Like, would Hephaestus be the god of magnetos, distributors and capacitor discharge ignition systems? Or does that count as lightning and thus be Zeus’ problem? Is Oden the god of whiskey because it necessarily must be made in oak barrels, or being booze would that fall under Dionysus? Is Mercury the god of SMS?
I don’t think the designers of the game intended for it to be played this way.
Dionysus was the god of wine-making not booze, so even if you mix pantheons, if anyone in the Greek Pantheon would have a conflict with anything related with cereals it would be Demeter, but her responsibility ended at harvest so it’s fine. Zeus uses thunderbolts as weapons but they are made by Hephaestos, so electronics would be on the latter’s sphere.
Doing a quick Google search, apparently Silenus was the god of beer and drinking so he’d probably get custody of whiskey and other spirits unless specifically delegated to another god like wine.
Removed by mod
IT makes me wonder…
First of all one has to remember that the ancient Greeks weren’t as united as we think of them now; I’ve heard it described as “a collection of city-states that mostly spoke the same language and worshipped some of the same gods.” But even within that, or swapping ancient Greece for ancient Rome…how much innovation really took place during those eras? How many old men died in the same world they were born in having seen nothing of note change about society?
Meanwhile, just look at the United States Navy. In 200 years we went from building ships like the USS Constitution to the USS Monitor to the USS Nimitz. There were Americans who read about the invention of the airplane in the newspapers who also watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon live on television. Those events were only 65.5 years apart.
How would a polytheistic religion full of “gods of something” cope with or support that level of progress? I associate the industrial revolution almost exclusively with North America and Western Europe who were and are related flavors of monotheistic.
And who’d be the god of corporate hostile takeovers? :o
Plouton was the god of wealth iirc so maybe him?
I mean isn’t that literally what Zeus did to the Titans? Older gods of a different mountain being usurped by new hip gods
What you’re thinking about is one of the main plot points of the book fiction book “American Gods”. The premise being that gods cease to exist without followers. So the old gods need to attach themselves to new things/subjects to scoop up those worshipers and continue to exist.
An example Vulcan became the god of firearms and began manufacturing ammunition where each bullet fired was a “prayer” to him, empowering him.
came to mention american gods. love how the god of trees to paper to money.
Jeff the god of biscuits.
Jethro, god of processed corn snacks.
Sure, why not!
as always Elpis is still absent
