>OH MY GODS!
Stop saying this
>BY THE (number of Gods in the local pantheon)
I will now pay for your DMing services
>OH MY GODS!
>OH MY GODS!
Stop saying this
>BY THE (number of Gods in the local pantheon)
I will now pay for your DMing services
>monotheism
I will now suck your dick.
>DMing
have a nice day.
Ok fine but what other alternatives are there in a polytheistic religion.
Read Ascendance of a Bookworm, the author thinks he's very clever for throwing new ones in every chance he gets
enjoying the anime, would you really recommend it though?
I don't know if you have reading comprehension issues but OP literally included an alternative in the first post.
I also considered if that anon was simply skipping over the text in the OP but I think what's going on is that he's positing that the two things in the OP are the only expressions of this kind for pagans. Which is obviously silly but not as bad.
What's important is that pagan cultures where everybody was expected to worship all the gods, to my knowledge, didn't exist. You were strongly expected to just worship one god based on your job, your region, your family history, your gender and whatnot. People wouldn't be saying things like that at all because only one or two gods are relevant to any given person.
just because you're not actively worshipping them doesn't mean you don't consider them to exist.
people also swear by things they're not worshipping, like "by the devil" or "by merlin's beard"
>everybody was expected to worship all the gods ... didn't exist
So, a couple errors there, first, pagan societies didn't expect anybody to do anything with regard to their personal spirituality/beliefs, the lay worshiper just thought of the world in terms of material and spiritual as part of the same continuum, so to say "I dont believe in Zeus/Jupiter/Indra/Ba'al Zebul/Thor!" would, to most people be like, "I dont believe in lightning and electromagnetism!"
Second, paganism as the historical religious tradition of Europe and most peoples on Earth is really pantheism, not polytheism. Gods are men and men are gods. We are all part of the cycle of death and rebirth, we are all at one time or another incarnated as plasma in the sky, as Dyeus Pater.
Having a patron deity, which I think is what you're referring to, doesn't alienate you from the gods unless you're doing some evil life-denying israelite kaballah shit.
Aristotle would like to have a word with you.
I actually do have reading comprehension issues thank you for clarifying OPs post
Christians don't say Oh My Holy Trinity!
>He's never heard a southern Belle mutter "Oh Trinity save me now" under her breath after a Yankee frick tries to order unsweetened sweet tea
Skill issue, tee bee aytch
>by the allfather!
>what the devil?
>by the heavens!
>ishtar's breasts!
>fricking hell!
's breasts!
What breasts? She's flat.
Because she got summoned as a pseudo servant over a flatty, Joan of Arc got the opposite and was summoned over a stacked highschooler despite her being relatively flat in history.
Ishtar in my setting is the manly god of gains and therefore has huge pectorals
Just invoke the correct god (or your personal favourite) in the instance relating to them.
Also, it never hurts to mention that pagans didn't have universally accepted codified pantheons.
By the Nine Divines..! Assault! Assault!
You know, I never noticed how contrasting Akatosh is from the others being a random dragon among otherwise human-looking pantheon.