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<blockquote data-quote="Beleriphon" data-source="post: 7605211" data-attributes="member: 27847"><p>The line of reasoning makes sense. Sticking with a place works as it make it clear through our cultural associations what we're talking about. Olympians means the Hellenistic gods of classical Greece. So Zeus, Hades, Aphrodite, and the rest. They don't literally have to reside on Olympus in myth to know what I mean when I say that. Same for Norse myth, Asgard is an important place in the myths and most if not all of them spent a tremendous amount of time there. Remember, Loki was responsible of getting Odin out of a giant's debt for building Valhalla's walls.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Tuatha de Dannan still works, its literally what the Irish Celts called their gods, even if the that specific group doesn't include things like Fomorians specifically.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I like the Ennead, which is the principle creator deities of Egyptian myth. It included (according to ye old Wiki) Atum; his children Shu and Tefnut; their children Geb and Nut; and their children Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys. This can include Horus as well depending on the source. I like the name its different than other groups, includes enough deities from actual Egyptian myths that it isn't unreasonable to apply the name to the fantasy-historical group of deities as a whole. That's a Latinized word from Greek, meaning "The Nine", original Egyptian probably would have been close to Pesedjet, with the same meaning.</p><p></p><p>Wikipedia is actually a pretty good source for the names of these groups of deities. It usually has the translations or transliterations of the original names somewhere in the article if you search for "<cultural group> Religion". Some of them I suggested earlier I just happen to know off hand, but Wikipedia got me the Finnish suggestion, the Celtic suggestion, and the Egyptian one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beleriphon, post: 7605211, member: 27847"] The line of reasoning makes sense. Sticking with a place works as it make it clear through our cultural associations what we're talking about. Olympians means the Hellenistic gods of classical Greece. So Zeus, Hades, Aphrodite, and the rest. They don't literally have to reside on Olympus in myth to know what I mean when I say that. Same for Norse myth, Asgard is an important place in the myths and most if not all of them spent a tremendous amount of time there. Remember, Loki was responsible of getting Odin out of a giant's debt for building Valhalla's walls. Tuatha de Dannan still works, its literally what the Irish Celts called their gods, even if the that specific group doesn't include things like Fomorians specifically. I like the Ennead, which is the principle creator deities of Egyptian myth. It included (according to ye old Wiki) Atum; his children Shu and Tefnut; their children Geb and Nut; and their children Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys. This can include Horus as well depending on the source. I like the name its different than other groups, includes enough deities from actual Egyptian myths that it isn't unreasonable to apply the name to the fantasy-historical group of deities as a whole. That's a Latinized word from Greek, meaning "The Nine", original Egyptian probably would have been close to Pesedjet, with the same meaning. Wikipedia is actually a pretty good source for the names of these groups of deities. It usually has the translations or transliterations of the original names somewhere in the article if you search for "<cultural group> Religion". Some of them I suggested earlier I just happen to know off hand, but Wikipedia got me the Finnish suggestion, the Celtic suggestion, and the Egyptian one. [/QUOTE]
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