'Malevolent' Gods

[saint dreya]

Triste-chan

If you're refering to asura, then I would say that they aren't necessarily evil in the sense that western demons are. Or such is my understanding.

true. i don't know if i was thinking in terms of western thought that demons are associated with...hmm, oh well.

Elfin Brill

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Mars was the Roman god of war, the son of Juno and either Jupiter or a magical flower. As the word Mars has no Indo-European derivation, it is most likely the Latinized form of the agricultural Etruscan god Maris. Initially the Roman god of fertility and vegetation and a protector of cattle, fields and boundaries, Mars later became associated with battle (perhaps as the growing Roman Empire found it necessary to expand in order to feed itself) and identified with the Greek god Ares. He was also a tutelary god of Rome, and as the legendary father of its founder, Romulus, it was believed that all Romans were descended of Mars.

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i'd be hesitant regarding the coupling. with pre-Hellenic Roman gods, there didn't seem to be too much coupling. when they adopted many of the Greek ways, gods that were never seen together were now 'married'...i believe Juno and Jupiter might be one of those 'marriages'...back to Pagan Europe for me!  

[Fiddlers Green]

Being a divinity does not exempt one from being scum.
It's just a different race of scum... far more powerful...

In some faiths, there are dieties with specific dominion over Evil, as a concept.
I know how much some people hate the God of this that or the other routine... but it has and does happen.
In fact, in at least one faith... all that is good falls under one divinity's dominion, and all that is evil, the other... ninja  

[TeaDidikai]

Fiddlers Green

I know how much some people hate the God of this that or the other routine... but it has and does happen.

Only when it is inaccurate.
We all know how much Deo loves to hear Freya is a Moon Goddess.

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In fact, in at least one faith... all that is good falls under one divinity's dominion, and all that is evil, the other... ninja

~petpetpet~  

[Fiddlers Green]

Of course, the ascribing of good and evil was something of an afterthought... beneficient and malevolent may be more accurate descriptors. ninja  

[TeaDidikai]

Fiddlers Green

Of course, the ascribing of good and evil was something of an afterthought... beneficient and malevolent may be more accurate descriptors. ninja

Hmmmmm...

Query- do you universally hold Malevolent to be Evil?  

[Fiddlers Green]

TeaDidikai

Hmmmmm...

Query- do you universally hold Malevolent to be Evil?

No, not exactly... it's very hard to describe the subtle difference...
Malevolence indicates a desire to or a purpose to harm... evil does not need something to harm... they are very close (from a human perspective) concepts, but entirely interchangeable.  

[TeaDidikai]

Fiddlers Green

TeaDidikai

Hmmmmm...

Query- do you universally hold Malevolent to be Evil?

No, not exactly... it's very hard to describe the subtle difference...
Malevolence indicates a desire to or a purpose to harm... evil does not need something to harm... they are very close (from a human perspective) concepts, but entirely interchangeable.

Then is he a god of malevolence or a god of evil?  

[Fiddlers Green]

TeaDidikai

Then is he a god of malevolence or a god of evil?

I think it is easiest to say he/she/it is an Evil God of Malevolence (and cold, and darkness, and fear, and anger, and violence, and night, and death, and secrets, and mysteries, and the subterranean world, and... ad 1/2 of infinitum). 3nodding  

[TeaDidikai]

Fiddlers Green

TeaDidikai

Then is he a god of malevolence or a god of evil?

I think it is easiest to say he/she/it is an Evil God of Malevolence (and cold, and darkness, and fear, and anger, and violence, and night, and death, and secrets, and mysteries, and the subterranean world, and... ad 1/2 of infinitum). 3nodding

Perhaps the best discription of "it" I have ever read  

[Fiddlers Green]

TeaDidikai

Perhaps the best discription of "it" I have ever read

I truely do wish English had a gender neutral pronoun which didn't tend to indicate an object. confused