Mythology...

Well I am a HUGE religion/mythology/culture/belief/tradition freak! I love them its my dream to learn as much as I can about them before I die.

So what I want you to do is pick a God/Goddess from the list below and write something:
**for them
**about them
**about something that they did
**What you see in them
**What you like about them
**What you dislike about them
**What you wish they would have done
**Something to better them
**Something about their followers
**How they came about
**How they died or if they died


Anything around there. Whatever comes to you write about it.
You can enter up to 3 poems.

If you want to use a God/Goddess from a different culture please message me and let me know which.

RULES:

1)I despise chat talk in poems so please.. don't use it.
2)NO BASHING
3)Please don't use sticky caps it pisses me off.
4)Erotica is fine... use it all you want.
5)Cursing is fine just don't make it all cussing.
6)I don't like doing finalists If you win you'll know when the contest is over

Here is a list on some Gods and Goddesses

Greek

Aphrodite- Goddess of love and beauty, forced wife of Hephaestus. Ares is her main lover. Known as the most beautiful of the goddesses.

Apollo- God of the music, prophecies and archery. Also said to be the god of light and truth. Is associated with the sun. Also referred to as the most beautiful of the gods. Son of Zeus.

Ares- God of war and bloodshed. Brother to Athena, and is the son of Zeus.

Artemis- Goddess of the hunt and wild things. Protector of the dewy young. She became associated with the moon. Apollo is her twin brother. Artemis is a virgin goddess.

Athena- Goddess of wisdom, handicrafts, agriculture and reason. Sister of Ares, and is the daughter of Zeus. She is a virgin goddess as well.

Demeter- Goddess of fertility, grain, and harvest.

Dionysus- God of wine, and merriment. He represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences.

Hades- Lord of the Underworld and god of the riches found within the earth. Brother of Poseidon and Zeus.

Hephaestus- God of fire and the forge (god of fire and smiths) with very weak legs. Makes armor for the gods and other heroes like Achilles. Son of Hera. Zeus is his father in some accounts.

Hera- Goddess of marriage. Zeus' sister and wife. Appears with peacock feathers often.

Hermes- God of flight, thieves, and commerce. Messenger of the gods. He showed the way for the dead souls to Hades's realm. He shows up in more myths than any other god or goddess. Likes to trick people and is very inventive. Hermes invented the lyre using a turtle shell and sinew.

Poseidon- God of the sea, horses and earthquakes. Brother of Hades and Zeus and father of Polyphemus. Created horses from sea foam.

Zeus- King of the gods. Son of Cronus (Cronos, Kronos). God of the sky and thunder. Brother of Poseidon and Hades. Husband of Hera.

Roman-

Apollo - god of the sun, poetry, music, and oracles, and an Olympian

Bona Dea - goddess of fertility, healing, virginity, and women. Also known as Fauna

Bacchus - god of wine and sensual pleasures, not considered an Olympian by the Romans

Carmenta - goddess of childbirth and prophecy, and assigned a flamen minor. The leader of the Camenae.

Ceres - goddess of the harvest and mother of Proserpina, and an Olympian, and assigned a flamen minor

Cybele - earth mother

Diana - goddess of the hunt, the moon, virginity, and childbirth, twin sister of Apollo and an Olympian

Flora - goddess of flowers, and assigned a flamen minor

Fortuna - goddess of fortune

Janus - two-headed god of beginnings and endings and of doors

Juno - Queen of the Gods and goddess of matrimony, and an Olympian

Jupiter - King of the Gods and the storm, air, and sky god, and an Olympian, and assigned a flamen maior

Mars - god of war and father of Romulus, the founder of Rome, and an Olympian, and assigned a flamen Maior

Mercury - messenger of the gods and bearer of souls to the underworld, and an Olympian

Minerva - goddess of wisdom and war, and an Olympian

Neptune - god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses, and an Olympian

Ops - goddess of plenty

Pluto - King of the Dead

Pomona - goddess of fruit trees, and assigned a flamen minor.

Portunes - god of keys, doors, and livestock, he was assigned a flamen minor.

Proserpina - Queen of the Dead and a grain-goddess

Volturnus- a god of water, was assigned a flamen minor.

Quirinus - Romulus, the founder of Rome, was deified as Quirinus after his death. Quirinus was a war god and a god of the Roman people and state, and was assigned a flamen maior.

Saturn - a titan, god of harvest and agriculture, the father of Jupiter, Neptune, Juno, and Pluto

Venus - goddess of love and beauty, mother of the hero Aeneas, and an Olympian

Vesta - goddess of the hearth and the Roman state, and an Olympian.

Vulcan - god of the forge, fire, and blacksmiths, and an Olympian, and assigned a flamen minor

 Egyptian

Amun - the hidden one , a local creator deity later married to Mut after rising in importance

Amunet - female aspect of the primordial concept of air in the Ogdoad cosmogony; was depicted as a cobra snake or a snake-headed woman

Anubis -jackal god of embalming and tomb-caretaker who watches over the dead

Anuket , goddess of the Nile River, the child of Satis and among the Elephantine triad of deities; temple on the Island of Seheil, giver of life and fertility , gazelle-headed

Apep (Apophis) - evil serpent of the Underworld, enemy of Ra and formed from a length of Neith's spit during her creation of the world

The Aten - the sun disk or globe worshipped primarily during the Amarna Period in the Eighteenth Dynasty when representing a monotheistic deity advanced by Amenhotep IV, who took the name Akhenaten

Atum - a creator deity, and the setting sun

Bast , goddess, protector of the pharaoh and a solar deity where the sun could be seen shining in her eyes at night, a lioness, house cat, cat-bodied or cat-headed woman, also known as Bastet when superseded by Sekhmet

Bat - represented the cosmos and the essence of the soul (Ba), cow goddess who gave authority to the king, cult originated in Hu and persisted widely until absorbed as an aspect of Hathor after the eleventh dynasty; associated with the sistrum and the ankh

Bes - dwarfed demigod - associated with protection of the household, particularly childbirth, and entertainment

The four sons of Horus - personifications of the containers for the organs of the deceased pharaohs - Imsety in human form, contained the liver and was protected by Isis; Hapi in baboon form, contained the lungs and was protected by Nephthys; Duamutef in jackal form, contained the stomach and was protected by Neith; Qebehsenuef in hawk form, contained the large intestines and was protected by Serket

Geb - god of the Earth and first ruler of Egypt

Hapy - god embodied by the Nile, and who represents life and fertility

Hathor - among the oldest of Egyptian deities - often depicted as the cow, a solar deity who was the mother to the pharaoh, the golden "calf" of the bible, and later goddess of Love and Music

Heget - goddess of childbirth and fertility, who breathed life into humans at birth, represented as a frog or a frog-headed woman

Horus - the falcon-headed god, son of Isis, god of pharaohs and Upper Egypt

Imhotep - god of wisdom, medicine, and magic

Isis - goddess of magical power and healing, "She of the Throne" who was represented as the throne, also the wife of Osiris and goddess of the underworld - symbolized by tiet or tyet, meaning welfare or life, resembles an ankh, except that its arms curve down, to represent the idea of eternal life or resurrection; an early deity whose cults persisted into the Sixth Century CE.

Iusaaset - the "shadow" of Atum or Atum-Ra, a goddess who was seen as the mother and grandmother of the gods, referred to as the great one who comes forth

Khepry - the scarab beetle, the embodiment of the dawn

Khnum - a creator deity, god of the inundation

Maahes - he who is true beside her , a lion prince, son of Bast in Lower Egypt and of Sekhmet in Upper Egypt and sharing their natures, his father varied—being the current chief male deity of the time and region, a god of war, weather, and protector of matrilineality, his cult arrived during the New Kingdom era perhaps from Nubia and was centred in Taremu and Per-Bast, associated with the high priests of Amon, the knife, lotuses, and devouring captives

Ma'at - a goddess who personified concept of truth, balance, justice, and order - represented as a woman, sitting or standing, holding a sceptre in one hand and an ankh in the other - thought to have created order out of the primal chaos and was responsible for maintaining the order of the universe and all of its inhabitants, to prevent a return to chaos

Mafdet - she who runs swiftly - early deification of legal justice (execution) as a cheetah, ruling at judgment hall in Duat where enemies of the pharaoh were decapitated with Mafdet's claw ; alternately, a cat, a mongoose, or a leopard protecting against vermin, snakes, and scorpions; the bed upon which royal mummies were placed in murals

Menhit - goddess of war - depicted as a lioness-goddess and therefore becoming associated with Sekhmet

Meretseger - goddess of the valley of the kings, a cobra-goddess, sometimes triple-headed, dweller on the top of or the personification of the pyramid-shaped mountain, Al-Qurn, which overlooked the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings

Menthu - an ancient god of war - nomad - represented strength, virility, and victory

Mut (also spelled Mout), mother , was originally a title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, the mother from which the cosmos emerged, as was Naunet in the Ogdoad cosmogony, however, the distinction between motherhood and cosmic water lead to the separation of these identities and Mut gained aspects of a creator goddess

Naunet - a goddess, the primal waters from which all arose, similar to Mut and later closely related to Nu

Neith - goddess of war, then great mother goddess - a name of the primal waters, the goddess of creation and weaving, said to weave all of the world on her loom

Nekhbet - goddess depicted as a white vulture - protector of Egypt, royalty, and the pharaoh with her extended wings - referred to as Mother of Mothers, who hath existed from the Beginning, and Creatrix of the World (related to Wadjet); always seen on the front of pharaoh’s double crown with Wadjet

Nephthys - goddess of death, holder of the rattle, the Sistrum - sister to Isis and the nursing mother of Horus and the pharaohs represented as the mistress of the temple, a woman with falcon wings, usually outstretched as a symbol of protection

Nut - goddess of heaven and the sky - mother of many deities as well as the sun, the moon, and the stars

Osiris - god of the underworld after Hathor and Anubis, fertility, and agriculture - the oldest son of the sky goddess, Nut, and the Earth god, Geb, and being brother and later, the husband of Isis - and early deity of Upper Egypt whose cult persisted into the Sixth Century CE

Pakhet - she who tears - deity of merged aspects of Sekhmet and Bast, cult center at Beni Hasan where north and south met - lioness protector, see Speos Artemidos

Ptah - a creator deity, also god of craft

Ra - the sun, also a creator deity - whose chief cult centre was based in Heliopolis meaning "city of the sun"

Ra-Horakhty - god of both sky and Sun, a combination of Ra and Horus - thought to be god of the Rising Sun

Reshep - war god who was originally from Syria

Satis - the goddess who represented the flooding of the Nile River, ancient war, hunting, and fertility goddess, mother of the Nile, Anuket, associated with water, depicted with a bow and arrows, and a gazelle or antelope horned, and sometimes, feathered crown

Sekhmet - goddess of destruction and war, the lioness - also personified as an aspect of Ra, fierce protector of the pharaoh, a solar deity, and later as an aspect of Hathor

Seker - god of death

Selket - scorpion goddess, protectress, goddess of magic

Sobek - crocodile god of the Nile

Set - god of storms, later became god of evil, desert, also Lower Egypt

Seshat - goddess of writing, astronomy, astrology, architecture, and mathematics depicted as a scribe

Shu - embodiment of wind or air

Swenet - goddess of the ancient city on the border of southern Egypt at the Nile River, trade in hieroglyphs

Taweret - goddess of pregnant women and protector at childbirth

Tefnut - goddess, embodiment of rain, dew, clouds, and wet weather, depicted as a cat and sometimes as a lioness

Thoth - god of the moon, drawing, writing, geometry, wisdom, medicine, music, astronomy, magic; usually depicted as ibis-headed, or as a goose; cult centered in Khemennu

Wadjet - the goddess - snake goddess of lower Egypt, depicted as a cobra, patron and protector of Egypt and the pharaoh, always shown on crown of the pharaohs; later joined by the image of Nekhbet after north and south united; other symbols: eye, snake on staff

Wadj-wer - fertility god and personification of the Mediterranean sea or lakes of the Nile delta

Wepwawet - jackal god of upper Egypt

Wosret - a localized guardian goddess, protector of the young god Horus, an early consort of Amun, who was later superseded by Mut