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Nithian Pantheon

by Giampaolo Agosta

Here is an HW Nithian pantheon, designed to avoid the use of those Egyptian Gods already present in Legends & Lore as alternate names of Mystaran Immortals.

Name	Nithian Name	Portfolio
Rathanos	Rathanes	God of Fire
Osiris	Osiris	God of Life and Death
Noumena	Khufu	God of Thought
Pflarr	Pflarr	Servant of Rathanos, Patron of the Hutaakans
Maat	Maat	Goddess of Justice
Thanatos	Thaton	God of Death
Minroth	Minroth	Patron of Explorers
Ka	Khnef or Ka	Creator of the world
Tarastia	Thei	Goddess of Justice
Faunus	Mendes	Ram God
Crakkak	Sebek	Crocodile God
Djaea	Mut	Mother goddess
Valerias	Hathor	Goddess of love, mother of the sun
Ixion	Her-ur	God of the Sun, Horus the Great
Protius	Hapi	God of the Nithia River

The Nithian mythology is largely incoherent. Rathanes is considered the father of the gods, but then Khufu and Khnef are often depicted as equally old.
Osiris, Horus the Great and Thaton are Rathanes' sons, and Hathor, Thei the Lifetaker and Maat the Lifegiver are his daughters.
Three divine couples are formed (Horus-Hathor, Osiris-Maat and Thaton-Thei), but Thaton betrays and kills Osiris, who is then raised by Maat.
Thei, disgusted by Thaton behaviour, chases him off the Heaven, to the Underworld, where he becomes the lord of the damned.
Osiris, initially only the God of Life, takes charge of the spirits of the righteous dead, and becomes Lord of the Dead.
Rathanes then decides to spawn another son to replace Thaton, but is dissuaded by Khufu, who suggests him to create a new Immortal, Pflarr, a loyal construct.
Khnef, Khufu, and Rathanes form a triad of elder gods, believed to be the creators of the human being --body, mind and spirit respectively.
There are many minor gods, either native (Minroth, Mendes, Hapi) or imported from the nearby populations (Mut, Sebek).