Whose avatar, if any, am I?

[silveradept]

This question spawns from a conversation I had a while ago with bradhicks, and not about policy, but about one of his assertions that as a Hellenic Reconstructionist, he felt that Dionysus, for better or worse, was paying his life a special amount of attention, with as much as has gone on.

Yesterday, when I was not cursing out my finances (they're not as bad as I think they are, I'm sure, but it's never nice to find out that you thought you were doing well, except that you're not really doing well), as a thought experiment and chance for you to inject humor or seriousness into dialogue, I thought up the following.

If it were so that, for whatever reason you can think of, "the gods" (insert whatever appropriate pantheon you like, have the most experience with, et cetera - if you are a monotheist and believe in saints and/or angels, substitute the saints/angels, as it's then a given that we're all Children of the Monotheist Deity) decided that I was to become the favored disciple/avatar/child of one of them (or many, if you really can't decide and think they could all play nice), which deity would lay claim to me?

I'm asking this because while I might think I fall under the auspices of one deity, someone with outside perspective could probably take into account all of my facets and make an accurate selection.

Just something for me to think about - if I were to become the avatar of a deity, which one would pick me?

Comments

[blacktigr.livejournal.com]

First blush says "Themis", but I will have to think about it.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

gimme a little while to think about that

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Let's go for Min! If for no other reason than I think the world needs more acolytes of a god with a boner the size of my forearm.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

don't ask me where this comes from, but Cerridwen. That's the goddess that popped into my head.

[aoanla.livejournal.com]

You know, this is oddly topical for me, since I just finished reading Zelazny's "Isle of the Dead", which features a Classic Zelazny hero - wisecracking trickster with godlike powers/responsibilities that he rejects (only to later come to accept them and mature somewhat) - who has become, (yes!) the avatar of a deity...

The thing you have to worry about, of course, is what happens if the deity who picks you isn't one you get on with?

[silveradept]

That was the point of the original bradhicks post, to some degree - despite whatever god or goddess he would have preferred to be seen as special by, he got Dionysus, and ignores those blessings at his peril, even when they don't seem to be much for blessing at all.

[uncle-pervy.livejournal.com]

But what's wrong with being the avatar of Dionysus - The God of Hooch & Smooch?

[silveradept]

The madness, the fury, the insanity? The revels and the parties and the constant upheaval? There's a lot more than just hooch and smooch, d00d.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

Ceiling cat.

(I had this discussion of how under certain monist (is that the right word?) thinking you would certainly be considered an avatar of the single God-entity, exactly as you are... but I decided not to elaborate it.)

[silveradept]

I was taking it as a bit of a given that for most sequences of monotheism, every being is considered some part of the God-being, and a manifestation thereof, so I was working off of ideas where that concept might be subdivided a little bit more for precision.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

But if I really had to be precise, I'd say you were the manifestation of the ceiling cat manifestation of the God-entity.

Does that make sense? After all, it's the right combination of absurdity and seriousness and internet subculture.

[silveradept]

If there's a joke or a meta-joke involved somewhere, I'm missing it completely. Since you seem to have stolen my bucket, I think I will wait and has a cheeseburger while you explain yourself.