the god of stinky cheeses

[eris404]

what is the silliest historically worshipped god?

My personal favorite is Cloacina, Roman goddess of the sewers.

 

[Moxie]

Not a god, but...

St. Hubbins, the patron saint of quality footwear!


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My d10 goes up to 11!

 

[shilsen]

Not really historical (although a few are allusive), but there are a great bunch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Consider Bilious, the Oh-God of Hangovers, or Herne the Hunted, the God of...well, hunted creatures.

 

[Teflon Billy]

...what is the silliest, most useless od you have seen published?

Proabably Billy, God of Basket Weaving, the example God from pre-D&D WotC's The Primal Order.

what is the silliest historically worshipped god?

The Voodoo folks seem to have a good deal of silliness in their Loa (it'll happen, there's a Loa for everything).

]what is the god you came up with and later felt silly about?

Christ, where to begin...

Proabaly Zorlac from my campaign when I was 13 years old. A god of Strength who you worshipped by winning arm-wrestling contests

 

[Silver Moon]

Not really historical but there are a great bunch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

Yeah, I've used the Forgotten Realms novels demigod Finder Wyverspur, as the nickname "The God of Reckless Fools" seemed far too fitting to not have in our campaign.

 

[Wombat]

I just remembered two gods from an old Chaosium project (sort of a non-Gloranthan Runequest supplement):

Vrang2jamang (or something like that, anyway the "2" is silent...): God of clumsy/stoned blacksmiths...

Panache: God of Flashy Adventuring (his Runes were something like Sun and Good Taste...)

Nearly forgot about those

 

[Hypersmurf]

Ah! Our household gods! In a world where every day is a struggle for survival, you need all the gods you can get!

Here! This is Denzann, god of food, and this is Li, goddess of passion! And Mogath, god of the underworld and protector of front doors! Gods by the bushel! Gods by the pound! Gods for all occasions!

Have I ever told you that you are very cute, for a Minbari? And you are cute too, in an annoying sort of way! Everybody's cute. Everybody's cute! Even me! ... but in purple... I'm stunning!

-Hyp.

 

[Mallus]

It's always the right time for a little Londo Mollari. Nice...

From my current world...

Mr. Three-Legs, once a mortal giant, now worshipped as the demigodlike Saint of Virility by the sole monotheistic religion. Its is said he carved his world's equivalent of the Grand Canyon with his ....err... third leg.

Dahlberg, also called Dahlberg Distante, the Dreamer out of Time. Sometimes called by his super-secret true name: Matthew Aaron Dahlberg, from the holy plane of Pasadena CA. Matt Dahlberg was once a slacker from our world, whose soul was melded to an acient, senseless space god at the center of the universe while astrally projecting on acid. He is God of Madness and Outer Space. His domains, oddly enough, are Madness and Outer Space.

Malec Pearlhammer, the god of simple machines. He can be all sizes at once.

Nadanya, also called Nanya and Nanny Fancypants, the cigarette smoking, pantaloon-wearing god of civilized Yeti.

Mr. Pau Pau, the Sleeper in Windowsills. The Eater of Cream. Basically, a glowing cat with two small tentacles growing out of its neck. It roams the streets of the city of Eris bringing good luck. It is the only creature in the world that the Devil is afraid of. He refers to him as 'that flea-bitten little light-bringer'. He is quite possibly the worlds redeemer.

Aja Opal Blossom, former wife of the Devil. Won a percentage of the Devils' divinity in their divorce, and used it to become goddess of love. Formerly a coutesan.

Belli Rex Legis, Esq, the lawyer who represented the Devil during his divorce. Also given a share of the Devil's divinity after losing in the settlement. Now the god of lawyers, condemned to listen to their prayers [in bolierplate] for enternity.

Also, the City of Eris is practically overrun with little gods and godlings, their household gods. Of which there are two types... the leres, who are perverse, promiscuous little spirits who enjoy peeking into ladies windows while they're dressing or just looking down their blouses. Residents of Eris often put small red wooden effigies of leres in their windows, to trick any actual leres into thinking their windows are occupied... and the pinyates, which are benevolent spirits full of good luck and candied treats for children. Effigies are made of them and beaten. If an real pinyate is captured and beaten apart, it yields special, numinous candies that are said to extend ones like by 20 years.

I have more [oh boy...], but I gotta go.

Good weekend to everyone...

 

[Hypersmurf]

It's always the right time for a little Londo Mollari. Nice...

It's potentially my favourite line in the whole series.

I can't think, off-hand, of any scene that doesn't involve Marcus somehow that comes close

(Although I admit, I've only seen seasons one and two at all recently, so I may be forgetting some gems from the later seasons.)

-Hyp.

 

[Oni]

Takes a look at god-checker:

*ahem*

YARA-MA-YHA-WHO: Very nasty little vampire. He looks like a small red man with an enormous head, but has no teeth and octopus-like suckers for fingers. If you ever sit beneath an Australian fig tree, be very careful. YARA-MA-YHA-WHO is likely to jump on top of you and suck all your blood out. And then eat you.

Strangely enough, as soon as his food has gone down, he vomits it back up again. His victims are thus miraculously reborn, albeit slightly shorter.

Should he happen to catch the same person repeatedly, the unfortunate regurgitatee will get smaller and redder each time, eventually becoming a YARA-MA-YHA-WHO themselves.

Not necessarily a GOD, persay, but still funny.

Starting a campaign soon, wonder if the players would kill me if they ran into this fellow.