Submitted by ripvanwormer on Sat, 2007-04-14 21:29
A pantheon is a collection of powers that are bound together by a variety of factors including, amongst others, their worshippers' culture(s), the pantheon's members' interpersonal relationships and the migrations of their followers. An infinite number of pantheons exist throughout the Multiverse. Individual deities may belong to more than one pantheon. Some of the more popular pantheons are:
REAL WORLD BASED PANTHEONS:
- The Aesir and Vanir (The Norse Pantheon)
- The Gods of the Kalevala (The Finnish Pantheon)
- The Olympians and the Titans (The Greek Pantheon)
- The Gods of the Nile (The Egyptian Pantheon)
- The Tuatha De Danann (The Celtic Pantheon)
- The Gods of the Fertile Crescent (The Babylonian and Sumerian Pantheons)
- The Celestial Bureaucracy (The Chinese Pantheon)
- The Ancestors of Fujiyama (The Japanese Pantheon)
- The Vedic Gods (The Indian Pantheon)
- The Central American Pantheon
- The Eastern European Pantheon
- The Gods+of+Faerun (Forgotten Realms)
- The Gods+of+the+Flanaess (Greyhawk)
- The Gods+of+Krynn (Dragonlance)
- The Immortals+(Mystara)
- The Gods+of+Aebrynis (Birthright)
- The Seldarine (The Elven Pantheon)
- The Gods of the Drow (The Dark+Elven+Pantheon)
- The Morndinsamman (The Dwarven Pantheon)
- The Lords of the Golden Hills (The Gnomish Pantheon)
- Yondalla's Children (The Halfling Pantheon)
- The Children of Io (The Dragon Pantheon and Kobold Pantheon)
- One Eye's Tribe (The Orcish+Pantheon)
- Maglubiyet's Clan (The Goblin Pantheon)
- Annam's Blood (The Giant Pantheon)
- Hruggek's Tribe (The Bugbear Pantheon)
- The Seelie and Unseelie Courts (The Fey Pantheon)
- Aspects of the World Serpent (Scaly Pantheon)
- The Asathalfinare (Gods of the Seas and Skies)
- The Shapechanger+Pantheon
- The Neogi Pantheon
- Cthulhu+Pantheon (H.P. Lovecraft, et. al.'s Cthulhu Cycle)
- Lankhmar Pantheon (Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Grey Mousers Series)
- Melnibonéan Pantheon (Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion books)
Sources:
Deities & Demigods (1st ed.)
Legends & Lore (2nd ed.)
Monster Mythology
Demihuman Deities
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