Post #10
Raven (Sarah)- I learned that in Native American mythology, Raven is a trickster and often brings signs of the future.
GuanYin (Jaci)- I was happy to discover that there are Chinese gods who are very friendly and forgiving. She had to save all the souls from Earth before she could go to Heaven, because she didn't want to leave anyone behind.
Sun Wu Kong (Alex)- Monkey can do 72 transformations. He also has a staff that weighs 30,000 pounds and he often uses it to play tricks and ruin immortal peach banquets.
Komorkis (Ania)- Komorkis is a goddess from the Blackfeet tribe, and the stars are her children.
Xi-Wangmu (Grace)- Xi-Wangmu is in charge of the immortal peaches, she is also my wife.
Hathor (Ciarra)- Hathor is responsible for love, joy, music, dance, and fertility. She is often depicted with a cow head. She also married Horus.
Sekhmet (Reagan)- Sekhmet is kind of the alter-ego of Hathor. Sekhmet has the head of a lioness and she was sent to earth to destroy all the humans who had wronged Ra.
Nut (Rachel)- Nut has the very imortant job of protecting the world from the chaos beyond it. She is tall with blue skin, which is covered in stars. Nut loved her brother, Geb, but her father split them apart. Sending Nut to the sky and Geb to the earth.
Thor (Cody)- I learned that Thor carries a hammer, named Mjollnir. Thor is also not very smart, but he is the protector of Asgard. He is married to Sif and had a daughter with her, Thrud. He also had two boys, Magni and Modi, with a women named Jarnsaxa.
Loki (Hunter)- Loki is a giant, and somehow tricked his way into being a Norse god. He can shape shift and he invented the fishing net. He often manipulates others. Loki married Angrboda and Sigyn. His symbol is a snake and he is very smart and cunning.
Odin (Jake)- Odin is the smartest of Norse gods. He gave up his eye to drink from the well of wisdom, which made him very wise. He has two raven, Huginn and Munin. He also has two wolves, Freki and Geri.
Ma'at (Franci)- Ma'at is the daughter of Ra and married Thoth. She judges hearts against her ostrich feather. She is very strict and doesn't give second chances.
Freyja (Kalya)- Freyia can shapeshift into a falcon. She is the queen of the Valkyries. Freyja is very stubborn and greedy. She married Od, and has two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi. She is still war shipped in some places in Scandinavia.
Artemis (Shaina)- Artemis has a twin brother Apollo. She is the daughter of Zeus. Zeus's wife, Hera, is very jealous because Hera is not Artemis's mother. Artemis is the goddess of the hunt. She often carries her bow and arrows.
Pandora (Emily W.)- Pandora was put on earth to punish mankind. Zeus was angry at Prometheus because he stole fire and gave it to the humans. Zeus gave Pandora a box and told her not to open it. Her curiosity got the best of her and she opened the box and let out a lot of evil into the world. She shut the box quickly, which left Hope in the box.
Glispa (Tracy)- Glispa is a goddess from Navajoland. Her singing can heal people. When she was 16, she was kidnapped by the Klesh, or snake people, and she learned how to heal from them.
Chang-e (Jade)- Chang-e had a husband who shot down the Jade Emperor's sons. Chang-e was banished to Earth. She then drank an potion which turned her into an immortal. Chang-e floated up to the moon were she lives with her bunny.
Rhea (Emily)- Rhea is the mother of Zeus. She married Kronos and had children who would later become Greek gods. Rhea skillfully tricked her husband into eating a rock instead of Zeus.
Balder (Allie)- Balder is a wise Norse god. He is the god of light, joy and happiness. His mother asked Balder to be protected from everything, except mistletoe. Frigg didn't think that mistletoe would ever hurt Balder, so she didn't asked for him to be protected from it. Loki found out and tricked an old blind man into killing Balder with the mistletoe.