I'm hungry... But that's not anything new, soooooo... I've decided that the civilizations that came up with the various gods (like the Norse gods, Greek gods, Celtic gods, ect. Not any of the gods in living religions) were freaking drunk!!! Take the Celts for example... They had a god over alcoholic beverages! All of them! Crazy Irish/Scottish/Ect. ancestors... And most of the gods blend into each other. Epona was the Celtic horse goddess. She was also the dream/nightmare goddess (she's where we get the name 'nightmare'), water goddess of some sort, death goddess somehow, part of the triple war goddess, and blends a bit with the head goddess that I can't remember the name of at the present moment. They both had three golden song birds that put people to sleep when they heard them sing. My brain hurt just reading about her and she's the least confusing of the Celtic gods. The war goddess was a triple goddess which meant that she was one goddess but also three separate goddesses (The Moragan (normal name), Macha (which was Epona's other name), and some other name beginning with 'B' that can't remember).
Back to Epona... WHO WERE YOU MARRIED TOO, WOMAN!?
That actually goes for all of them... I can't for the life of me figure out who's married to who. One second Epona's married to the alcoholic/thunder/party god, then the next she's single, then in another story she's married to someone else! My brain hurts people! And I can't just stop researching, because I need to learn about them for a book I'm writing! Nrarghemphlargemdartuwghgjsahpiuvbwqoiutajkdgrgbebotwagvbyervboqgvfasbvaeurybv!
That is all...

2 comments:
The triple goddess reminds me of the trinity from Christianity.
And I'me sure there are many conflicting stories. Just pick one or make one up to make it even more confusing for the writers who follow you.
What I'm doing is trying to learn as much as I can and pick what I actually want to use and what I'm going to change. In a way, the Celts are easier to do this with than the Greeks because of all the blurring together. I can just pick who gets what or if they even get something. Still confusing though...
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