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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9784379" data-attributes="member: 25818">Yeah, Hermes gets a lot of play in the religious sphere, but Hermes Trismegistus hits his greatest popularity in the medieval area. He's popular on Maya (with Wizards and Sorcerers, naturally), but I'm trying to reconstruct the original cults that traveled to my campaign. Once I have an idea of which cults migrated, I can make changes to reflect thousands of years of development.Thanks to the chapter "The Religious System at Alexandria" in A Companion to Greek Religion (ed. Daniel Ogden) and a few other papers, I have this list:Olympian Pantheon<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Aphrodite (worshiped at the Caesareum and Heptastadeion)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Apollo</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Demeter (worshiped at the Thesmophorium)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eleusinian Mysteries (the suburb of Eleusis practiced this, based on inscriptions)</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dionysos</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dioskuri (the twins Castor and Pollux -- very popular!)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hera Teleia (Hera as the "perfect" or "full-grown" wife, representing her role as a married woman and goddess of marriage)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Herakles Soter (Herakles in his aspect as a "Savior," a divine protector of mankind who embodied strength and virtue)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hermaphroditus (a child of Aphrodite and Hermes, who, uh, has the best of both worlds!)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Leto (a childhood goddess, the mother of Apollo and Artemis and usually worshiped with them)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nemesis (the goddess of retribution for the sin of hubris)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Poseidon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pan</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Zeus Soter (Zeus in his aspect as a "Savior," a deity of safety, preservation, and protection from harm for both individuals and the state, and a patron of the household)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Zeus Melchios (Meilichios was the divine personification of Athens; later he was worshiped as Zeus Melchios)</li> </ul>Pharaonic Pantheon<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Isis-Pharia (Isis as lighthouse goddess)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hermanubis (Graeco-Egyptian god who conducts the souls of the dead to the underworld)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Synbasilistai (the Pharaonic cult)</li> </ul>Roman Pantheon<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Divus Iulius (the deified Emperor Julius Caesar, worshiped at the Sebastieon)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mithras (Roman version of the Persian god Mithra, worshiped at the Mithraeum)</li> </ul>Other Gods<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bendis (Thracian goddess of hunting and the Moon; the Greeks made her one of the seven daughters of Zeus who were turned into swans)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cybele (Anatolian Great Mother Goddess)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Yahweh (many synagogues were included in the "temples" figure above)</li> </ul>The Romans didn't generally insist on importing their full pantheon to conquered cities. With one exception: the Emperor Cult, which gave worship to both the living Emperor and the deceased ones.I have to give thought to the deities like "Zeus Melchios" -- it's possible the cult changes would need to be reflected with domain changes.</blockquote>

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