UI student group to host 'Gods' display
This 2014 photos shows the inaugural "Graveyard of the Gods" display on the University of Iowa Penacrest by the group Secular Students at Iowa. The group is planning to hold a similar display on Oct. 30. (Photo: Submitted photo / Secular Students at Iowa)
Jeff Charis-Carlson, jcharisc@press-citizen.com
4:43 p.m. CDT October 20, 2015
Secular Students at Iowa, a group for agnostic and atheist University of Iowa students, is planning to host its second annual "Graveyard of Gods" display on the UI Pentacrest during Halloween week.
As with last year’s display, the group plans to fill an area near the Old Capitol with about 50 tombstones that each contain the name of an ancient deity. The display is scheduled to be up from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 30.
“We tried to get a broad collection of gods from various cultures,” said Ian Wold, the student group's public relations coordinator. "We wanted a good sample to show that this is a trend throughout history and throughout culture.”
Some of the gods featured on the tombstones will include:
•The Dagda, a father-figure and protector god of Irish mythology.
•Perkunas, the Baltic god of thunder and an important deity within Lithuanian and Latvian mythology.
•Jupiter, the king of the Roman pantheon.
•Loki, the trickster god of Norse mythology.
•Ogoun, a Latin American warrior god and a spirit of metal work.
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