Fallen Gods

Conquest The radiant queen of the Hittite heavens who crowned every king, her light extinguished when her empire turned to ash.

Conquest The storm-god who toppled his own father to rule the Hurrian heavens, thrown down at last by the collapse of the empires that named him.

Conquest The god who was Assyria itself, who fell silent the very moment his empire was burned to the ground.

Conquest The axe-wielding Luwian storm-god who drove a bull-drawn chariot through the thunder, his name dying with the last who spoke Luwian.

Forgotten A name half-god, half-rite, demonized by scripture and remembered chiefly as a furnace for children.

Assimilation The Etruscan god of wells and the deep sea, his trident handed over to Neptune as his own name slipped beneath the water.

Assimilation The Etruscan sky-king who hurled three kinds of thunderbolt, absorbed so completely into Jupiter that he kept no name of his own.

Assimilation The shape-shifting chief god of the Etruscan league, whose sacred festival ended along with the nation that gathered there.

Forgotten The violent maiden who waded thigh-deep in the blood of warriors to avenge her brother Baal.

Forgotten The remote sky-father at the very top of heaven, so far above that the prayers eventually stopped reaching him at all.

Forgotten Grain-god of Mesopotamia turned Philistine patron, whose idol toppled before the Ark and never rose again.

Forgotten The shepherd-god who died each year so the harvest could live, mourned for millennia and now mourned by no one.

Forgotten The cunning god of fresh water and wisdom who saved humankind from the flood, now drowned in the silence of his own waters.

Forgotten Lord of wind and command who once decreed the fates of gods and men, his word now scattered like the air he ruled.

Forgotten Dread queen of the land of no return, who kept the dead behind seven gates and now keeps only silence.

Forgotten The queen of love and war who descended into the underworld and returned, yet found no return from the silence that swallowed her temples.

Forgotten The dragon-slayer who rose to king of all gods in Babylon, now silent under the desert that buried his city.

Forgotten Death itself, with a lip to earth and a lip to sky, who swallowed Baal and was ground to dust for it.

Forgotten Divine scribe who held the stylus that recorded every fate, his clay tablets now read by no worshipper.

Forgotten God of plague, war and the scorching noon sun, who marched into the underworld to rule it, and there fell quiet.

Forgotten The mountain mother who shaped humankind from clay, her nurturing name long since gone barren in memory.

Forgotten The all-seeing sun who judged the deeds of every living thing, now blind to the worshippers who no longer look up.

Forgotten The primordial salt-sea whose slain body became the sky and earth, now as voiceless as the chaos she once was.

Assimilation · Forgotten Tyre's king-god who died and rose each spring, later mistaken for Heracles and then forgotten entirely.

Assimilation · Forgotten Carthage's chief goddess, her sign still scratched on stelae long after Rome plowed salt into her city.

Assimilation · Forgotten Goddess of love and war whose evening star outshone empires, until the cult of Mary inherited her light.

Forgotten The storm-rider who slew the sea and the death-god, then watched his own worshippers turn to scripture's mockery.

Assimilation · Forgotten Sidon's healer-god who castrated himself to flee a goddess and was reborn as her divine warmth.

Conquest · Forgotten The serpent-skirted mother of gods, killed by her own children, who conceived the sun-god from a ball of feathers.

Conquest · Forgotten The hummingbird of the south, born armed to slay his sister, who demanded hearts to keep the sun alive.

Conquest · Forgotten Lord of the lowest underworld, a blood-spattered skeleton who guarded the bones from which mankind was remade.

Conquest · Forgotten The feathered serpent who gave humanity maize and his own blood, mistaken at the end for the conqueror who killed him.

Conquest · Forgotten The smoking mirror who saw every heart, lost a foot to a sea-monster, and watched empires rise to fall at his whim.

Conquest · Forgotten The goggle-eyed rain-bringer whose paradise welcomed the drowned, fed by the tears of sacrificed children.

Conquest · Forgotten The flayed lord who wore the skin of the sacrificed as new spring growth wears the dead husk of seed.

Conquest · Forgotten The golden sun whose son ruled as Inca, his temple stripped of its plates to pay a captive emperor's ransom.

Conquest · Forgotten The creator who rose from Lake Titicaca to make the sun, moon, and men, then walked west across the sea and never returned.

Conquest · Forgotten The long-nosed rain-god who split the clouds with his lightning-axe, fed by the bodies cast into sacred sinkholes.

Conquest · Forgotten The aged creator who taught the Maya writing and the calendar, then was erased by the script of his conquerors.

Conquest · Forgotten The jaguar-clawed moon goddess of childbirth and weaving, whose island shrine drew pilgrims across the sea.

Conquest · Forgotten The Maya feathered serpent who slithers down the pyramid of Chichen Itza in light each equinox, his worshippers long gone.