Evrika (human goddess)

Evrika, GODDESS OF

How the Culture Perceives Her: The humans whom she is the goddess over due to them adopting her as their own patron goddess, see her as a Great Mother figure and have kept small statues of her in hospitals and in children's nursery's due to her being associated with life. They view her as a stern and more regal type of goddess with a flowing long dress. In her statues she is always kept with a straight face and not a lot of detail for her face except for having the regular things on it; nose, mouth that is closed, and sightless eyes. Runes cover her arms on all of her statues as well as her cheeks and her forehead. The runes are a human invention on what they think the goddess looks like. She is also personified with being the bird "Bird of Paradise" in some of her statues. She is depicted with dark skin and blue eyes with long dark hair. She is meant to be a goddess of inspiration and a muse to her followers as well as a Great Mother in taking care of them.


How She Actually appears:For the most part, the statues are not wrong. She does take the form of a woman with long white hair and a long blowy dress that drapes around her. Her skin is dark and as such does not appear any differently than she looks in her statues as she does not want to make them that confused. She wears no runes on her body, but she does wear silver in thin designs on her body over her chest and as well as a small circlet on her head. The difference to her statues and her is that she is usually smiling softly or looking somewhat awkward when dealing with someone who follows her and who called upon her. While she is personified as being stern and regal, the goddess, in truth, is not as stern as everyone thinks she is. She goes barefooted wherever she goes and does not change when visiting the human world.

POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES
- She is kind and caring to her followers, wanting to do everything she can for them.
- Is fair in her judgement and answers the prayers she receives.
- loves to inspire her followers and offer them all sorts of muse for whatever they take on.


NEGATIVE ATTRIBUTES
- When flustered, she can be a bit hard to get back to her normal self. She's awkward at times and sometimes doesn't act like the goddess she is supposed to be.
- Beware, she does have a temper and if you decide to anger her, she is not merciful for those who wish to test her limits.
- Though she tries not to hold grudges, she sometimes does hold them.
- Does not realize the power she holds within her hands and tends to forget just how powerful she is and sometimes gets over excited over things.


WEAKNESSES
- She cannot deal with anything having to deal with insanity; more like she does not like to.
- Other more bold gods and goddesses, sometimes she can be a bit of a pushover.
- Pain and suffering to her followers. If they hurt, so does she.

Evrika, often named other things in the past, has been a goddess who has been first the goddess of sun and life, and has evolved into a sort of muse for her followers as she does inspire them to to create what they will to continue on with life. She wasn't strong at first due to not having many followers, but due to her steady rise in power, she realized that the humans were steadily trying to take over. She did not mind watching over her followers and even gave them muse to make the cities and machines and inventions that they have built over the ages. While she is not a goddess known for technology, she does inspire the humans to keep moving forward in their endeavors. While she has been growing in strength, she tends to stay in the background when it comes to the other gods and goddesses and only work from behind the curtains so to speak.

Preferred Offerings:Evrika doesn't make her followers give her too fancy of offerings. Fruits and just poems and songs in her name do the trick most of the time. She is a goddess who adores new things and often takes a fancy to just sitting back in a concert and listening. Inventions are what she loves as well. Offerings of samples of inventions and sweet things as well as fruit generally do the trick along with poems and songs stated before.


Most Common Followers: Since she is the human goddess, she mainly has humans follow her. This would include the cyborgs as well, though sometimes they are more 'i'll see it to believe it' type of mindset when it comes to gods and goddesses. Her followers would be scientists, songwriters, poets, inventors, and other creative types of people. However, she does have those that aren't too creative that follow her as well due to her also having been aligned with life and the sun. Since she is viewed as a 'Mother Goddess' type figure, she has many religious buildings in her name and has one big cathedral set in her honor where those who wish to worship her go.

Possible gifts/blessings:
-One Human Ability
-One Item of her choosing that is blessed for protection up to 48 hours or can be exchanged for one human ability.
-Healing: Self-explanatory.
-Mercy: Able to save the person from one disaster or event. The covenant is usually held within an item of her choosing and the person chooses when to use her gift of 'mercy'.
-Gift of Intelligence: Pretty self-explanatory

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