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The Alphabet game is fairly simple. One at a time we place an item in the catergory starting with that letter.

You can only post one at a time and they must be done in Order. You also must state (in the case of deities) where they are from or what the herb,tool, path is about.

A: Athena-Greek Goddess of Wisdom, also seen as Lady of the Wild Things and sometimes associated with the moon

B: Bast(et) - Egyptian Goddess of Cats. Apparently originally was a goddess of the sun when depicted as a lion, but when later was depicted as a cat and made a goddess of the moon.

D: Dana - Mother of the gods of Ireland.

What fun games are! Charity, why do you refer to gods as "deities"?

F: Freyja- Norse Goddess, Vanir, associated with love, fertility, sex, wealth, and war

H: Hestia- Greek Goddess of hearth and home as well as baking and cooking, she is also one of the virgin goddesses.

J - Janus

Janus is the Roman God of doors and gates, beginnings and endings. Hence represented with a double-faced head, each looking in opposite directions. He was worshiped at the beginning of the harvest time, planting, marriage, birth, and other types of beginnings, especially the beginnings of important events in a person's life. Janus also represents the transition between primitive life and civilization, between the countryside and the city, peace and war, and the growing-up of young people.

L - LOKI!

Loki is one of the major deities in the Norse pantheon. He is a son of the Joutuns Farbauti ("cruel striker") and Laufey. He is connected with fire and magic, and can assume many different shapes (horse, falcon, fly to name a few). He is crafty and malicious, but is also heroic. The ambivalent god grows progressively more and more unpleasent, and is directly responsible for the death of Balder, the god of light.

Loki's mistress is the giantess Angrboda, and with her he is the father of three monsters (Fenrir, Hel, Jormungand). His wife is Sigyn, who stayed loyal to him, even when the gods punished him for the death of Balder. He was chained to three large boulders; one under his shoulders, one under his loins and one under his knees. A poisonous snake was placed above his head. The dripping venom that lands on him is caught by Sigyn in a bowl. But every now and then, when the bowl is filled to the brim, she has to leave him to empty it. Then the poison that falls on Loki's face makes him twist in pain, causing earthquakes.

On the day of Ragnarok, Loki's chains will break and he will lead the jotuns into battle against the gods. Loki is also called the Sly One, the Trickster, the Shape Changer, and the Sky Traveler.

O Odin-Norse king of the Gods, all father and much more. Associated with wisdom as well as many other things. He sacrificed himself to himself in order to learn the runes.