Greetings once again everyone, as I said I would, I bring a second topic this week, and it is of course THE SEVEN GODS, which is a very important piece of informaiton wihtin my Epoch of the Witches series, and you can consider it a companion piece to the Venus Figurines, this ones holds lots of valuable infomation I am sure you will appreciate.

Without further to add, ENJOY!

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Introduction: The Need to Believe

Humanity has a deep rooted need to believe in something as a motivation for their lives, be this an ideal, a dream or a supernatural being, it is not known exactly at which point in our evolution this biological need arose, but once it did it became central to our being, even non-religious believers believe in themselves or rather the ideals that “themselves” represents, but we today are going to talk about Gods.

The pantheons of humanity are vast, but they all share a common origin, and that is seven beings that descended from the heavens or rather came from the stars, to combat the titanic Neuroi of the past, and through their intervention they changed the course of humanity forever, on this entry we’re going to learn about the so called “Seven Gods”, the origin of all pantheons in humanity, and the benefactors of all Witches powers, so let’s dive and let’s understand these Gods.

 

Who and What are The Seven Gods?

The simple answer is that we are not exactly sure where did the Seven Gods came from, they are not exactly living beings and are mere manifestations of the power of the Cosmic Flow taking shape withing reality, that is the closest explanation we can find, some believe they come from the future being the united consciousness of humanity returning to the pass to set events in motion, others believe they are remnants of an old version of the universe, others believe they are advanced machines created by an old civilization who died leaving the universe barren save for Earth, maybe it’s none of them, maybe it’s all of them, nobody is truly sure….but what we do know is that they came to earth drawn by the rise of the Neuroi.

These seven Gods were as follow:

The Father: The leader and most powerful of them all, with control and command over matter.

The Mother: The companion of the Father, Merciful and fierce, with control over nature.

The Warrior: The bravest and deadliest combatant, unbeatable and an expert in warfare.

The Wise: The paragon of curiosity and knowledge, he knows it all and yet knows there is more.

The Lover: The most beautiful creature in the universe, inspiring all kinds of feelings, mostly love.

The Oceanic: The master of connections, all goes through him and he guides it all.

The Dead: The end of all cycles, leaving it all barren for a new beginning.

Regardless of the divisions we will see later, The Seven Gods hold a DEEP ANTAGONISM towards Neuroi, and upon detecting their rise on Earth, they traveled to fight them off.

 

The Titan Wars

Around 50.000 BC, the Neuroi emerged from the core of the Earth to terrorize the nascent mankind, At the time Homo Heidelbergensis, almost driving them into extinction across the land they expanded (Mostly their native Africa, Europa and Asia), creating a massive cataclysm on Earth, and that is when The Seven Gods arrived and for almost 5000 years, they battled the Neuroi.

Unfortunately due to this taking place very early when humans weren’t even fully humans yet we have very little information on what transpired, only its duration thanks to the analysis of the environment, the very primitive representations left by ancient humans in the form of cave paintings and sculptures, through that we can deduce the Gods fought in colossal battles against the gigantic Neuroi, possibly towering in kilometers, while the Gods took various shapes to fight them, these battles shook the foundation of Earth and led to the shape of continents we see today.

Eventually the Gods were victorious and drove the Neuroi back underground and destroyed all the titanic Neuroi, leaving only 7 who hid...these would end up becoming the Gigas Neuroi in the future, the Neuroi would not rise up again until the era of the civilization of Mesopotamia where Urash would appear.

And once the deed was done the question was...what to do next? And here is when history was made.

 

The Mother Makes her choice.

Most of the information about the following events are taken from very old myths and legends, such as the tablets that tell the story of Urash, so we will gather all that information and construct a coherent raw description of the events that unfolded.

After the Neuroi were beaten, the gods gathered to decide what would be the fate of mankind and of Earth, there were two paths championed by The Father and The Mother.

The Father proposed a dogmatic method, watching over humanity from afar and leaving them with a series of codes, principles, ideologies and rules in order to keep them self-regulating themselves so they could not destroy themselves, but in reality The Father had noticed the massive potential of humanity, and fearing they would grow powerful enough to even surpass them, disguised this as a plant to control them for their own benefit.

But The Mother saw through her companion’s intention and proposed a different plan.

The Mother proposed the opposite, staying on Earth to watch over them, guide them not with limitations but with wisdom and words, allowing them to make mistakes, learn from them and grow, and keep growing until they left Earth and expanded their seed on the universe filling it with life, and if they surpassed the Gods? So be it…. for what is a greater joy to a mother than seeing her children grow prosperous and strong? She believed this and was set on this plan.

Of course, The Father opposed, but The Mother was adamant and the discussion lasted for a long time, him presenting all kinds of arguments to make her leave and agree with him, she refusing and vouching for the beings she had come to consider her children, such was her devotion that she won the admiration of the other five gods. The Father gave her an ultimatum, if she decided to stay, the other Gods would abandon her and she would be on her own from now on...and she did what any loving mother would...she chose her children.

And so The Father left The Mother on Earth, he would always be sad and resent her for choosing humanity over him and over the other Gods, the other Gods however were impressed by The Mother and without The Father Knowing, left with her their blessings so she could use those gifts and legate them to mankind when the time came, with these powers when the Neuroi returned the Mother chose a girl to become her champion, the savior of mankind who embodied the best qualities they had, resilience, selfless love, hard work and un indomitable will…this girl was of course Urash, the First Witch.

And eventually after The Father was killed, The Warrior and The Lover returned to settle near Earth, The Warrior because he knew humanity would have to fight endless wars for their survival and he wanted to see it from Mars, while The Lover knew no one would love more than mankind across the universe so she wanted to see it from Venus.

As we mentioned, The Father according to the tablets of Urash, did try to return and sabotage The Mother’s plan, to supplant it with his own and force her to return with him and seize control of mankind, but Urash confronted and destroyed him in a combat on the atmosphere, however his essence was later absorbed by The Mother who later released it on mankind, through a holy man in Judea known as “The Prophet” who through a sacrifice, handed it for all mankind to use.

The Wise, The Oceanic and The Dead remained traveling across the cosmos, hoping to see the day where humanity reached them, hoping to meet up with The Mother, The Warrior and The Lover once again.

 

The Legacies of The Gods and their powers on Witches.

The memory of The Seven Gods lingered on mankind and gave birth to the various pantheons they created, although with time their memory got distorted and it evolved, diversified and even melded into various concepts.

The Father giving birth to Gods like Zeus, Odin, Ra, Ahura Mazda, The Mother giving birth to Gods like Amaterasu, Coatlicue, Hera, Tiamat, Isis and many more, The Warrior giving birth to Gods like Thor, Ares, Perun, Shiva, Huītzilōpōchtli and many more, The Lover giving birth to goddesses like Aphrodite, Freyja, Ishtar, Parvati and so on...you can trace every single God back to the Seven Gods in some capacity, and through this connection they provide their powers to Witches.

The powers of Witches are usually set depending on the particular God they worship and how this God relates to the seven, although there are SOME exceptions, this is generally the rule, as such we will explain how is this correlation applied:

 

Those who worship figures hailing from The Father: Will manifests powers to create and alter elements of reality, such as Witches who can make magical constructs, or manipulate gravity or alter structures.

Those who worship figures hailing from The Mother: Will manifests powers over nature, abilities to control the elements of nature and even aspects of the human body, as such Witches with healing magic fall under this category, save for regeneration which falls under the Warrior.

Those who worship figures hailing from The Warrior: Will manifests powers that enhance combat capabilities, increased speed, strength, physical attributes, provide resistance, endurance and preservation etc, it is actually the most common set of powers found on Witches.

Those who worship figures hailing from The Lover: Will manifests powers that inspire or enhance others around them, through motivation or combat capabilities, giving them undying loyalty, will and faith to keep going, they also gain enhanced singing and dancing attributes.

Those who worship figures hailing from The Wise: Will manifests powers to understand the world around them, intelligence gathering, analyzing, sensing, remembering, it is a pretty valuable and straightforward set of skills.

Those who worship figures hailing from The Oceanic: Will manifests powers related to communication and combat on water, but mostly communication and relaying information across great distances, as such he is the patron of Night Witches.

Those who worship figures hailing from The Dead: By far the rarest and most powerful set of skills, even if they worship figures like Hades, Hel or Mictlāntēcutli...it is not a guarantee they will get powers of The Dead, these powers are often about giving something in exchange for obtaining something in return, such as Vampire Witches give their humanity to obtain a massive amount of power, but condemn themselves to drink blood and suffer a painful transformation, but by far the most powerful of the powers of The Dead is the “Sacrifice Power”, so rare it has only been used by two Witches in history, Jean d’Arc and Guadalupe Cuauhtlatoatzin...gaining god like powers but then having to ascend to the Cosmic Flow after the battle is won.

 

Conclusion

The Seven Gods will forever remain one of the greatest mysteries of our universe, it is very likely we may never truly understand them completely but, the legacy they left within mankind and the influence they still have through our religions and The Witches, have become key to the human experience and as often said, we may not truly believe, but even those who don’t, need to know what not to believe to know they don’t believe, the gods came to Earth and while only one remained, they all came to stay.