More Anansi, than Hermes?A Trickster god: manipulative, possibly known as "The Jester." Basically screws around with everyone...not inherently malicious or cruel, but sneaky as hell
That's not really shaking it up, remember Cupid/Eros? Also, Thor was a god of fertility. Yes, the big strong warrior who wielded a hammer with a handle too short to use unless he rubbed it, was a god of fertility. No, no veiled references there.A Love/Sex god: wanted to shake things up by making it a guy instead of a girl who is in charge of love.
May I recommend the Lady Luck interpretation from the Nightside series? She walked through a crowd of mortals, and every sort of thing happened to them. De-aging, fatal heart attacks, touch of gold, turned to stone, and everything in between.A Chance goddess: a goddess of random chance, still considering whether or not to use SirKaid's idea and divide this goddess into two.
I don't really think that mixing it up too much, Artemis was the Goddess of the Hunt, and was one of the most dangerous warriors on Olympus. She also had a habit of castrating men, so take that for what it's worth.A goddess of warriors: Mixing things up here again, rather than having a male god of war and female goddess of wisdom (like Ares and Athena) I'm having a female goddess of warriors (think sort of like an Amazon, or maybe Joan of Arc)
That kind of goes against most gods and goddesses, at least the vindictive part. I'm not sure how familiar you are with mythology, but there are relatively few deities that would be known as "nice" to mortals or their fellow gods and goddesses. And motherly isn't necessarily the best thing either, as goddesses tend to take things to an extreme. For instance, Demeter hid her daughter Persephone away from the rest of the world, and when Hades took her away to be his bride, Demeter nearly destroyed the world in her search for her daughter.A goddess of stone/builders: maybe a bit like Hera, of Greek fame, but not a vindictive wife so much as a nurturer and stable influence. Motherly
Two words: Centauri pantheon. But that's more of a tentacle pantheon...Nice gods that didn't do nasty shit to mortals....Umm coming up with Baldur and possibly Hemidall here.
As for a unique deity of love/sex I don't remember seeing many Hermaphrodites although I think the Egyptians had some. Mind you the Egyptians had some F**** up shit you know?
Just like Zeus.Seriously though near as I can remember the Egyptians thought their gods had two things to do: Change shape and have sex. Often at the same time.
Well he raped several people...Touché I think...but on the other hand Zeus as far as I know never anally raped anyone and then used the semen as proof of their superiority. So I still got it give it to the Egyptians for most messed up pantheon.
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