity, it isn't really, and the original Mitra finds relation to Dagon again through the very common Vedic appelation or epithet Mitra-Varuna, where Varuna is very similar to Dagon and has similar associations between Dagon and Yam or Yw and Indra and El and Allah. Dagon which is also spelled Dagan in academic transliteration may also be Dan or Zan of Crete (The people and cults on Ancient Crete also had a taboo on pork and the Sea was especially important to them and the Philistines are thought to be related to them as part of the Ancient "Sea Peoples" and they were also circumsized based on Egyptians being resistant to taking trophies of their genitals which they likely considered marred and instead would take their hand as a trophy).

Most people who talk to me about God, seem to believe in a concept where God is a kind of distant and remote being, often mentally anthropomorphized by believers and non-believers alike, who does not intervene much but people are free and asked to rely on their own will and power, and so a concept very similar to Conan's Crom is also highly popular among people, particularly Western or Westernized and somewhat deistic or agnostic post-enlightenment types of people. In ancient times though, Crom Cruaigh was prostrated to in a manner similar to how modern Muslims worship.

Many people also believe in or say they believe in Set or Ahriman as "The Source and Cause of Evil, The Devil" and a Zoroastrian style Dualism is quite popular in thinking due mainly to Christianity and its popular interpretation, though most people do not worship or call upon Set. If they do seek vengeance they may instead really prefer calling upon Nergal (Aplu or Apollo or Mikkal who is Michael) to avenge their injuries, fight or go to war against what they deem evil, or bring down the doom and punishment or heal them. Yet, trouble and hostility is ever present overall, it is not constantly present for every individual all the time, making that sort of thing less frequent (see the funny Kenneth Copeland Covid-19 Remix by WtfBrehh).

People, males as well as females also naturally obsess over femininity, sex, and beauty, the domains of Ishtar and Derketo (Atargatis) or Venus in the Conan Universe.

Generally, there are 7 main theme areas that humans can sort things into, and those are:

0. Sun - Cronus, Time, Space, Universe, Void, Everything, Authority, Golden Age, Linked to El
1. Jupiter - Zeus, Sky and Air Weather and Wind, Force, Domination Linked to Baal
2. Moon - Poseidon, Waters, Encompassing, Storage, Bounty, Knowledge, Vastness, Depth, Substance, Linked to Yam
3. Saturn - Hades, Earth, Harvest, Farming, Decrees, Judgment, Afterlife/Underworld, Death / Resurrection, Growth from the Soil, Linked to Mot
4. Mercury - Hermes, Fire, Electricity, Plasma (Ionized Gas), Industry, Innovation, Communication, Trade, Language, Theft, Linked to Thoth and Nabu or Nebo
5. Venus - Attar or Aphrodite, Growth, Life, Beauty, Fertility, Sex, Ambition, Lust, Legacy, Philosophy, Ideals and Idealism, Biology, Genetics and Evolution, Technological Advancement and Assistance, Futurism, Accusation, Inquisition, Litigation or Lawyers
6. Mars - Apollo, Destruction, Disease, Healing, Vibration, Sound, Light, Prophecy, Sight, Punishment, Pain, Redness, Inflammation, Decay, Deconstruction (see Imagine Dragons - Believer , a song which prominently uses the epithet of "Pain"!), Manifesting or Bringing About Results, Vengeance and Justice executed, Linked to Nergal.

These are the 7 major aspects at themes which make up our world House 0 or 7 can be considered the one Encompassing them all.

The 7 are also linked to colors (see The Desaturated Seven by Primus):
0. Black and Gold as well as Indigo
1. Blue and White and Orange
2. Blue-Green, Transparent, Yellow, White, Silver
3. Gray, Black, Violet, Purple, Dark Pink
4. Yellow-Orange, Electric Blue and White
5. Green and Pink and whitish blue or light blue and ivory, Patina, Wood, Brass or Dark Brown Metal
6. Red and White and Violet and Purple, Black and White, Copper, Rust, Reddish Metals

It isn't hard to imagine at least these very common themes and collections appearing repeatedly through human media and productions and throughout our ordinary day, experiences, and activities, constantly, even as we have existence and presence and place, breath in air (1), drink water (2), eat food (3) worked from the land or crops and animals, digest it (4) and talking to people and work and build and stay in shelters (structures and the square or box shape have to do with this 4th domain or theme quite often, it is also the Temple or House of Worship which is communication to God), Beautify and pursue Sexual interests and our drive for better comforts and other things likely tied closely to the sex drive and hormones (5) and philosophizing in our comfort and leisure, and hunting and pursuing and executing tasks and concerning ourselves with predictions and security and experiencing change which is necessarily made up of elimination and generation and then that moment is eliminated and a new one is generated in its place moment to moment (6) this is also the domain of the oracular and for example finding in music or even video games or anything in life we experience certain messages we may deem significant or special based on how we invest meaning into the information or components of the experience or the experience overall!

I think this Conan game and literature is actually very special for how it brings many things to mind even subconsciously and encourages the imagination and even spirituality through excitement with human cultures and conceptualizations regarding our reality!

I think there is a lot of fun to be had with these thoughts and their deeper explorations!

Additional Reading for the Interested:
An article which discusses Veles and Varuna which has some very useful information for those interested and one on Mitra:
http://sms.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/22/SMS_22_3_Ivankovic.pdf

http://sms.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/16/06-sms16-golema.pdf

Mitra–Varuna - Wikipedia

http://www.ijsrp.org/research_paper_may2012/ijsrp-may-2012-20.pdf

https://www.textroad.com/pdf/JBASR/J. Basic. Appl. Sci. Res., 2(7)6863-6871, 2012.pdf

An article which discusses Dagan as El and the source of Baal:
http://emp.byui.edu/SatterfieldB/Rel390R/Fur Further Study/Ugarit/DaganAndEl.pdf

Dagon - Wikipedia

Baal, Son of Dagan: In Search of Baal's Double Paternity, JAOS 133 (2013)

Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses - Dagan (god)

An article on Dan or Zan in Crete:
https://journals.openedition.org/kernos/pdf/711

Dan and the Serpent Way

Two Articles on Taboos in Food and Drink:
http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_4_No_13_November_2014/15.pdf

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3975&context=ocj

El:
https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/10686/1/fulltext.pdf

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1464&context=jbms

Dagan:
Towards the image of Dagon, the god of the Philistines - Persée

Temples:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9911/2cbe1bcc8c94c345e16bd3e0e56be00ad123.pdf

https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/dzo/artikel/201/125_201.pdf?t=1213949271

Iconography:
http://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/prepublications/e_idd_dagan.pdf

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1998JBAA..108....9R/0000009.000.html

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[crossfire]

The Flying Spaghetti Monster, except no worship.

 

[danieldemol]

@DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan Welcome to RF and thanks for creating the fun list.

Before I read the whole list i voted in the poll for Dragonwaters information/insight because I would not want to go through life as an ignoramus and Crom/Erlik afterlife because I would want my knowledge preserved forever

 

[Samael_Khan]

Hi, I recently wrote some comments on Youtube you may find interesting, but feel free to list and mention any others you may think of, but I mainly write out those from the Conan the Barbarian works.

"
So just out of interest, which of the Gods of Howard's Conan Universe (and feel free to throw in Lovecraft's as well since they were peers and throw in Game of Thrones while you're at it and Warhammer too why don't cha!) would you think is "real" or actually worship or follow and believe in? The Gods seem to be inspired by "real life" Gods as well as "real" aspects of life. Even Lovecraft's Gods seem analogous to some real deities and conceptsm, some of which are taken quite seriously today. In the films, it seems a variant if Dagon might have taken on the name Dagoth, similar to how Biblical deity names of "enemy gods" would take on "oth" like Ashtaroth for example.

Ajujo of the Black Kingdoms - Combat, Luck, Plague Male

Anu of Ophir - Fertility, Strength Male

Ashtoreth of Shem - Fertility, Protection Female

Asura of Vendhya, Iranistan - Healing, Illusion, Knowledge, Serpents Male

Bel of Zamora, Shem - Chaos, Death, Trickery

The Masked God Bori of Hyperborea - Strength, War Male

Crom of Cimmeria The Grim and Grey God

Dagon or Dagoth of Shem, Black Kingdoms -Protection, Water, Weather Male

Damballah of Zembabwei, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Serpents Male

Set of Stygia

Derketo of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Healing, Seduction Female
Derketa of the Black Kingdoms

Erlik of Turan, Hyrkania - Death, Knowledge, Prophecy Male

The God of the Yellow Hand of Death and the Golden Peacock of Shem - Blood, Trickery

Gwahlur of Keshan - Darkness, Prophecy Male The King of Darkness

Hanuman of Zamboula, Vendhya - Beast, Illusion, Knowledge Male
Lord of the Black Throne

Harakht, Hawk - God of Stygia - Animal, Knowledge, War Male

Ibis of Stygia, Nemedia - Knowledge, Magic, Protection Male

Ishtar of Shem, Koth, Khauran, Khoraja - Earth, Healing, Fertility, Seduction Female
Earth-Mother

Shub-Niggurath

Jhebbal Sag of Pictland, Black Kingdoms - Beast, Chaos, Strength Male Lord of Beasts

Jhil Ghanata of Darfar, Picts - Air, Law, Strength Male

Jullah of Black Kingdoms, Picts - Beast, Strength Male
Gullah of Pictland

Kali of Vendhya, Ghulistan - Death, Fertility, Healing, War Female
The Black Mother

Mitra of Western Kingdoms - Good, Healing, Protection, Sun Male

Nebethet of Punt - Death, Luck, Prophecy Female
The Ivory Goddess

Nergal of Shem - Destruction, Plague, War Male

Pteor of Shem - Air, Fertility, Strength Male

Adonis

Set of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Magic, Serpents, Weather Male Father Set, The Great Serpent,

Damballah of Black Kingdoms

Wiccana of Brythunia -Healing, Plant Female Nature Goddess

Xotli of Atlantis - Blood, Evil

Yajur of Kosala - Death, Prophecy

The God of Yota-Pong

Yama of Meru - Evil, Fire Male King of Devils

Ymir of Nordheim - Destruction, Strength, War Male The Frost Giant

Yog of Darfar, Zuagir - Bats, Blood, Darkness The Lord of Empty Abodes
Camazotz

Yun of Khitai - Guardian, Plant

Zath of Zamora - Darkness, Spiders or Omm, The Spider-God of Yezud

Deities and Demi-gods of the Hyborian Age

Nordheimr/Cimmerian Gods

Ymir the frost-giant - Nordheimr god

Atali - Ymir's Daughter, Nordheimr god

Frost Giants/Ice Giants - Ymir's Sons, Nordheimr gods

Cimmerian gods

Crom - Cimmerian god

Lir - Cimmerian god

Mannanan - Cimmerian god, son of Lir

Badb - Cimmerian war goddess

Morrigan - Cimmerian goddess of battle, strife, and fertility

Macha - Cimmerian goddess of war, horses, sovereignty

Nemain - Cimmerian goddess of the havoc of war

Diancecht

Dagda

Hyborian gods

Bori - Hyborian god, chief and king

Mitra - Hyborian god

Anu - Corinthian sky god

Fear - Hyborian god

Fate - Hyborian god

Ishtar - Hyborian goddess
/Shemitish fertility goddess

Death - Hyborian god

Time - Hyborian god

Darkness - Hyborian god

Light - Hyborian god

Night - Hyborian god

Nameless Old Ones - Hyborian gods

Nightmare - Hyborian god

Ahriman - Hyborian god/devil

Night of the World - Hyborian god

Stygian gods

Ibis - Stygian god of wisdom and the moon

Set - Stygian Serpent-god

Child of Set - Giant serpent with human head, Stygian god

Giant-Kings/Monster Kings - Pre-Stygian Race of gods

Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure

Shemitish gods

Bel - Zamoran god, god of thieves

Ishtar - Hyborian goddess/Shemitish fertility goddess

Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure

Ashtoreth - Shemitish goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war

Adonis - Shemitish god

Dagon - Shemitish fish god

Baal - Archeronian/ Shemitish god/demon

Devil - Shemitish god

Pteor - Pelishtim god

Vendhyan gods

Asura - Vendhyan god

Yizil - Vendhyan god

Kosalan god

Yajur - Kosalan god

Gods of the Black Kingdoms

Jullah - Ku****e god

Princess Yelaya - Alkmeenonian, Oracle of Alkmeenon, goddess to Keshan

Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Ku****e raven god

Ajujo, the Dark One - Ku****e god

Gwahlur - Keshani god

Derketa Queen of the Dead - Ku****e goddess

Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts

Ivory Woman of Punt

Hyrkanian gods

Yog Lord of the Empty Abodes - Hyrkanian demon god

Hanuman - Hykanian ape-god

Erlik - Hyrkanian god of death and the underworld

Tarim - Hyrkanian god

Zamorian god

Spider-god of Yezud

Pictish gods and demi-gods

Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts

Zogar Sag - Pict, Gwaweli tribe, Pictish wizard, shaman, Jhebbal Sag's son

Hairy One who lives on the moon - Pictish god

Gorilla-god of Gullah

Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Ku****e raven god

Children of Jhil - Pictish raven familiars

Khitan gods

Yag-Kosha/Yogah of Yag - Demon of the Elder World, from the green planet Yag worshiped by the Yellow-skulled priests of Yun

Yun - Khitan god

Other Gods and Demi-Gods

Gods of Yag

Thog - Xuthalan god, shadow monster

Khosatral Khel - Transmutated sorcerer, the ancient from the Abyss, Dagonian god

Ollam-onga - Vampire, god of Gazal

Dragon gods - gods of Xuchotl

Thaug - Giant shadowy monster worshipped by Taramis

Gods and Goddesses of the night worshipped by Taramis

Eve - Judeo/Christian progenitor
Blonde demigod

Blonde Demi-God's Father

Devil from the outer dark/bat

Demon worshipped by the brown women of The Vale of Lost Women

I chose Azathoth, because he isn't aware of what is happening in the universe as he is sleeping and the universe is a figment of his imagination, therefore I don't actually have to worship him because he doesn't care.

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

@DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan Welcome to RF and thanks for creating the fun list.

Before I read the whole list i voted in the poll for Dragonwaters information/insight because I would not want to go through life as an ignoramus and Crom/Erlik afterlife because I would want my knowledge preserved forever

Great choices! Yeah, the votes are unlimited! My choice tends to be Dagon and Crom as well! I enjoy the kind of slight pessimism involved with Crom which is a reflection of the brute realities and hardships of real life and how much difficulty cam be required to strive and make a legacy as Conan did, Crom's message and virtue is very much the inner hardness to face reality and toil and struggle against the odds to survive and win.

I'll show you two sets of videos if I'm permitted regarding Crom and Dagon (called Dagoth the Dreaming God in the second film)

I didn't want lots of videos to lag up the page so add an h to the beginning of the links as necessary!

Crom:
ttps://youtu.be/OBGOQ7SsJrw
ttps://youtu.be/eYTQvoKhHyM
ttps://youtu.be/W5K3AKl5qpc
ttps://youtu.be/_l9ouMdLf7c
(In the Qur'an Moloch may appear as the epithet Malik Yawmi Deen meaning King or Administrator-Judge of The Day of Judgment, Judge of the Living Dead)

Dagon:
ttps://youtu.be/IIGgfUocpi8
ttps://youtu.be/zNZZmbMvx8o
ttps://youtu.be/qrzSV6QXoGk
ttps://youtu.be/20jnznkj1Fo
ttps://youtu.be/pWScwW0pf5c
ttps://youtu.be/kFyCZFAdw5w
(Dagan is linked to El (perhaps now known as Allah) as they are both called the originator or source of Baal)

Mitra-Varuna (Knowledge/Water):

Vladimir Yatsenko Mitra-Varuna Lectures
1. ttps://youtu.be/y-sp8DEOsnc
2. ttps://youtu.be/s7Z2DFhog6U
3. ttps://youtu.be/4bO2fC8c2bk
4. ttps://youtu.be/jLgV-z5NtU4
5. ttps://youtu.be/0B6SAOgeUsE
6. ttps://youtu.be/r10lIOF4Cm4

There are also some nice articles linked above for anyone interested, I particularly like the one about Veles and Varuna, which combines in some senses aspects of Crom and Dagon.

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

I chose Azathoth, because he isn't aware of what is happening in the universe as he is sleeping and the universe is a figment of his imagination, therefore I don't actually have to worship him because he doesn't care.

Great choice! I think Azathoth combines the terms Azazel and Thoth as a "Demon" of the wastelands with Hermes Trismegestus, called Sultan to give it a Termagant Saracen flavor, in other words, some form of Exotic Mystic Gnostic Allah also mixed with Shakespeare's "Idiot God" of Chaos and Absurdity mentioned in a quote from Macbeth: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

The Qur'an also etymologically calls Allah "Daemon" as alotter and dispenser and "Sultan". The Necronomicon was supposed to be a book by Abdul Al Hazred

"Abd (عبد, meaning "Servant") and the definite prefix al / el (ال, meaning "the")."
"Persian: pronounced Hazret or Hazrat) is an honorific Arabic title used to honour a person. It literally denotes and translates to "presence, appearance". "
Abdullah meaning Servant of Allah.

The Servant of The Presence whose book is considered dire, exotic, maddening, and evil by outsiders, seems to be a kind of reference to the magical texts written in Arabic and sometimes moving around in secret circles but also the way the Qur'an was viewed by some as the Saracen's chief demonic text. Baphomet being the Occitan way of referring to Muhammed. In various poetic songs, the Gods of the Saracens were thought to be Termagant, Lucifer, and Apollyon, otherwise Tyr Mihtig in a Turban possibly represented by Jupiter, Venus the Morning and Evening Star, and Mars the Malefic Star of Destruction and Annhilation.

Some of the most amusing things seem to come out of polemics, racism, and creating and defining an enemy or to contrast certain things to create a monstrous "other".

 

[Samael_Khan]

Great choice! I think Azathoth combines the terms Azazel and Thoth as a "Demon" of the wastelands with Hermes Trismegestus, called Sultan to give it a Termagant Saracen flavor, in other words, some form of Exotic Mystic Gnostic Allah also mixed with Shakespeare's "Idiot God" of Chaos and Absurdity mentioned in a quote from Macbeth: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

The Qur'an also etymologically calls Allah "Daemon" as alotter and dispenser and "Sultan". The Necronomicon was supposed to be a book by Abdul Al Hazred

"Abd (عبد, meaning "Servant") and the definite prefix al / el (ال, meaning "the")."
"Persian: pronounced Hazret or Hazrat) is an honorific Arabic title used to honour a person. It literally denotes and translates to "presence, appearance". "
Abdullah meaning Servant of Allah.

The Servant of The Presence whose book is considered dire, exotic, maddening, and evil by outsiders, seems to be a kind of reference to the magical texts written in Arabic and sometimes moving around in secret circles but also the way the Qur'an was viewed by some as the Saracen's chief demonic text. Baphomet being the Occitan way of referring to Muhammed. In various poetic songs, the Gods of the Saracens were thought to be Termagant, Lucifer, and Apollyon, otherwise Tyr Mihtig in a Turban possibly represented by Jupiter, Venus the Morning and Evening Star, and Mars the Malefic Star of Destruction and Annhilation.

Some of the most amusing things seem to come out of polemics, racism, and creating and defining an enemy or to contrast certain things to create a monstrous "other".

I knew about the roots of Azathoth being a combination of those mythical beings but I wasn't aware that Shakespeare is the reference for the term Idiot God.

Does the Quran call Alah "daemon"?

How did you come to know these things so indepth? Do you study fictional mythos?

 

[Heyo]

I know very little about those gods, so I can't contribute to the discussion. I only wanted to say that "fictional deities" is a tautology.

 

[ChristineM]

The only goddess that is meaningful to me is not mentioned in your list and that is Anoia.

I whisper, speak and occasionally shout one of my special incantations to the goddess
How can it close on the damned thing but not open with it?
Who bought this anyway?
Do we ever use it?

And the goddess of things that get stuck in draws will listen
https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Amonia

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

I study the development and evolution of ideas and concepts pretty carefully, tracing a lot of themes and looking also at the potential influences and relations to get an overview of the sort of network and web of ideas that can permeate culture and art. Allah is not called Daemon directly but is referred to in ways or has functions that relate to what is thought to be the etymological meaning of the term: "from PIE *dai-mon- "divider, provider" (of fortunes or destinies), from root *da- "to divide." "

The angels in the Qur'an are said to have multiple "wings" but the word actually used is "hands" and the same word is used if Moses' hand for example, meaning the angels are said to have multiple appendages, and to circle around a throne making constant sounds of praise, the depiction being similar to the visuals present in Lovecraft's writing on Azathoth.

Sultan:
"originally "power, dominion." According to Klein's sources, this is from Aramaic shultana "power," from shelet "have power."

It is used a few times in the Qur'an:
The Quranic Arabic Corpus - Quran Dictionary

The Quranic Arabic Corpus - Translation

"Lovecraft described his planned novel as a "weird Eastern tale in the 18th century manner" and as a "weird Vathek-like novel", referring to a novel of Arabia written byWilliam Thomas Beckford in 1786.[2]Suggesting that his story would involve "material of the Arabian Nights type"

"
Another note Lovecraft made to himself later in 1919 refers to an idea for a story: "A terrible pilgrimage to seek the nighted throne of the far daemon-sultan Azathoth."[5] In a letter toFrank Belknap Long, Lovecraft ties this plot germ to Vathek, a novel by William Beckfordabout a supernatural caliph.[6] Lovecraft's attempts to work this idea into a novel foundered (a 500-word fragment survives, first published under the title "Azathoth"[7] in the journal Leaves in 1938),[8] although Lovecraftian scholar Will Murray suggests that Lovecraft recycled the idea into hisDream Cycle novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, written in 1926.[9]

Price sees another inspiration for Azathoth inLord Dunsany's Mana-Yood-Sushai, from The Gods of Pegana, a creator deity "who made the gods and thereafter rested." In Dunsany's conception, MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI sleeps eternally, lulled by the music of a lesser deity who must drum forever, "for if he cease for an instant then MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI will start awake, and there will be worlds nor gods no more." This oblivious creator god accompanied by supernatural musicians is a clear prototype for Azathoth, Price argues.[10] "

"
Aside from the title of the novel fragment, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath was the first fiction by Lovecraft to mention Azathoth:

[O]utside the ordered universe [is] that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.[11]

Lovecraft referred to Azathoth again in "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1931), where the narrator relates that he "started with loathing when told of the monstrous nuclear chaosbeyond angled space which theNecronomicon had mercifully cloaked under the name of Azathoth".[12][13] Here "nuclear" most likely refers to Azathoth's central location at the nucleus of the cosmos and not to nuclear energy, which did not truly come of age until after Lovecraft's death.

In "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1932), the protagonist Walter Gilman dreams that he is told by the witch Keziah Mason that "He must meet the Black Man, and go with them all to the throne of Azathoth at the centre of ultimate Chaos.... He must sign in his own blood the book of Azathoth and take a new secret name.... What kept him from going with her...to the throne of Chaos where the thin flutes pipe mindlessly was the fact that he had seen the name 'Azathoth' in theNecronomicon, and knew it stood for a primal horror too horrible for description."[14] Gilman wakes from another dream remembering "the thin, monotonous piping of an unseen flute", and decides that "he had picked up that last conception from what he had read in theNecronomicon about the mindless entity Azathoth, which rules all time and space from a curiously environed black throne at the centre of Chaos".[15] He later fears finding himself "in the spiral black vortices of that ultimate void of Chaos wherein reigns the mindless daemon-sultan Azathoth".[16]

The poet Edward Pickman Derby, the protagonist of Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep", is a poet whose collection of "nightmare lyrics" is called Azathoth and Other Horrors.[17]

The last major reference in Lovecraft's fiction to Azathoth was in 1935's "The Haunter of the Dark", which tells of "the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demonic flute held in nameless paws".[18] "

Termagant - Wikipedia

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

Part 2:
The term Lord of All Things is mentioned prominently in the Qur'an as an epithet of Allah as "Rabb il Alameen" it is usually translated as "Lord of the Worlds" or "Master of the Universe" but means "Master of All Distinguished/Distinct/Partitioned/Separated Things" meaning the things we make distinctions about or all categories and every single thing in each and every category.

The Rabb il Alameen theme has an Oceanic or "Lord of the Waters" of all information type underlying theme or impression to it. In the 7 Oft Repeated Verses" of Al-Fatihah, there are 7 general epithets or themes invoked which also relate to the popular elements and planets which were significant to the thinking of audiences hearing the Qur'an, and instead of dividing these domains and activities to different figures, all these are depicted as functions and activities of the One manifesting variously or responsible for it all.

The 7 Verses are:

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bismi -llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi
/bis.mi ‿l.laː.hi‌ ‿r.raħ.maː.ni ‿r.ra.ħiː.mi/ In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Especially-Merciful.



1 ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَالَمِينَ

ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ ʾal-ḥamdu li-llāhi rabbi l-ʿālamīna/ʔal.ħam.du lil.laː.hi rab.bi ‿l.ʕaː.la.miː.na/ Praise is due to Allah, lord of all the worlds,



2 ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ʾar-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi
/ʔar.raħ.maː.ni ‿r.ra.ħiː.mi/ The All-Merciful, the Especially-Merciful,



3 مَالِكِ يَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ
مَٰلِكِ يَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ māliki yawmi d-dīni/maː.li.ki jaw.mi ‿d.diː.ni/ Master of the Day of Retribution.



4 إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ ʾīyāka naʿbudu wa-ʾīyāka nastaʿīna
/ʔij.jaː.ka naʕ.bu.du wa.ʔij.jaː.ka nas.ta.ʕiː.nu/ You [alone] do we worship, and to You [alone] do we turn for help.



5 ٱهْدِنَا ٱلصِّرَاطَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ
ٱهْدِنَا ٱلصِّرَٰطَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ‌ ʾihdinā ṣ-ṣirāṭa l-mustaqīma/ʔih.di.na ‿sˤ.sˤi.raː.tˤa ‿l.mus.ta.qiː.ma/ Guide us on the straight path,



6 صِرَاطَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا ٱلضَّالِّينَ
صِرَٰطَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا ٱلضَّالِّينَ ṣirāṭa l-laḏīna ʾanʿamta ʿalayhim ġayri l-maġḍūbi ʿalayhim wa-lā ḍ-ḍāllīna/sˤi.raː.tˤa ‿l.la.ðiː.na ʔan.ʕam.ta ʕa.laj.him ɣaj.ri ‿l.maɣ.dˤuː.bi ʕa.laj.him wa.la ‿dˤ.dˤaːl.liː.na/ the path of those whom You have blessed—such as have not incurred Your wrath, nor are astray.

post صَدَقَ ٱللَّٰهُ ٱلْعَلِيُّ ٱلْعَظِيمُ

ṣadaqa -llāhu l-ʿalīyu l-ʿaẓīmu
/sˤa.da.qa ‿ɫ.ɫaː.hu ‿l.ʕa.lij.ju ‿l.ʕa.ðˤiː.mu/ God, the Exalted, the Great, has spoken the truth.


1. RHM Rahman (Rimmon) means dispenser of rahm which is like mercy, grace, benefit, and was associated with the rain and thunder. Raheem is the passive form which means holder of the store of rahm or treasures of benefit and water, like how clouds store water or how the ocean stores food and treasures like pearls. These are both heavily linked to the sky, with Raheem being intermediate and not only linked to the treasury of the heavens and burdens of value held in the clouds but also the ocean. This would be Baal in Ugaritic

2. Rabb il Alameen, this is a reference that can be thought of as the whole of reality as a sort of Ocean of Information, which the Qur'an emphasizes by the suggestion that all things are "words" spoken or recorded into existence by Allah and Allah's power to make "Be and it Be" (Kun Fiya Kun), but then linking the idea of words to liquid through "ink" and saying: "31:27
And if all trees that are on the earth were to be pens, and the ocean (converted into ink) is supported by seven seas following it, the words of Allah would not come to an end. Surely, Allah is Mighty, Wise. "

So the "reality" itself made of "words" or communicative and referential "information" was linked to water as substance, making the Master of All Things an Oceanic type theme or link in the literate cultural context, not dissimilar to some praise and thoughts regarding the Vedic concept of Varuna or otherwise aquatic linkage to knowledge in Ea or even Dagan. This would also be Yam in Ugaritic.

3. MLK Malik (Molech) Yawmi Deen is the Judge of the Dead, the Yama or Hades aspect who decrees the terms and end and results. This would be Mot in Ugaritic.

4. "Worshipped" "Helper" with worship as communication sent as a message and signal or transmission and Help being what is sought typically in reply, this pertains to the "Friend" aspect which the Greeks called Hermes and relates to fire also which was used frequently as imagined to be a device for communication. Following these elementally. 1 as the Sky, 2 as the Waters which rest above the Earth, 3 as the ground and earth, 4 as the fire under or at the center of the Earth and the crossing over, then it flips back up to the surface of the Earth again, but this time produced from it, in 5 which is growth and sexual reproduction.

5. Qama meaning Erect or Upright, it was related also to Asherah as the aspect which generates and sets things straight and upright, even ascending and evolving towards good and better.

6. The Wrath, which was originally associated with the planet Mars and called by some Aplu which for the Greeks became the original Apollo as reckoner and avenger. This distress and destruction is imposed "on top" or "upon" the living creatures, so just like water is over Earth, Pain is over Growth as its point of termination as well as transformation or change which requires both generation and elimination of the prior moment to make room for the next active moment.

These are mentioned and may vaguely reflect the seven forces which were prominently important in the very astral beliefs and thinking of the populace receiving the Qur'an who seem to have retained both very ancient Akkadian language elements and notions and these included emphasis on the themes related to the "seven wandering stars" or Heavenly bodies they associated with a number of themes.

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

I know very little about those gods, so I can't contribute to the discussion. I only wanted to say that "fictional deities" is a tautology.

Yeah, they aren't fictional to me anyway though they are used in the stories of Rober E. Howard which are categorized as fictional. Each of them seems to have had some real world basis as well. Please feel free to write out more on the term "tautology". You do know about the 7 major themes at least since they make up our world, are you into any particularly? Like water or information for example?

 

[Spirit of Light]

Hi, I recently wrote some comments on Youtube you may find interesting, but feel free to list and mention any others you may think of, but I mainly write out those from the Conan the Barbarian works.

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So just out of interest, which of the Gods of Howard's Conan Universe (and feel free to throw in Lovecraft's as well since they were peers and throw in Game of Thrones while you're at it and Warhammer too why don't cha!) would you think is "real" or actually worship or follow and believe in? The Gods seem to be inspired by "real life" Gods as well as "real" aspects of life. Even Lovecraft's Gods seem analogous to some real deities and conceptsm, some of which are taken quite seriously today. In the films, it seems a variant if Dagon might have taken on the name Dagoth, similar to how Biblical deity names of "enemy gods" would take on "oth" like Ashtaroth for example.

Ajujo of the Black Kingdoms - Combat, Luck, Plague Male

Anu of Ophir - Fertility, Strength Male

Ashtoreth of Shem - Fertility, Protection Female

Asura of Vendhya, Iranistan - Healing, Illusion, Knowledge, Serpents Male

Bel of Zamora, Shem - Chaos, Death, Trickery

The Masked God Bori of Hyperborea - Strength, War Male

Crom of Cimmeria The Grim and Grey God

Dagon or Dagoth of Shem, Black Kingdoms -Protection, Water, Weather Male

Damballah of Zembabwei, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Serpents Male

Set of Stygia

Derketo of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Healing, Seduction Female
Derketa of the Black Kingdoms

Erlik of Turan, Hyrkania - Death, Knowledge, Prophecy Male

The God of the Yellow Hand of Death and the Golden Peacock of Shem - Blood, Trickery

Gwahlur of Keshan - Darkness, Prophecy Male The King of Darkness

Hanuman of Zamboula, Vendhya - Beast, Illusion, Knowledge Male
Lord of the Black Throne

Harakht, Hawk - God of Stygia - Animal, Knowledge, War Male

Ibis of Stygia, Nemedia - Knowledge, Magic, Protection Male

Ishtar of Shem, Koth, Khauran, Khoraja - Earth, Healing, Fertility, Seduction Female
Earth-Mother

Shub-Niggurath

Jhebbal Sag of Pictland, Black Kingdoms - Beast, Chaos, Strength Male Lord of Beasts

Jhil Ghanata of Darfar, Picts - Air, Law, Strength Male

Jullah of Black Kingdoms, Picts - Beast, Strength Male
Gullah of Pictland

Kali of Vendhya, Ghulistan - Death, Fertility, Healing, War Female
The Black Mother

Mitra of Western Kingdoms - Good, Healing, Protection, Sun Male

Nebethet of Punt - Death, Luck, Prophecy Female
The Ivory Goddess

Nergal of Shem - Destruction, Plague, War Male

Pteor of Shem - Air, Fertility, Strength Male

Adonis

Set of Stygia, Shem, Black Kingdoms - Death, Evil, Magic, Serpents, Weather Male Father Set, The Great Serpent,

Damballah of Black Kingdoms

Wiccana of Brythunia -Healing, Plant Female Nature Goddess

Xotli of Atlantis - Blood, Evil

Yajur of Kosala - Death, Prophecy

The God of Yota-Pong

Yama of Meru - Evil, Fire Male King of Devils

Ymir of Nordheim - Destruction, Strength, War Male The Frost Giant

Yog of Darfar, Zuagir - Bats, Blood, Darkness The Lord of Empty Abodes
Camazotz

Yun of Khitai - Guardian, Plant

Zath of Zamora - Darkness, Spiders or Omm, The Spider-God of Yezud

Deities and Demi-gods of the Hyborian Age

Nordheimr/Cimmerian Gods

Ymir the frost-giant - Nordheimr god

Atali - Ymir's Daughter, Nordheimr god

Frost Giants/Ice Giants - Ymir's Sons, Nordheimr gods

Cimmerian gods

Crom - Cimmerian god

Lir - Cimmerian god

Mannanan - Cimmerian god, son of Lir

Badb - Cimmerian war goddess

Morrigan - Cimmerian goddess of battle, strife, and fertility

Macha - Cimmerian goddess of war, horses, sovereignty

Nemain - Cimmerian goddess of the havoc of war

Diancecht

Dagda

Hyborian gods

Bori - Hyborian god, chief and king

Mitra - Hyborian god

Anu - Corinthian sky god

Fear - Hyborian god

Fate - Hyborian god

Ishtar - Hyborian goddess
/Shemitish fertility goddess

Death - Hyborian god

Time - Hyborian god

Darkness - Hyborian god

Light - Hyborian god

Night - Hyborian god

Nameless Old Ones - Hyborian gods

Nightmare - Hyborian god

Ahriman - Hyborian god/devil

Night of the World - Hyborian god

Stygian gods

Ibis - Stygian god of wisdom and the moon

Set - Stygian Serpent-god

Child of Set - Giant serpent with human head, Stygian god

Giant-Kings/Monster Kings - Pre-Stygian Race of gods

Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure

Shemitish gods

Bel - Zamoran god, god of thieves

Ishtar - Hyborian goddess/Shemitish fertility goddess

Derketo - Shemitish/Stygian sea-goddess of pleasure

Ashtoreth - Shemitish goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war

Adonis - Shemitish god

Dagon - Shemitish fish god

Baal - Archeronian/ Shemitish god/demon

Devil - Shemitish god

Pteor - Pelishtim god

Vendhyan gods

Asura - Vendhyan god

Yizil - Vendhyan god

Kosalan god

Yajur - Kosalan god

Gods of the Black Kingdoms

Jullah - Ku****e god

Princess Yelaya - Alkmeenonian, Oracle of Alkmeenon, goddess to Keshan

Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Ku****e raven god

Ajujo, the Dark One - Ku****e god

Gwahlur - Keshani god

Derketa Queen of the Dead - Ku****e goddess

Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts

Ivory Woman of Punt

Hyrkanian gods

Yog Lord of the Empty Abodes - Hyrkanian demon god

Hanuman - Hykanian ape-god

Erlik - Hyrkanian god of death and the underworld

Tarim - Hyrkanian god

Zamorian god

Spider-god of Yezud

Pictish gods and demi-gods

Jhebbal Sag - ancient deity of men and beasts

Zogar Sag - Pict, Gwaweli tribe, Pictish wizard, shaman, Jhebbal Sag's son

Hairy One who lives on the moon - Pictish god

Gorilla-god of Gullah

Jhil - Aphaki god, Pictish/Ku****e raven god

Children of Jhil - Pictish raven familiars

Khitan gods

Yag-Kosha/Yogah of Yag - Demon of the Elder World, from the green planet Yag worshiped by the Yellow-skulled priests of Yun

Yun - Khitan god

Other Gods and Demi-Gods

Gods of Yag

Thog - Xuthalan god, shadow monster

Khosatral Khel - Transmutated sorcerer, the ancient from the Abyss, Dagonian god

Ollam-onga - Vampire, god of Gazal

Dragon gods - gods of Xuchotl

Thaug - Giant shadowy monster worshipped by Taramis

Gods and Goddesses of the night worshipped by Taramis

Eve - Judeo/Christian progenitor
Blonde demigod

Blonde Demi-God's Father

Devil from the outer dark/bat

Demon worshipped by the brown women of The Vale of Lost Women

I am not sure why I should pick a fictional deity to follow when there are countless real once we already can follow, and learn from.

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

I am not sure why I should pick a fictional deity to follow when there are countless real once we already can follow, and learn from.

Pick any, even those ones you are mentioning. These mentioned here also are derived from real world ones.

 

[Spirit of Light]

Pick any, even those ones you are mentioning. These mentioned here also are derived from real world ones.

Can I ask why you in the OP state "Fictional deities" if you see them as real?
None of the above in your list is someone I can choose, because I already follow Li Hongzhi and his teaching. By the way, I hardly know any of those on your list anyway.

 

[Flame]

Crom!

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

Can I ask why you in the OP state "Fictional deities" if you see them as real?
None of the above in your list is someone I can choose, because I already follow Li Hongzhi and his teaching. By the way, I hardly know any of those on your list anyway.

I use the term "fictional" since they or their cults are described in "fictionalized" ways in the "fictional" Universe (which is also supposed to be based on our world in ancient times), of Robert E. Howard who created the Conan the Barbarian series of stories. Likewise I mention Game of Thrones and H. P. Lovecraft (Lovecraft was another writer who kept in touch with Robert E. Howard), all these writers sort of refer to fictionalized religions based somewhat on real cultures or Gods that might correspond in our history and timeline but they relate to fictional works and are found in works of fiction, in fictionalized form, being worshipped by fictional characters.

Perhaps ironically, in the Bible and Qur'an, God is likened in some senses to a "writer" and "artisan" or craftsperson who creates and authors whatever things into existence, good or bad, which would make you and I and alm the Gods you do know of in our world as also the fictions or inventions of God in God's literature of life.

For someone who follows "Li Hongzhi", it might be Asura or something associated to one of the far Eastern ethnic groups in the world of Conan that you may have had an affinity or preference towards.

So, I consider these "Fictional" or "Fictionalized deities" that exist in the "Fictional writings of" Robert E. Howard about a "Fictional World" filled with "Fictional factions and individuals" but that these were each based on deities from our world and history and even if their names and identities were more completely obscured, that they would likely fall into one of 6 or 7 categories which are typical and repeatedly used by human beings.

Those 6 or 7 categories are:
0-7. God of Everything or Central Pole Authority
1. God of the Heavens or Sky and Air and Weather
2. God of the Waters and Knowledge
3. God of the Earth and Underworld and Judge of the Dead
4. God of Fire and Human Industry and Communication
5. God of Growth, Greenery, Vegetation, Sex, Life, Femininity, Beauty, Lust, Attraction
6. God of Destruction, Disease, Plague, Harm, Vengeance, Wrath, Retribution, Anger, War, Revelation, Apocalypse

These 7 categories repeat among the above, and these 7 repeat among our historical deities, and these 7 also repeat throughout life, our daily activities, and the media we consume as well.

Some called these 7 repeated elements which make up our lives and are associated with numerous symbols and activities that are linked together and are linked to the colors of the Rainbow, the 7 Musical Notes, the Sun, Jupiter, Moon, Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Mars, as "Archons" or "Ruling Powers" and that together these forces make up one Abraxas or Abrasax.

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

One great thing about this forum so far is that it seems more fast paced and active than some others I've visited!

I'm hoping to bring more attention to this poll and thread! Please tell your friends to vote too! I want to see what excites or fascinates people and invigorates them to imagine themselves doing or being!

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

Here is something I wrote in a comment regarding Lovecraft's monsterous pantheon:

"Plus generally nothing could really capture the abstract horror that Lovecraft seems to try to build up to and never very clearly depicts, because a full and clear depiction sort of kills it and deadens it, like "oh ok its just that". Part of Lovecraftian horror is supposed to be the "Sublime" a kind of total indescribable awe generated by the sight of something so vast in its terrible dimensions and senses that it can scarcely be comprehended or repeated, and often this takes the form in things with the names of God or considered God and made up of nature and natural things and worshipped by primalistic or otherwise exotic cults, so there is a sense of Antique and Eastern mysticism about it all as well, which often has the idea of the indescribable mysterious and encompassing totality of forces which are beyond the rational and orderly, "rational and orderly" = literaly depicted and defined, thus comprehensible.