42 Months of Gods

[sdi]

I've been blogging here for three-and-a-half years. I thought it might be fun to see how often I reference various divinities in that time. I was surprised by the results!

1. Apollo or Helios or Sol or the Sun: 998 times
2. Aphrodite or Venus: 797 times
3. The One or the Good or the Tao: 545 times
4. Angel or Dæmon (various spellings) or my deity: 284 times
5. Eros or Cupid or capital-L Love: 222 times
6. Jove or Zeus or Jupiter: 107 times
7. Kronos (various spellings) or Saturn: 87 times
8. Ares or Mars: 79 times
9. Artemis or Diana or Selene or Luna or the Moon: 71 times
10. Hermes or Mercury: 69 times
11. Ouranos (various spellings): 51 times
12. Hera or Juno: 30 times
13. Poseidon or Neptune: 27 times
14. Pan: 23 times
15. Athena or Minerva or Pallas: 22 times
16. Dionysus or Bacchus: 21 times

I also found a scattered few references each for Persephone/Proserpine/Kore, Hades/Pluto, Demeter/Ceres, Eris/capital-D-Discord, Heracles/Hercules, Inanna/Ishtar/Astarte, Osiris, and Isis. I figure there's probably at least a hundred references to the Intellect/Nous/etc., but I have been so inconsistent with terminology there that I didn't even attempt a search.

I was so sure that Venus was going to top the list by a large margin that I figured I'd have to anticipate the old "men always think about sex" joke. I was surprised to see that She wasn't even first place! That's probably because of all the philosophy I go on about...