god wanted: previous applicants need not apply

[purplerabbits]

Because I am strange (which will have to do you because I can't be arsed explaining just now) I worship (fsvo 'worship') a different god every year, changing over at Beltaine. I need a god for next year. This year was Seshet, Egyptian goddess of writing and scribes. Next year I want someone more fun, someone who does dance and drugs, maybe, and it's allowed to be male, since I seem to tend to alternate gods and goddesses, though that's not obligatory. In the past I've had Isis, Astarte, Eris, and Ganesh, amoung others.

So, any suggestions? Applicants should provide a URL, if at all possible...

Comments

[jilicious.livejournal.com]

All I have to say is that you're the only LJ user with Ngaio Marsh in your interests, aside from myself, and the fact that you mentioned Dorothy L Sayers as well makes me come very close to saying "I love you". So rock on, sister, rock on.

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

Applicants should provide a URL, if at all possible...

"Click here to download selected god"

[aegidian]

Cthulhu? The stars are so almost right!

Silly - but I thought you might like it...

[aegidian]

Do You Hear the Pipes, Cthulhu?
Author: Terence Chua
Tune:? Fernando by ABBA



Do you hear the pipes, Cthulhu?
They were being played by shoggoths on the shores of Carcosa
Can you hear our prayers, Cthulhu?
Deep in sunken R'lyeh waiting for the rightness of a star?
Where the Deep Ones worship Dagon, Mother Hydra in sea chambers built
afar?

Chorus:
There was chanting in the air that night
The stars were right, Cthulhu!
You were dreaming of your destiny
Beneath the sea, Cthulhu!
Though the Elder Gods have cast you down
Have no regret
As the Al-Azif has prophesized, R'lyeh will rise, Cthulhu!

We are waiting O Cthulhu
Sacrificing virgins while the nightgaunts hover 'gainst the moon
Seeking power O Cthulhu
Drawing sigils in their blood and Elder Signs and other runes
They were dying drenched in madness and the eldritch vapors of a
thousand dooms
(chorus)

You are sleeping Great Cthulhu
Never knowing the unspeakable things we do in your name
But don't worry Great Cthulhu
We will carry on destroying without sanity or shame
Till the universe resounds with all the sounds of lost souls shrieking
out in pain
(chorus)

As the Al-Azif has prophesized, R'lyeh will rise, Cthulhu!


Lyrics (C) 1999 by Terence Chua

[jinxremoving.livejournal.com]

dionysus or bacchus, although that's maybe a pretty obvious choice.

or you could go for norse god loki. he's cool. i haven't looked for any URLs, but i have some nice books on mythology ...

btw, when is beltane? i forget (but i am so going).

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

Bast feels appropriate...I remain devoted to Kali, the bitch has her hooks in me good....

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[skx.livejournal.com]

Good call with Bast.

get your gods here...

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

How about:

Brigit - Ireland; goddess of agriculture, fire, healing, inspiration, learning divination, occult knowledge, poetry, prophecy, smithcraft. Her Gaelic name of Breo-saighead means "fiery arrow" or "fiery power." Celts often referred to her as being three in one - the Triple Brigits or the Three Mothers. An ever-burning fire was kept in her honor by her nineteen priestesses who lived in a sacred temple at Kildare. She was also a daughter of the Dagda. Variants: Brid, Brig, Brigid, Brighid

She was turned into a saint but is being reclaimed by neo-pagans.

or:

The Dagda - Ireland; god of the arts, knowledge, magic, music, prophecy, prosperity, regeneration. Known as the "Good God" and "Lord of the Heavens," he was one of the high kings of the Tuatha De Danann and had four great palaces under hollow hills. Of his children, the most important are Brigit, Angus, Midir, Ogma and Bodb the Red. His magical cauldron had an inexhaustible supply of food and his oak harp made the seasons change.

I like the sound of the inexhaustible food supply, myself.

or:

Morrigan - Ireland, Wales, Britain; a shapeshifting war goddess of lust, magic, prophecy, revenge, war. Known as Great Queen, Supreme War Goddess, Queen of Phantoms, and Specter Queen, she kept company with Fea (hateful), Badb (fury), and Macha (battle). Variants: Morrigu, Morrighan, Morgan.

Might be an overly exciting year with her, though.

All quotes from here. (http://www.crosswinds.net/~daire/names/deities.html)

[coracaskia.livejournal.com]

I tend to let them find me ...

however, for drugs and partying, Dionysus/Bacchus would be appropriate, though he does have a rather darker side as well - no urls, but I could probably come up with a booklist ...

most of the Norse pantheon seem to fit the given specification, too, come to think of it ...