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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8400068" data-attributes="member: 6790260">In that case: your &quot;evil gods&quot; become Ares-equivalents, or something like the Aztec view of why blood and heart sacrifices were necessary. That is, the world itself is a Lovecraftian horror of the &quot;that is not dead which can forever lie&quot; variety, and blood sacrifices keep it completely asleep so it doesn't start randomly eating people. And then the Sun is literally running away from the Moon because if it gets completely eaten by the Moon, the world will end, and the best fuel for keeping the Sun going is human hearts because they are precious and powerful.Simply put, evil deities become targets of propitiation rather than worship per se. Stalwart Hades and Dread Persephone were not so much &quot;worshipped&quot; as &quot;deeply feared&quot; and &quot;referred to by epithets because if you say their names they might notice you.&quot; Poseidon presents something of a middle-of-the-road deity, where people who only needed to travel by sea would often offer propitiative sacrifices to him (because the sea is vast and scary), while people who sailed or fished for a living would outright worship him as their patron.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8400068, member: 6790260"] In that case: your "evil gods" become Ares-equivalents, or something like the Aztec view of why blood and heart sacrifices were necessary. That is, the world itself is a Lovecraftian horror of the "that is not dead which can forever lie" variety, and blood sacrifices keep it completely asleep so it doesn't start randomly eating people. And then the Sun is literally running away from the Moon because if it gets completely eaten by the Moon, the world will end, and the best fuel for keeping the Sun going is human hearts because they are precious and powerful. Simply put, evil deities become targets of propitiation rather than worship per se. Stalwart Hades and Dread Persephone were not so much "worshipped" as "deeply feared" and "referred to by epithets because if you say their names [I]they might notice you[/I]." Poseidon presents something of a middle-of-the-road deity, where people who only needed to travel by sea would often offer propitiative sacrifices to him (because the sea is vast and scary), while people who sailed or fished for a living would outright worship him as their patron. [/QUOTE]

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