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The Greek Pantheon

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The Greek Pantheon

The Greek Pantheon is the faith of the Holy Theocracy of Olympus, where the gods are held to be the ultimate good and worship is as natural as breathing. It is a peculiar faith: followers pay their respects to all the gods at great occasions, but in daily life devote themselves to a single patron - for the Greek gods are jealous and bicker over mortal attention, so honouring a god who is not one’s patron must be done with care and good reason.

Tenets

Greek religion holds that the universe was made out of chaos by the ever-progressing flow of fate. The gods are higher beings born to rule the world, but they are neither all-good nor all-powerful, and remain subject to the rulings of the Moirai. Above all, the faith warns against Hubris - the sin of seeing oneself as greater than fate and the gods.

Worship and Practices

Once every four years, the Olympic Games are held in a major Greek city in honour of Zeus. The gods intervene freely in mortal affairs - directly or through omens and monsters - yet see themselves as bound by fate, and clash only through mortal proxies rather than open battle.

The Afterlife

In death, the soul travels to the underworld, the realm of Hades. Guided across the river by Charon the ferryman (for the price of a gold coin, placed under the tongue of the dead), and past Cerberus, the soul is judged by the three judges of the underworld and sent to Tartarus (eternal punishment, and the prison of the Titans), the Asphodel Meadows (for the unremarkable), or Elysium (eternal bliss, for the great and the god-beloved).

View of Other Religions

The Greek faith regards other religions as false, and treats them with coldness and contempt.

Deities of the Pantheon

The Twelve Olympians and their kin: Zeus (ruler of the gods, the air), Hera (marriage), Poseidon (the sea), Hades (the underworld), Apollo (sun, prophecy, music), Artemis (the hunt), Athena (wisdom and battle), Ares (war), Aphrodite (love and beauty), Demeter (the harvest), Dionysus (wine), Hephaestus (the forge), Hermes (thieves and messengers), Hestia (the hearth), Pan (the wilds - patron of centaurs and satyrs), Hecate (magic), and the triple goddess of justice (Eleos, Dike, Nemesis).

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Notes

  • Individual deity pages are deferred; this is a pantheon overview.

Sources & Attribution

  • Primary lore: content/General/Gods of Thelemar.md (Greek Pantheon) and General-Countries of Thelemar.md, author TrueMichato.

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