It's been a while since my last Summon History article. This time I decided against writing an actual article. Instead I will list those crypt cards who refer to certain gods and give you a link to some sites. I think most of us do know some basic stuff about these deities, but I thought that it might be nice to have the complete list here. So here they are, by alphabetical order:
Ankou
Cybele
Huitzilopochtli
Louhi
Mictlantecuhtli
Nergal
Sutekh
Voodoo gods (Loa)
Others (Semi-gods, spirits, giants, etc)
If you guys know of any other god being a v:tes crypt card, please tell me!
by: Mephistopheles
Oh!
ReplyDeleteI forget to list Frederick the Weak, the God of all multi-rush decks. Sorry for that ;)
Louhi (how's that deck coming along?) is a sort of a witch-goddess as well being a Kalevala (Finnish national epic) larger-than-life villain:
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...oh yeah, also Ankou
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And, pretty weirdly, Nakhthorheb is an alternative name for Nectanebo II who was a Pharaoh (and Pharaohs were gods):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectanebo_II
Thanks Matias! I will add Louhi and Ankou to the list. The Pharaohs I will post seperatly.
ReplyDeleteI didn't play v:tes for a long time, so I didn't have a chance to play the Louhi deck.
Baron Samedi is a voodoo god of death. Papa Legba is voodoo god (loa) of... hell of a lot of things mainly fate and crossroads, and information... a messenger god. Enkidu is a sumerian demigod. Erinyi (Erinys) - grecian godess of vengeance only named after them though, not a full WoD counterpart. Same way some of the salubri antitribu are named after angels. Obaluaye is an orisha god of disease. And yea there are a lot of pharaos - but I actually don't count those.
ReplyDeleteThank you Eshu! Isn't Enkidu the human guy from the Gilgames Epos?
ReplyDeleteHe was created by the gods as Gilgamesh's equal I think he was more of an epic character like Hercules - who was still revered later as a god of strenght... Probably a matter of interpretation if an equal to a demigod is a demigod heh... I am not totally sure in this one. am better at voodoo pantheon than ancient sumerian stories...
ReplyDeleteAriadne was married to Dionysus and made a goddess. She was jilted by Theseus whom she helped to kill her half-brother the minotaur.
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