Godcasting and the Long, Long Walk

[featherynscale]

Last night, triadruid were taking our evening constitutional and debating the question I raised yesterday afternoon, namely 'Who would you cast to play your gods?'. We're walking types, so we were able to go through a bunch of the Irish set, some of the Norse, and a handful of Greeks. Big fun, yo.

Apparently, though, Someone was listening to the conversation and either was annoyed or amused and wanted us to continue. We got lost on the walk and were stuck in a weird street loop for a while. So the mile walk turned into more like two miles, but hey. The weather was nice.


Irish:
The Dagda - John Rhys-Davies
Diancecht - Christopher Walken
Miach - Cillian Murphy
Airmid - Neve Campbell
Nuada Silverhand - Harrison Ford, possibly
Bres - David Bowie (tell me that would not rock)
Maeve - Faye Dunaway
Goibnu - Bruce Willis
Mannanan mac Lir - Eric Stoltz (He was actually the first one we came up with, but the idea of Eric Stoltz playing Mannanan was so compelling that we kept returning to it, and it was derailing the conversation, so he's at the end of the list.)

Norse:
Sif - Kate Winslet
Loki - Seth Green (there's a man with a face full of trouble)
Heimdall - Antonio Banderas (as long as he never has to talk)

Greek:
Apollo - Heath Ledger
Hades - Alan Rickman
Hestia - Helen Hunt
Hermes - Alan Cumming (see above re: face full of trouble, except also, you know, friendly)
Athena - Jennifer Connelly
Artemis - Grace Jones (back in the Bond girl days -- I have no idea what she's doing now)
Prometheus - Seal

Regrettably, I can't remember any of the rest any more... Also, we discovered that there are apparently no actresses currently working who have the proper figure to be Norse or Irish goddesses. Also also, somebody needs a religion in which the psychopomp deity could be played by Harvey Keitel. He's obviously a psychopomp, but we couldn't find a good mythic system to put him in. Suggestions gladly accepted.

Comments

Re: your mileage may vary

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Baile Binnbérlach, I think is who you mean. It means Baile of the Clear Speech, which to the Irish is the blarney thing, more or less. He's an heir to the throne of Ulster, and he appears briefly in a Romeo and Juliet-type story with his intended, Ailinn. He's not exactly deity, but is part of an 11th Century story in the Historical Cycle.

Been tracking this one down for a long time now. She shoots, she scores!

I think, anyway.