The people at GodChecker have a list of pretty much every Supreme Being that has tried to persuade it's followers that the Big Bang never happened and the Earth was actually made by them a few thousand years ago so they could now stop believing all the overwhelming mass of scientific evidence about evolution and the creation of the Universe but of the 4000+ Gods, who are the ones at the top of the Holy Hit Parade?
In a Top of the Pop's countdown voice with less Led Zeppelin music and more Angelic choir, here are the Top 10 Gods and at 10 we have the Slavic Chernobog who lists his hobbies as being the Lord of Evil and causing calamity, disaster, bad luck and misfortune wherever he turns.
At 9 is Yoruba Godess Oya and when she isn't controlling the weather, she likes to spend her time overlooking funerals and lung disease and she is joined in the top 10 by another Yoruban, Obtala who is teetotal after the whole getting rip snorting drunk and missing out on creating the World, but he did get to create men and women so you can blame him for Piers Morgan.
He may be the top banana in Norse Mythology but Odin is at number 7 in the list who, when he isn't out riding his eight legged stallion, is kept up to date with Earthly goings on by his two ravens and his son Thor may have an impressive hammer but it isn't as good as the one weidled by the God at number 6, the Chinese God Monkey who has the one used to flatten the bed of the Milky Way and uses to give a headache to any demon stupid enough to get in its way.
Top 5 and at 5 it's the Greek Tithonus who went from being a mere mortal to marrying the Godess Eos before being turned into a Cicada by Zeus so that must have been an exciting couple of weeks for him and Norse God of mayem Loki may have a TV Series but was last seen having serpents venom dripped on him in a cavern where he is tied up with his sons entrails.
Yoruba God Shango is many things, god of thunder and war mainly, but he is also known to play drums on the clouds and does like a spot of dancing so a bit like Keith Moon is many respects and just missing out is The Yoruban Orishas who are not one God but more of a cocktail of 1,700 Gods who got together to run the Earth but had to hand it over to someone else after 16 days as they realised they didn't have a clue what to do with it.
At the top of the God Charts, the Numero Uno, crème de la crème pre-eminent God is the Norse Warrior and head Valkyrie, Freya. She is a love Goddess who loves soft music, flowers and going at it like a rabbit with dwarfs, other Gods, mortals and giants if those rumours are to be believed and if you die on a battlefield you could find out yourself because she gets first pick of any slain warriors to go to her palace for...let's call it recuperation.
Special mention to my personal favourite, Voodoo God Baron Samedi, who is just outside the Top 10 because who doesn't love a rum drinking, cigar smoking skeleton in a top hat and a black tailcoat wearing dark sunglasses.
3 comments:
the gods are just as good as the science.
from scientists:
> some idiots (a phd in science doesn't mean you aren't an idiot, my father-n-law is a very successful chemist and he still thinks we are going to run out oil in 5 years... been hearing that since 1987... he will be right one day if he lives long enough) think evolution explains creation - instead of things changing after creation. btw, we still don't know how chemicals became something living (there are hypotheses), we don't know how two cells form a new living being at conception, and it doesn't explain consciousness either...
> then we have the theory of many universes (going back to schrödinger's cat)
> of course we have the "Big Bang" which doesn't explain what banged... nothing can't bang if you listen to scientists...
> some say there was never nothing and always something - that really helps...
> a few months ago i read that there are several data points that indicate there was something before the big bang... also not helpful in understanding creation except that big bang isn't the explanation...
> i read something last week saying that there were several "forces" that led to a big bang - of course, these are unknown "speculative things"... and it went on to explain that the "universe" wasn't actually nothingness, it was instead a vast energy field... presumably endless (also not helpful)...
for a while scientists thought that we would find the smallest "thing" and that "everything" would explained at that point. only to find out that we reached a point where there is nothing measurable or predictable - chaos...
the more we learn, the more questions we have...
so why not believe in a god? it is just as useful, unless you are a scientist getting paid by tax payers to research the unknowable.
My mantra has always been if you look at the evidence for a god and come out of it believing it, then you really should read it again. Believe what you want though, unlike most religions I won’t be killing you for it.
i never looked for evidence of god. i looked for "understanding" of what is expected in daily life once one believes in god.
i look to science similarly. i look to science for "understanding" what one can expect in daily life.
both god (hence religious based wars) and science (hence weapons that enhance killing) get twisted and misused by people.
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