Most powerful mythological figure?

I nominate the Hindu God.

-Racob has spoken

@racob7: there are like a thousand Hindu gods.

Brahman.

Maybe the Christian God? Or Chaos from Greek mythology?

I like my coffee how I like myself, Dark, bitter, and too hot for you.

"God."

"God isn't a myth."

"How do you know?"

And thus, the arguement begins!

@joshmightbe: The Hindu God has multiple personality disorder, each deity is a physical manifestation of an aspect of God. They appear to be separate beings, but they are really one who with many names and faces. Confusing, huh?

I nominate Apollo.

The godly ones?

Son Goku, perhaps?

A Monotheistic god is obviously more powerful than polytheistic gods and goddesses.

That multi-armed blue chick from the Hindu religion. I can't remember her name (tip of my tongue) and I think she's freaking amazing and frightening. She's like the all mother and represents sex and birth and all that scary feminine stuff.

Batman

Shiva?

QFT

Sun Wukong, Yao Wei, Hanuman, GhatotKacha

@jaken7: (screams in frustration because she's an idiot) YES! Thank you!

@ms-lol
This isn't Shiva, this is Kali.

Goddess of Destruction.

Shiva is actually the girl who's under her feet...

We all have our brain farts from time to time.

Is that like the Chinese variation of Yahweh, the old Hebrew name for the Judeo-Christian God? Lol

@xaos: But I thought Shiva was the destroyer of the world?

@jaken7: I thought that is the celestial archer that took down nine suns

I'll take your word for it. Searching "Yao Wei" in Google only yields results of Chinese people's Facebook pages, so I don't actually know. Lol

@jaken7: @vivide:

One mistake, Shiva is a guy...and a benevolent divinity.

Kali is frightening because she is the cosmic principle of necessarily destruction, but she's "goodish", like kinda the punisher of the hindian gods because she's seems to aimed mainly bad people. :-/

She's the godess that the original sect of the "thugs" were devoted to. (You know... the indiana jones crazies.)

@xaos: don't forget that she loves to dance.

@vivide:

Didn't knew about that. Thanks !

You never stop learning...

Depends, Godheads are usually strong

I'd even say that Brahma is superior to Yahweh

Orphic Zeus is also strong

@xaos: They look so similar though. >_<

@jaken7:

Kali?

Olorun stomps.

Tali?

@racob7: @jaken7:

There is no fixed "number of deities" in Hinduism any more than a consistent definition of "deity". There is, however, a popular perception stating that there are 330 million (or "33 crore") deities in Hinduism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_deities#Number_of_deities

Eledumare, olorun, oluwa, chukwu these guys are them powerful

The Chinese term for the Christian God is Tianzhu and Yesu jidu is the term for Jesus Christ.

I speak Chinese haha.

Feats?

Kewl!

Going by your name, I'm assuming you speak Mandarin, and not Cantonese, no?

@jaken7: Yup.

@mandarinestro: olorun literally means owner of heaven in yoruba, oluwa is god in yoruba, eledumare is also god in yoruba eledumare is his name those other two are titles, chukwu is god in igbo, he created lesser gods like anyawu, amadioha, ala and others. Am a yoruba boy and i know the history/myths of my people and neighbors. Eledumare created earth, he poured sand on the waters and sent "adiye elese meerin" literally meaning a cock with four legs, to spread/scatter the sands over the waters and thus the continents were created, eledumare also created people like oranmiyan, @iamoptimusprime: @akindoodle: do you have anything to had to these feats or deities?

That's a misrepresentation though. She was the Goddess of War and necessary destruction. It was compared with mother's anger when someone harms her children - when something evil torments people and they cry out, she goes around wrecking stuff.. The picture in question is after destroying an asura, she started doing a war dance, which was about to destroy creation - so Shiva lied down below her dancing feet till she calmed down.

Of course, with a purpose like that, it's almost sure to have crazy followers (kind of like how Swastik, a very sacred symbol, was twisted by the nazis and it's still infamous in the western countries) But people who worship her aren't just soldiers. Some of the politicians visit the temple before elections, or some students before an exam. Basically, it's about being at your best for something important.

@xaos said:

@ms-lol

This isn't Shiva, this is Kali.

Goddess of Destruction.

Shiva is actually the girl who's under her feet...

I didn't get this notification, but yes, thank you for the correction. I really appreciate it.

This is brilliant. Your explanation for the above image seriously just made my day, as did you sharing your knowledge with me. Thank you so, so much!

The Dreamer

@ms-lola: You're welcome :)

I'd say Hecate she was honoured by Zeus himself above all other of the older titans, that in itself is testament to the power you have

"Hecate whom Zeus the son of Cronos honored above all. He gave her splendid gifts, to have a share of the earth and the unfruitful sea. She received honor also in starry heaven, and is honored exceedingly by the deathless gods. For to this day, whenever any one of men on earth offers rich sacrifices and prays for favor according to custom, he calls upon Hecate. Great honor comes full easily to him whose prayers the goddess receives favorably, and she bestows wealth upon him; for the power surely is with her. For as many as were born of Earth and Ocean amongst all these she has her due portion. The son of Cronos did her no wrong nor took anything away of all that was her portion among the former Titan gods: but she holds, as the division was at the first from the beginning, privilege both in earth, and in heaven, and in sea" - From the Theogony by Hesiod

@scouterv: Goku is neither mythical nor a god. Just saiyan.

Zeus.

But for what I believe in, Jehovah.

Chaos from greek and egyptian myth

Yahweh/Allah/God (judeo christian muslim supreme god)

Brahman

Nyx (even zeus didn't mess with her)

gaea

flying spaghetti monster.

Essentially the highest member of varying pantheons.

@impurestcheese: Probably just wanted in her pants. Zeus, you old horn dog you.

Batman !

@ostyo: Hecate was and remained a virgin goddess

@impurestcheese: Ha, not with Zeus the God of Rape lurking around.

@ms-lola: @racob7: The God from The Bible (Judea-Christian) is clearly the most powerful.