Apparently coming up with your own pantheon is hard… who knew?

[RepresentingDesire]

Goddess of systems and power?

P.S I mean the scientific definition of power and systems

 

[Deleted member 128077]

As someone in a polytheistic religion, I cheat and simply rename my own Gods.

 

[AdmiralofDestitution]

Goddess of Love and Hate or Jealousy

 

[Clo]

I have 16 in my setting. 2 per element, one male, one female. 8 elements.
Often there's some thematic overlap.
Like Umbra (Darkness, male) is the god of secrets (and is all about keep things secret)
While his sister Nocture is the goddess of mysteries. She's all about leading people on to solve puzzles and find the truth.

Which is thematically tied to Astrallius, the god of truth and Revelation. Unlike Nocturne, who will make you work it, Astrallius wants to simply illuminate everything.

Don't be afraid to have overlap or conflicting ethos!

 

[SurfAngel_1031]

Goddess of systems and power?

P.S I mean the scientific definition of power and systems

What are you having issues with? I mean a pantheon is nothing but a collection of gods / goddesses and what they favor. Most of that work has been done over the thousands of human lives.

Just mirror what you need for basic things like war and love, but if you have something unique like the goddess of vampires - develop that big time

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Oh, one thing that helped me when I was developing one for my fantasy world, was realizing that a lot of the gods in actual mythologies seem to share "portfolios" and a few seem to be "reskinned" versions of each other. This is especially true of European ones (and a lot of the Middle Eastern ones literally borrowed from each other, but often made the gods they borrowed the "bad guys" and their own the "good guys"), and fictional ones but seems to be across all mythologies - so much so that one RPG product, the gods sourcebook for the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting for AD&D and then 3e D&D actually made use of it, that there were only 50 or so gods, but several hundred names for them, and some cultures even gave the gods different appearances but, no matter what you called him, the Keyholder (God of Magic) was the same actual entity, as was The Strategist (God of Order in Battle), or the Liberator (God of freedom/antislavery) or the Overseer (Archenemy of The Liberator), etc. Each race and culture saw them differently but they recognized most or all of them in some form.
So you may not need that many actual deities, just multiple names for the same one or for Aspects of the same one (a God of Healing and Mercy in one culture, like Chinese Kuan-Yin, may be viewed as two separate gods in another - a specific god of Healing and another god of Mercy, but they're actually the same being ultimately).

 

[RepresentingDesire]

What are you having issues with? I mean a pantheon is nothing but a collection of gods / goddesses and what they favor. Most of that work has been done over the thousands of human lives.

Just mirror what you need for basic things like war and love, but if you have something unique like the goddess of vampires - develop that big time

The concept of system is very close aligned to the concept of order and nature, if we wanted to do an religious accurate pantheon you could literally do a god for every object and concept. At least the pantheons I know of had many small deities..

 

[OokamiKasumi]

Currently I am working on putting together my own pantheon and non LitRPG power system but it’s a bit harder than I thought it would be… so far I have 6/7 gods I wanted in my pantheon and I think it’s going well… until I get to putting together the lore XD
Here are the gods I have so far!

Nobel King of the Gods, God if Wisdom and Order.
Harmony Queen of the Gods, Goddess of the Balance.
Forge God of Innovation and Industry
Geo God of Nature
Malroth God of War and Death
- Goddess of Fate
- Goddess of -

I am trying to come up with a 7th one that will be a goddess but I’m stuck tryna figure out what she will be the goddess of. At first I thought Love and Families but I don’t think that really fits in the plot… The gods will pop up in chapter one so this is why I’m delaying it for so long

Have you tried looking at Existing pantheons and why those cultures developed those particular god forms? In other words, if you know what your culture values, creating gods for it is obvious.

Examples:
Because Greece had a highly developed culture where Music, Literature, and Science were valued, they had a whole sub-pantheon; the 9 Muses, to represent the Arts and Sciences.

Because Violent Ritual Death was an almost daily part of the Aztec culture, they had gods to represent the many different kinds of ritual death: disembowelment, burning while alive, flaying, entombment, blood-letting, exsanguination...and so on. Even their fertility goddess was a god of Death.

Because Ireland valued war and poetry, one of their main war goddesses, Morrighan, blesses both Heroes and Poets with brilliant, but short, lives.

Because the Native Americans prize both humor and cleverness, they have two trickster gods: Raven and Coyote.

What does your culture Value?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Because Violent Ritual Death was an almost daily part of the Aztec culture, they had gods to represent the many different kinds of ritual death: disembowelment, burning while alive, flaying, entombment, blood-letting, exsanguination...and so on. Even their fertility goddess was a god of Death.

Their chief god was the sun itself, Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror - the source of life and the bloodiest of blood soaked gods. His chief rival for control of the pantheon was an outsider (and possibly a real person - a scholar from the one native American tribe with pale hair and gray eyes), Quetzalcoatl, a bringer of science and wisdom (who was also a skilled warrior who opposed the degree of human sacrifice - not the fact, just the quantity - in their culture).

Because the Native Americans prize both humor and cleverness, they have two trickster gods: Raven and Coyote.

Not the best example - first of all Raven appears in at least three different pantheons, but is only a trickster in one. Second, Tricksters, under multiple names, are part of several pantheons. Manobozho of the Ojibway, for example. And some of the plains tribes did not have a specific deity for it but had a class of holy people, generally referred to either by the Hopi name of heyoki or by the European term "sacred clowns" who fulfilled the roll of tricksters but were mortal agents of the spirits, not divine beings themselves.
Actually, the Trickster is one of the most common divine archetypes - Pan of the Greek Pantheon, Loge (Loki) of the Norse, the Djinni (though they are a class of Trickster spirits - the "good" version of the Efrits, or demons) of the pre-Abrahamic Middle-Eastern religions, the moon and storm god Susanuwoo (sp.?) of the Japanese pantheon (who caused the first Solar Eclipse by defecating in the foyer of the house of his sister, the sun goddess Ameterasu, who had to hide her face in shame until she could get the mess cleaned up)...

 

[OokamiKasumi]

Goddess of Love and Hate or Jealousy

In Haitian Voodoo, the loa (spirit/god/power) Erzulie embodies love, passion, and jealousy. Erzulie is a triple goddess, with different aspects:
-- Erzulie Fréda, a gentle and benevolent figure associated with love and beauty.
-- Erzulie Dantò, the fierce and passionate loa of jealousy and power.
-- La Sirène, the sea goddess and symbol of motherhood.

In the classical world, Aphrodite, the Greek goddess, and Venus, the Roman version, also embody Romantic Love and jealousy, with Hera; Greek, and Juno; Roman, embodying the love and jealousy of Wives.
-- Aphrodite for lover angst.
-- Hera for spousal issues.

In Irish mythology, several goddesses are associated with love and jealousy, including Clíodhna, Étaín, and Beira, among others.
-- Clíodhna is a goddess of love and beauty.
-- Étaín is known for her "passion" and "jealousy" as implied by her name Wikipedia.
-- Beira embodies the powerful and sometimes vengeful aspects of a mother's love and protection.

Just to name a few.