Goddesses of the modern world

[TechBear_Seattle]

What is your favorite goddess of the modern world?

Caffenia, Our Lady of the Latte?

Asphaltia, Mistress of Free Parking Downtown During Workday Hours?

Aunt Jemimah, Mother of All Comfort Food?

Some other?

Please share! :hi:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. One we should pay attention to

is Gaia, Mother Earth....and take care of Her.

[silverweb]

5. Amen!

[ewoden]

2. HeiVelocitia, Goddess of the .338 Lapua

[Sapphocrat]

3. Aw, I'm disappointed!

I was expecting to see my name on the list!

[ThomCat]

6. The Mighty Saphocrat: Goddess of the well deserved beat-down!

Let all the fools and bigots beware!

[Sapphocrat]

17. Thomcat!

You just made me feel so good! *thump thump thump* I am Sapphocrat, hear me roar! :D

[NanceGreggs]

4. Hypocrytia ...

... goddess of the Right Wing.

Perhaps Nuke-em-all, God of PNAC Peace.

Or maybe (for the Fundies) St. Befuddlement, patron saint of the Bush Administration.

(GREAT POST!)

[bloom]

7. re: (GREAT POST!)

that's funny - I thought it was inordinately sexist.

[kiahzero]

11. Um... how do you figure? (n/t)

[TechBear_Seattle]

12. Would my post have been more or less sexist if I asked about gods?

What got me thinking about this was a discussion with friends about various manifestations of the Triple Goddess. The question was which was mightier, the Chocolate Trio (Swiss Miss, Mocha and Lady Godiva) or the Pancake Mothers (Betty Crocker, Mrs. Butterworth and Aunt Jemimah) but as tends to happen when pagans and ex-pagans discuss theology, the subject wandered a bit.

I was curious as to what other DUers might think. No insult or misogyny was intended, quite the opposite. :hi:

[bloom]

13. The trouble is

in a sexist, patriarchal society like the one we live in - where generally the all powerful (or so they say) GOD is thought of as male and few people think of the Goddess (symbolically or otherwise) as having any power - to put up really stupid ideas of the Goddess - just makes it all the worse.


That's how it sounded to me.

[greyl]

22. Is taking offense at the OP

rather than getting the joke, an expression of female power?

[bananas]

8. oops - is Athe a god or a goddess?

sometimes it's hard to tell without peeking under their robes...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=214x101878

[CTyankee]

14. Well, we have Althea, goddess of wisdom, right? But,

my absolute fave is Persephone, the goddess of spring, daughter of Demeter, who was violently abducted by Hades and languished in the underworld until she got sprung and returned to Upper Earth. But before she could get back, Hades tricked her into eating the pomegranate seeds to get her to return to Hades for 3 months of every year. Demeter was furious.

And THAT, dear children is the reason (according to the Greeks)that we have winter!

[StClone]

9. Propagia

She-devil of divergence sound and truth.

Messagana -- Goddess of instant messaging and cell phones.

[NanceGreggs]

10. Let's not forget Messagana's erstwhile daugther ...

... Annoyianca - the deity who protects cell-phone users in quiet restaurants and movie theatres from being throttled by the other customers.

[mongo]

15. Carpentia, Goddess of correct cuts

Had a friend draw a picture of her years ago that hangs in my workshop.

[cosmik debris]

16. Diana

How do you feel when you shoot down your brothers now
And bury us in cages of cement and steel
How do you feel when you look at one another now
Tell me old man, tell me how does it feel?

Sing a song for the children that are gone
Sing a song for Diana
Huntress of the Moon, Lady of the Earth
Weather Woman Diana!

From a song written by Paul Kantner/Grace Slick during a previous war.

[charlie]

18. Paris Hilton

Goddess of the thoroughly banal. She descended from the Big Empty to make us tremble before the sacred powers of marketing and brainless consumerism. Jettison all fruitless pursuit of quality and ability, and you too may one day be thrust up our noses as One Who Matters. Paris shows the way. She is perfect.

[beam me up scottie]

19. Empress Nympho

I miss her.

[Evoman]

20. I don't worship gods OR goddesses. My ass pimple swears that it has no gender.

[bananas]

21. Hermaphrodite? nt

[kwassa]

23. St. Debbie, the Patron Saint of Parking

We prayed mightily to St. Debbie to grant us parking on crowded Los Angeles streets.

Our prayers were often answered, too.

[TechBear_Seattle]

24. I thought it was Doris Day

In all of her movies, there is at least one time where she drives to the downtown during the business day, and the ONE OPEN PARKING SPOT within a mile is right in front of the building she needs.

Most certainly, that requires divine power.

[kwassa]

25. That is also known as the "Perry Mason" space.

He would always drive up to the courthouse, and there would be an open space right in front of the courthouse door.

[Solon]

26. Well, there's this one:

Then there is this one:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. Lady Justice and all those are cool

Statue of Liberty, Lady Justice and Marianne (the leader of the french revolution in the painting by Delacroix) are all cool. Then there's Dame Fortune, also known as Lady Luck.

Mnemosyne, the Goddess of Memory.

Why not make up more goddesses, and dig up the forgotten ones as well?

[Solon]

29. Lady Luck's name is Tyche, and still has a HUGE following if you think about it...

Especially in places like Las Vegas.

[TechBear_Seattle]

28. Alas, neither have much of a following these days. n/t