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sdi ([personal profile] sdi) wrote2023-12-09 02:43 pm

42 Months of Gods

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...