If I want a made up God then I'll have Aslan

[Angrboda]

I don't know. Loki was pretty nasty. He killed Balder, and he used Hoder to do it. That's like, Sylar kind of psycho. The strange thing is, in India's religions, particularly the heterodox strains, there is a recurring trope of a pair of souls, united throught the multiple reincarnations in samsara, to always end up together, and resulting in each other's fate being fulfilled. For example, the Jain saint Vajraghosa, in one of his incarnations is reincarnated as an elephant. His soul 'brother', due to evil, has descended to being a snake. In jealousy and anger, the snake bites Vajraghosa, sending searing pain up the leg that was bitten. "But in spite of terrific pain, Vajraghoşa did not forget his hermit vows [of silence]. He died the death called 'the peaceful death of absolute renunciation,' and was born immediately in the twelfth heaven as the god Śaśi-prabhā, 'Splendor of the Moon'."

So even in final death, the good brother ascends, the bad brother descends. (This seems to echo themes in Buddhism regarding causality, dependent origination and so on, but the interesting thing to note, is there appear to be multiple levels of karma at play - the bad brother seems 'fated' to always descend, but what determines your fate? Your karma, which then is determined by his fate, determined by karma, by fate, by karma... he seems to be, as the libertarians would put it, "taxed twice on the same income.")

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Gods are out of the running right off the bat. Goddesses..hmn,, maybe even asian goddesses....I could worship



Or at least little bits of her.....

Ah yes.... A goddess of a different sort, a Devi for the Devi. I am not completely immune to the charms of the more terrestrial goddesses.

Navia Nguyen. Interesting choice. Long time favorite?