off to worship ra in the temple...

why do the egyptians have cooler gods than the classic greek & roman gods? this is just conjecture on my part, as i really know very little about any of the gods that are part of any of those cultures (except for the little that can be found in stargate - the movie, not the cheesy television series), but they SEEM like they'd be more fun to kick it with on an ongoing basis. i mean, yeah, don't fuck with them, because they also seem a wee bit less whiney than the gods and goddesses of edith hamilton's mythology, which we thrust down the throats of every high school student on the planet. how's that for a phallic image? and then there's the theory (via julie kenner's books) that the gods & goddesses were simply "super-humans." so, buffy the vampire slayer could have been a goddess. i guess. but superman, definitely. wolverine and rogue, of course. if you could be a god or goddess, what would you want to be known for? what would your bumpersticker read? diana's would probably be "bring on the hunt" or something along those lines. what about yours?