A Modest Pantheon

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Mythology's Finest

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Eros
The primordial god of sexual love and beauty. He was also worshiped as a fertility deity. He is the son of Aphrodite and Ares and now typically known by "Cupid".

Personality:
Irreverant, childish and capricious, Eros nevertheless shows an unusal capacity for loyalty, as demonstrated in his devoltion to Psyche and Hedone. The extent to which his immature sense of humour is calculated to make him less of a threat to the other gods is unclear.

Appearance:


Current status among their fellow Gods:
Eros is considered childish by the adult gods, and they usually go to Aphrodite over him whenever escort-related services are required, not realising that it is only Eros who possesses the golden arrows. Most of the time Eros is unnoticed and is able to gambol around gathering gossip as he pleases: to an extent his childish image is calculated. Hera thinks Aphrodite is an unsuitable mother and Eros frequently abuses her maternal instincts for his own ends.
Eros's mother, Aphrodite, or "the bint in the bikini" as she is affectionately known, is still angry at him over the whole Psyche debacle.

Wife: Psyche; Daughter: Hedone; Mother: Aphrodite; Father: Hephaestus;

Extra Information:
http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Eros.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche
Eros carries a quiver of arrows that cause the wounded to fall in love with the first living creature they see after being hit. The timing of matchings needs to be carefully calibrated, as watching mortals rush around courting badgers got boring a few hundred years ago; though the odd love-polygon is always a good tonic to a rainy afternoon.

Dionysus
God of wine, parties and festivals, madness, drunkenness and pleasure. He is the son of Zeus and the mortal Semele. His symbols include the thyrsus (a pine-cone tipped staff), drinking cup, grape vine and a crown of ivy.

Personality:
Dio has never had a hangover in his life and consequently has a rather jolly time of it. He is always to be found at the center of the party, always generous towards his followers and always up for a bit of rumpy pumpy. Nowadays Dio is usually to be found lounging in the form of an overweight man on a chaise-long, though in his youth he was eerily beautiful. He wears a red silk dressing gown not unlike the one worn by Hugh Hefnor, smokes a pipe and enjoys doing crosswords, all secrets he keeps from the other gods in case they damage his reputation.

Appearance:


Current status among his fellow Gods:
Dio enjoys the company of Aphrodite, with whom he has had a child, Priapus (now one of the retinue). He often trying for a repeat performance, but without much hope. Illogically, Dio and Hephaestus get along well, Aphro's adultary giving them something to bond over.
Dio does not get along with Apollo, whom he considers a bit of a know-it-all, and Hera still resents Dio as the illegitimate child of her husband.

Mother: Semele; Father: Zeus; Son: Priapus;

Extra Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonian_and_Dionysian
Followed by a retinue of drunken revellers called maenads (raving women) and satyrs (men) and the odd nymph or centaur. Rides a chariot drawn by panthers and has a riding-leopard.