Quiet deities

[Snow]

I don't really feel comfortable with most of the gods and goddesses I've encountered. Their personalities are too big, and I'm the type of person who gets an adrenaline rush by doing a jigsaw puzzle on a rainy day.

I am looking for a quiet, sweet-tempered deity who doesn't demand much. Any ideas?

[Agaliha]

Nebt-Het (aka Nephthys) comes to mind.
I've heard she's quiet and soft-spoken and more in the background.

Kemet.org Names of Netjer : Nebt-Het (http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkwtBkEhIIGAA83lXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByZWgwN285BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkAw--/SIG=11v4do52e/EXP=1212801473/**http%3a//www.kemet.org/glossary/nebt-het.html)
Egypt: Nephthys, Sister of Isis, Mistress of the House (http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGknCukEhI8XsBFPlXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByN2s4bDgzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNARjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkAw--/SIG=122mtrgks/EXP=1212801582/**http%3a//touregypt.net/godsofegypt/nephthys2.htm)
Per Nebt-Het (http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/wily/nebthet.html)
Some other info (http://www.wepwawet.org/wiki/index.php?title=Nebt-het)
Nephthys - Wikipedia (http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGknCukEhI8XsBDvlXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByZWgwN285BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkAw--/SIG=11ptvmip2/EXP=1212801582/**http%3a//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephthys)
Egypt: Gods - Nephthys (http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGknCukEhI8XsBEPlXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByZ3RtN3J1BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkAw--/SIG=11polvjj7/EXP=1212801582/**http%3a//www.touregypt.net/nephthys.htm)

[Philosophia]

Dea Tacita is called "the silent goddess".


In Roman mythology, Dea Tacita ("the silent goddess") was a goddess of the dead. In later times, she was equated with the earth goddess Larunda.

From here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dea_Tacita).

Hestia or Vesta come across as quiet Goddesses.

[Agaliha]

Oh, good ones Philosophia! :)

[Snow]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check them out. Keep them coming. :thumbsup:

Does anyone know much about Idunn? She seems very gentle, but I don't if she's what I'm looking for.

[Snow]

Okay, sorry to double post, but I have to say that I am in love with Hestia! I've been reading all about her ever since I last posted. She is quiet, kind, and virgin (like me). From what I've seen so far, she is not just a goddess of the home but all the qualities of the home--warmth, stability, comfort, peace.

Thanks for mentioning her, Philosophia. I don't even need to think about this. I've found my goddess!

[Gyda]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check them out. Keep them coming. :thumbsup:

Does anyone know much about Idunn? She seems very gentle, but I don't if she's what I'm looking for.

http://www.wyrdwords.vispa.com/goddesses/idhun/index.html

try this link for Idhun.

Gyda

[Silverfire Darkmoon]

I've always thought of Anubis as quiet. He's the son of Osiris and Nephthys, and could have been ruler of Egypt instead of Horus (because he was born first). Anubis instead chose to go with his father to the land of the dead and operate Ma'at's scales. Anubis seems to be a very quiet, shadowy, out-of-people's-way god to me.

[TaysatWesir]

I don't really feel comfortable with most of the gods and goddesses I've encountered. Their personalities are too big, and I'm the type of person who gets an adrenaline rush by doing a jigsaw puzzle on a rainy day.

I am looking for a quiet, sweet-tempered deity who doesn't demand much. Any ideas?

Wesir from my experience with him is a quiet, sweet-tempered deity who doesn't demand much. :)

http://www.wesir.org/
http://www.wepwawet.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wesir

[Dark_Tezcatlipoca]

Howabout one that doesn't exist? That way you don't have to worry about your prayers being answered.

[carpy_dime]

There are two Gods with whom I commune, both very old, who have been quiet for a very, very long time now. In fact, they would consider it indecent of me to mention them by name, for they have long foregone the use of any names and the names they once used have been corrupted and misused. But their presence is palpable almost anywhere, and likely as not you already know them... In silence they await, if you are willing to look.

[Cinnamon1991]

I don't really feel comfortable with most of the gods and goddesses I've encountered. Their personalities are too big, and I'm the type of person who gets an adrenaline rush by doing a jigsaw puzzle on a rainy day.

I am looking for a quiet, sweet-tempered deity who doesn't demand much. Any ideas?

It can be I interpreted the post wrong, but from my point of view, you're serving the deity so it's not like you're searching for a date who has to have this or that trait. If your deity's personality is too big for you, this can be good to learn something 'cause probably the deity tries to tell/teach you something.


That's just my opinion.

[darkwhispersdale]

I find Maat and Thoth very quiet

[Fiamma]

I don't really feel comfortable with most of the gods and goddesses I've encountered. Their personalities are too big, and I'm the type of person who gets an adrenaline rush by doing a jigsaw puzzle on a rainy day.

I am looking for a quiet, sweet-tempered deity who doesn't demand much. Any ideas?

Hmmm...I really can't make any suggestions here because no matter what the textbook description of a deity, and no matter what my personal experience, it's not going to be the same for you. Let me give you an example....

If I posted here saying I was looking for a wild party-animal kind of deity, one who really likes to kick up their heels and go crazy, domes to donuts someone's gonna say Dionysus, right?

Well, I've had some experience with Dionysus and maybe I'm just weird...but Dionysus shows himself to me as this quiet, painfully civilized guy in a black suit so sharp you'll get cut on the creases. it's pretty obvious that all the well-known Dionysus stuff lurks beneath the surface...but to me he just looms quiet and imposing, like the men in black.

Similarly, some of my experience with Hestia hasn't exactly been the quiet, retiring virgin. And Apollo? Freakin' scary and constantly morphing in appearance, not the nice, civilized musical/poetry guy most people think of.

In my own experience, the deities that don't show up as larger than life, demanding, scary, overbearing etc are the ones that I worship as I frequently put it "at arm's length"....I don't worship them very closely or extensively, I don't serve them, they really ask nothing of me, I ask nothing of them. I simply give to them on occasion for no other reason than simply because I want to, and in respect to their relationship to Apollo. Leto is Apollo's mother, and Asteria, her sister, became the island of Delos where he was born...Leto (who is generally seen to be a very gentle and benevolent goddess- I have no idea if that holds when one gets "up close and personal"...I've never encountered anyone who gives her major worship, in general, most of those I've talked to who worship her at all are followers of Artemis and/or Apollo and do so out of respect for her maternal relationship to them.) and Asteria...I've never run into anyone else who's ever so much as lit a stick of incense in her honor, so far as I know, so...I have no idea really.

As I see it, if you're trying to get close at all to the gods, they'll present themselves to you in the way they want to, basically because, well, they're *gods* and there's a lot more to them than just the myths and that quiet, demure goddess probably has a less than quiet and demure side, and she may very well choose to show it to you if it serves her purpose.

[aluokaloo]

Quan Yin
Hestia
Vesta
Persephone is a real sweetheart of a Goddess! She's awesome you'd love Her!
Ameterasu seems to be a gentle Goddess
Anubis seemed to me to be easy going
Zehyrus is laid back he does like his practical jokes.

[Fiamma]

Persephone is a real sweetheart of a Goddess! She's awesome you'd love Her!

...that is, until you meet her less pleasant side. "Persephone" meaning "Destroyer of light" (Kore is the springtime flower-gathering innocent side)



Zehyrus is laid back he does like his practical jokes.

Diverting a thrown discus to kill another god's lover out of jealousy is a bit more than a practical joke....

[NefertSatSekhmet]

Kwan Yin comes to mind

[Caitlin.ann]

Personally speaking, I've found Cernunnos to be a quiet deity. He doesn't demand much at all and little is known about him anymore.

[Heart of All]

I agree with Fiamma. Gods are not the same to different people.

But if you want my take...Frigga. She knows everyone's fate, but never speaks it. And I spend a lot of time trying to get her to talk to me, and she's eternally silent.

[aluokaloo]

...that is, until you meet her less pleasant side. "Persephone" meaning "Destroyer of light" (Kore is the springtime flower-gathering innocent side)



Diverting a thrown discus to kill another god's lover out of jealousy is a bit more than a practical joke....

:wtf: I wasn't referring specificaly to the myths Fiamma thank you.

[Meadhbh]

Flidais comes to mind. She's quiet but in a soild way.

[oneworld]

The Green Man has been very gentle in my experience. He's as soft as moss and as silent as still dew.

In my opinion (which isn't worth much, as everyone's experience of the divine will be different), Idunna from the Norse pantheon is very quiet as well.

[Nitefalle]

Personally speaking, I've found Cernunnos to be a quiet deity. He doesn't demand much at all and little is known about him anymore.

I find that Cernunnos can be very demanding, I would definitely never cross him.



But if you want my take...Frigga. She knows everyone's fate, but never speaks it. And I spend a lot of time trying to get her to talk to me, and she's eternally silent.

Really? I find Frigga can be very talkative. :)

Isn't it interesting how the gods manifest themselves so differently??

[Caitlin.ann]

I find that Cernunnos can be very demanding, I would definitely never cross him.



I've gotten the feeling that he shouldn't be crossed like you mentioned but with me he's been rather kind and gentle..and patient.

[Philosophia]

From my previous post, I mentioned Dea Tacita. There is also Dea Muta (or just Muta "the silent Goddess") but they can be seen as the same one or two separate Goddesses.

[Starry Night]

I have found that Ganesh is pretty easy going, as well as Brigid (Some of the time)..Tara, and Quan Yin both have a silent power, but you still know and feel their presence when they're around, Or when you're calling out to them.

[Son of Goddess]

Dea Tacita is actually the nymph Lara whose tongue was cut out by Jupiter, this is why She is often referred to by the epithets Tacita (Silent) and Muta (Mute). Ancient authors have variously described Her as being the same as Larunda, a deity who is connected to the chthonic earth and thus the underworld. Because of the Her name, Lara, She is believed by some to be the Mater Larum, or Mother of the Lares.

However, because of these various associations some say She is Mania, the Goddess of death and Mother of the Lares. If we are to agree that Lara is Mania, I wouldn't suggest anyone looking for a 'quiet deity' to turn to Her. Mania was often used as a means to scare children into doing something, very much like the modern day boogyman and so on.

Also, we shouldn't confuse Muta with Mater Matuta. Mater Matuta is the Goddess of the dawn as well as childbirth.

[David19]

Dea Tacita is actually the nymph Lara whose tongue was cut out by Jupiter, this is why She is often referred to by the epithets Tacita (Silent) and Muta (Mute). Ancient authors have variously described Her as being the same as Larunda, a deity who is connected to the chthonic earth and thus the underworld. Because of the Her name, Lara, She is believed by some to be the Mater Larum, or Mother of the Lares.

However, because of these various associations some say She is Mania, the Goddess of death and Mother of the Lares. If we are to agree that Lara is Mania, I wouldn't suggest anyone looking for a 'quiet deity' to turn to Her. Mania was often used as a means to scare children into doing something, very much like the modern day boogyman and so on.

Also, we shouldn't confuse Muta with Mater Matuta. Mater Matuta is the Goddess of the dawn as well as childbirth.

Cool info, Son of Goddess, I didn't know any info about that, thanks for sharing :).