Mission 012: Choose your God

Guess who? That's right Kate of Wednesday come around again to update the blog. My sincerest thanks to Aoife for writing her post last week. At least now I won't have to change the blog name to 'cool kate of every and any nationality' or something equally terrifying.

This week's theme is Greek and Roman gods. After doing a small bit of research I discovered that there are still people today who worship Greek and Roman gods. I'd never given much thought to it before but I presumed they were dead religions. It's not the kind of thing you hear about.

There was this one God apparently worshipped by the Greeks known as Agnostos Theos or the Unknown God. Basically they were covering their backs in case it turned out they were worshipping the wrong Gods when judgement day came. They had a special temple dedicated to this Unknown deity. It seems their reasoning was that since they believed there was a god for everything from the sunset to love then chances were they hadn't discovered them all yet. So it's best not to piss off a God you don't even know exists, right?

Allegedly this Agnostos Theos originated at a time when Athens was suffering from a plague. In a desperate attempt to satisfy the Gods a flock of sheep was set loose and wherever they stopped to rest a sacrifice was made to the God of that place. However as it turned out one or more sheep stopped where there was no designated God. So the Greeks erected a temple without any God's name on it and made a sacrifice to any God willing to accept.

Greek Mythology 101 completed. Come back Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week when there will definitely be three more posts published on the topic.

MISSION...........................................................................COMPLETED