God Draft :: Final Words, Voting and Discussion

Here's the vote of the Squiggish jury:

Pantheons:
1. Spejic's Pantheon (2nd in novelty)
2. Isdmitje's pantheon (1st in novelty)
3. Benztown's Pantheon (3rd in novelty)

Gods:
1. Coyote (1st in novelty)
2. Anansi (2nd in novelty)
3. Toinatiuh (3rd in novelty)

JeremyEritrea (3 in novelty)
Spejic (1 in novelty)
Ismitje (2 in novelty)

Horned God (1 in novelty)
Poseidon (3 in novelty)
Ach Puch (2 in novelty)

I almost did Quetzalcoatl and wish I'd thought of Hanuman, damn....

I've gotta reread all these suckers and will try to get my vote in later today.

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nicephoras
luftmensch
JeremyEritrea
spejic
Pønch
Ismitje

Pantheons:

1: benztown (2 in novelty)
2: knave (1 in novelty)
3: YankHibee (3 in novelty)

Gods and Goddesses:

1: Thor (99,999 in novelty)
2: Veles (2 in novelty)
3: Don Vincent (1 in novelty)

Pantheons:

1: Ismitje (2 in novelty)
2: spejic (1 in novelty)
3: Gordon EF (3 in novelty)

Gods and Goddesses:

1: Prince Phillip (1 in novelty)
2: Roman Nikolai Ungern-Sternberg (2 in novelty)
3: Grandpa Wenteya (3 in novelty)

I probably ought to start adding these votes up.

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nicephoras
luftmensch
Pønch
Ismitje

Unofficial awards:

Best post: Ismitje for Tane-rore, because that dance clip was awesome.

Best unpicked god: Raj Patel, the only god to be interviewed on the Colbert Report.

I recommend 3 points for first, 60 points for second, and 1 point for third. That seems fair to me.

We need more votes. The top pantheon goes to tiebreakers as it currently stands.

And the race for top god or goddess is wide open.

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nicephoras
luftmensch
Pønch

Time is running out ...

Whichever god rigged this thing so it ended right before taxes are due gets mega-negative awesome votes from me.

Within the hour....

That would be the god that prevented me from getting my shit together about this over the weekend.

Chip, chop! Time's a wasting!

Alright, here we go:

Pantheon:

1. Karloski (3 in novelty
2. GordonEF (1 in novelty)
3. Norsk Troll (2 in novelty)

God:

1. Kali (2 in novelty)
2. Angra Mainyu (1 in novelty)
3. Kokopeli (3 in novelty)

And here are the results ...

Awesomeness score on the leftmost column, novelty tie-breaker where applicable and worthwhile in parentheses next to it.

Grand Prize: Awesomest Pantheon

Winner: spejic

Code:

14	-----	spejic
13	-----	Gordon EF
10	-----	Ismitje
7	(6)	benztown
7	(5)	JeremyEritrea
6	(5)	Norsk Troll
6	(2)	Karloski
5	(5)	a.s.f.
5	(4)	luftmensch
3	-----	Knave
1	(2)	Pønch
1	(1)	YankHibee
0	-----	96Squig
0	-----	Bluto11
0	-----	nicephoras

Honorable Mention: Awesomest single god or goddess of them all

Winner: Gordon EF’s Kali

Code:

8 (6)	Kali (Hindu)
8 (4)	Thor (Norse) 
6	Horned God (Wicca)
5	Ganesha (Hindu)
4	Huitzilopochtli (Aztec)
3	Ahura Mazda (Zoroastrian)
3	Charon (Greek)
3	Coyote (American Indian)
3	John Frum (Vanuatu)
3	Loki (Norse)
3	Pele (Hawaii)
3	Prince Phillip (Yaohnanen)
2	Anansi (West Africa)
2	Angra Mainyu (Persia)
2	Haile Selassie (Rastafari)
2	Khonvoum (Mbuti)
2	Poseidon (Greek)
2	Roman Nikolai Ungern-Sternberg (Mongolia)
2	Ryujin (Japan)
2	Sun Wo Kong (China)
2	Veles (Slavic)
1	Ah Puch (Mayan)
1	Don Vincent (American)
1	Grandpa Wenteyao (Mapuche)
1	Jasy Jatere (Guarani)
1	Kokopelli (American Indian)
1	Priapus (Greek)
1	Ra (Egypt)
1	Satan (Hebrew)
1	Susanoo (Japan)
1	Tonatiuh (Aztec)

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I'm just glad that five of my gods got at least some support for awesomest single god or goddess of them all.

Thank you, thank you. Now when people claim I don't know anything about gods, I can simply point to this thread.

Except the people you generally argue with don't much cotton to trickster gods.

I'm impressed that you bounced back after that little Xenu setback.

And I'm just happy that the god I voted awesomest did indeed win awesomest.

I'm happy that Thor lost.

And I'm disappointed that Ahura Mazda, the ur-god of all Western monotheistic creator gods, didn't get more awesome support. My other two picks were classic representations of a saviour-god (John Frum) and evil (Satan).

As for my pantheon picks, my top two choices (Ismitje and spejic) went to people who tried to give their pantheons an overall coherent character. My third choice went to a.s.f because his pantheon, although not exactly coherent, had a really nice diversity of different kinds of gods from different places all over the world. Maybe they weren't the most fearsome or wondrous as some others, but they were all different and interesting and for some reason that pantheon struck me as balanced and strong in a way that others (like my own) were not. That said, a.s.f.'s pantheon was not the most novel one out there.

I think everyone did a good job. I certainly learned a lot about human cultures in this thread, both from my own research and from all the posts. This really was an intro to religion course, but more entertaining.

Well, I'm done arguing for the time being, so that's ok.

Would just like to point out that my Pantheon finished 6th, without any god/dess getting a single vote for the solo awesomeness competition. Now THAT's a case for the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. My pantheon - the hardest working gods in the universe. All substance - no flash.

And my pantheon finished 10th despite 5 of my gods and goddesses getting an awesome nod. I don't want to talk about it ...