Episode 178 How to worldbuild a fantasy pantheon

Today's Topic Create a new Pantheons in fantasy fiction

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The bigger benefit for me was increased focus. It was another major issue of mine. However, that is a story for a different day.

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Podcast Show Flow

• Not just for polytheism
• Chief god or God
• Major gods or archangels
• Minor god / Angels or Major Saint
• Demigods / Guardian Angel or Saints
• Evil minor gods / Demons
• Evil major gods / Devil of the Seven Deadly sins (Peter Binsfeld 1589
• • Lucifer: pride, Mammon: greed, Asmodeus: lust, Leviathan: envy, Beelzebub: gluttony, Satan: wrath, Belphegor: sloth
• Cultural Evolution round up (Or substitute world)
• • Explain the natural world
  • Explain the sky
  • Explain the traditions (How to be moral in the culture)
  • Explain the good and bad in people
  • Remember better times
  • Explain the old
  • Path to the afterlife
  • Path to a better life
  • Rituals are ways to appease or bribe gods
• Beware of the rabbit hole (Frame it!)

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