Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Saint Arbutus

In spite of still being alive, Arbutus was promoted to Saint Level 1 early in the mid-80s. Many people, including followers have tried (unsuccessfully) to kill Arbutus. These assassination attempts are often misguided and even capricious. However, in what is rumored to be his 300 year long life, Arbutus has never actually perished.

Early in his career, his followers attempted to View Him as a God. However, Arbutus refused this mantle. His curt, though revealing refrain was, "It's not worth The Hassle."

Recipients of Saint Level 1 designation receive higher credit ratings, access to more cable channels and limitless access to The Glass Elevator.

Arbutus still bears the mark of a Would-Be Assassin's bullet in the middle of his forehead.

Arbutus is registered at Target® and Linens 'n' Things™.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Tawny, the shy god

Tawny was one of the first gods to show up on the god scene. Because of her beard, she tends to be somewhat withdrawn in most god (and even mortal) gatherings. Having somewhat conservative leanings, she is often regarded lowly in many deified legislatures. Her standard response to nearly every problem is, "Kill 'em all, let me sort 'em out." While this is a somewhat bold statement, she almost always whispers it with her head down.

"Who cares about sorting them out," is the usual retort from other gods.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Achimichimigaya wears the Lincoln Mask

Never one to be outdone, Achimichimigaya wrestles the Lincoln Mask from Manny, trods over to the CD player, tosses out the Cocteau Twins CD and replaces it with some Malmsteen, then proceeds to do some rather erudite air guitar.

Achimichimigaya



Achimichimigaya is a god who enjoys listening to loud Hair Metal in an upstairs bedroom of a 3 story Colonial near a small lake. This is the reality he has created for himself. He tends to stay to himself, but once angered his wrath builds upon itself to World Killing proportions. Ironically, he is easily angered and has a great deal of trouble finding worlds to rule.

Once his wrath begins to grow exponentially, there is only one way to stop him. A mortal must stand before the lake he has made and scream at just the right pitch. Once this pitch is reached, the lake lifts up like a blanket and stuffs itself into a hole where the sun once was in the sky. The lake is his power. But the only way it can be destroyed is through the destruction of the illusion of light.

Once the lake is gone, the light is gone, then Achimichimigaya is gone.

Manny wears the Lincoln Mask

There's one thing you can count on when the gods party; It's never too long before someone drags the Lincoln mask out!

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

The God Yorg


Yorg was the god of adolescent males fascinated with Nazis and defacing women's magazines. He was most active between the years 1979 and 1985. At the peak of his power, his followers would hold court in trailer-style temples cutting eyes from photos of models in women's magazines and reading nonchalantly from Mein Kampf with no sense of irony.

Towards the end of his tenure, Yorg's followers attempted to reformulate his persona as a kind of deified politico. However, his powers were already waning at a rate that paralleled the growth of his followers' reasoning abilities and developing empathic responses to tragedy.

Yorg's message and rallying cry disappeared in the throaty birdsong of the New Morning.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Toru's Eyes


One pupil is diamond-shaped, the other is round. With the round pupil, Toru sees through souls. With the diamond pupil, Toru sees the many facades built up around a soul.

The God Toru


Toru hovers over fields, byways and coastal regions. Every now and again he mates with a mortal. His children are many. He protects all of his children with swift justice and sees to it that they are never harmed by followers wishing to sacrifice them on a whim.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Cuthbert; Idiot savant/prophet/prodigy


Before Cuthbert was born, his parents set about procuring the details of a secret ritual to conceive a magical child. After having read some details in the stolen grimoire of a rival witch, they performed a semi-Tantric union underneath the Narwhals in the Narwhal exhibit in the Field Museum (after hours). However, the rival witch had knowingly supplied them with a dummy grimoire. The ritual Cuthbert's parents had performed would produce an Idiot Savant With Enlarged Tusk as opposed to a Magical Child. However, Cuthbert's True Self was strong and struggled against the Front Most Self. He began writing seedy pulp novels at age 8, and went on to rework every single Holy Text known to humankind.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Manny, a mediocre god


So, like, Manny is this weird freaky god with like a totally cleft chin. He like sticks his tongue out a lot and it's like got these totally huge tastebuds and like he always talks about how good chicken nuggets taste and he like doesn't do too much other than talk about nuggets and sometimes bacon. He like doesn't do too totally much for his followers. He does like send them a card every year during the holidays. But he always like puts in this like totally snarky line like, "Dude, where's my present." Sometimes he totally freaks and sets kittens on fire.