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Underbunny

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:43 pm
It focuses on demonized Deities and I am drawing a blank on some of them
I have:
Hades
Set
Cernunnos
Ba'al
and a few others

I was wondering if anyone would have any other names or information on any of the above that may help me?  
PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:33 pm
if you mean demonized by the early church,
Posidon and Pan come to mind  

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:26 pm
Loki comes to mind as well.

Along with oceantail's question, do you mean demonized specifically by the "Church", or do you simply mean demonized in general, through misinterpretations of myths/lore (or inaccurate portrayals of certain deities through the years)?

The following is a good link on Set, which should be relevant to your paper.  
PostPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 6:34 am
It's mostly I am looking for demonized by the general population
You know like how the media portrays Hades as being the evil god when he is no worse than his brothers  

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:25 pm
That's cool, yeah there are definite a good number of those that have been misrepresented over the years. Usually I find that it's those that have to do with death, or other aspects that the average person is either afraid of, or messes with their ideal of a "rainbows and ponies" type world.

Hel would probably be a good one, though it's not so much that she's been demonized, but more that people sometimes think Hel = going to Hell.  
PostPosted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 11:40 am
Pan gets a lot of flack from modern society. The devil is often times represented as a faun, just like Pan. And they popularize the facet of Pan with lust as a sin, making the transition more overlooked. That is all I got.  

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:40 pm
- Hecate (if you need an example...macbeth)
- Baphomet

that's all I can really think of right now, Rhiannon I'm not sure if she's been "Demonized" or not, but I know she was killed as a witch (or at least that's what I remember)  
PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:29 am
There's Kali. She's definitely been demonized by a lot of people because of her wild, war-like nature and dominion over death. Most everyone forgets that she is also a passionate lover and an extremely maternal woman. Case in point: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.  

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:31 am
I am pretty sure nearly every ancient cannanite(*sp) deity was turned into a demon at some point, this is only a guess becuase of the profuse ammount of demons in certain video games that all start with the line, a cannanite deity... I am unaware of the cannanite pantheon in its totality, but it seems to have quite a few demonized deities  
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