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[beccaelizabeth]

ways having my brain is Not Easy, part the... I have no idea. Manyth. Anyway:
Two in the morning, can't get to sleep, vaguely wonder what kind of god Owen Harper would be in a ritual, discover I can't just vaguely wonder anything, have to go get the books out, then find that I don't have any actual gods books just goddess ones. And one of those thinks that all goddesses and indeed all gods are some version of one ancient mother goddess who was worshipped by the matriarchy and pulled down by the patriarchy. And also basically everything is about menstruation. And I can see why there's a need to refocus on goddess and look at versions of the stories that don't make them interchangeable props for the god stories, but I can't see how making them interchangeable and defined by biology is actually better. So then it was nearly four in the morning and I still didn't have an answer and also I was annoyed.

I think sleeping would have been more useful. :eyeroll:

So, today:
research gods who both heal and hunt
read more about that class I need to pass at some point

Comments

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Is Nodens/Nuada supposed to do both? Personally, I think of Herne/Cernunnos as both a healer and a hunter, but I'm not sure that's anything other than UPG.

[beccaelizabeth]

Nodens is looking like a winner - has a whole hand thing going on that ties in rather nicely with recent stuff in books. Shiny.

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Nodens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodens)
Apollo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo)
Woden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woden)

[beccaelizabeth]

I wasn't familiar with Nodens. I thought of Apollo first, but Greek god doesn't really seem to fit. Nodens has a hand thing going on that looks like an interesting match.

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I rather liked Woden. I think his personality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin) has some interesting matches for Owen. And he is missing an eye if you want the disability angle - not quite as good a match as Nodens's hand, admittedly. Plus he hung on the world tree, which is often equated with coming back from the dead. Mostly though I just like the idea of Owen as leader of the Wild Hunt. Hee.