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sannion is looking for music relevant to Greco-Roman/Egyptian deities. Some of you can surely help him out. I personally want to see what people come up with. I feel like I should have answers, but I am so immersed in Nordic music lately that seems unlikely. Also, I'd be very curious to see if anyone comes up with anything Anubis-related that isn't a crappy goth tune (not that I object to crappy goth tunes, quite the contrary, but I'm familiar enough not to be curious).

Quasi-randomly, this prompts me to ask, what deity-type statues or things do you all have in your houses. It occurs to me that Patty and I have a Ganesha, an Anubis (these first two are both mine, and I realize, in a weird, inappropriate math way that Ganesh + Anubis sort of equals Hermes, who I've had an affinity for since I was really small), and (I think) at least two Buddhas (one is hers, and one is my Mizuko Jizo).

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When I was a child the only person I knew with religious symbols in the home was my paternal grandmother, and she had several buddhas. It is an eccentricity I wish I'd asked her about, as when we we were reunited in my adulthood these statues were gone and the rich red decor she'd once preferred had been replaced by drab olive green. The few times I've been able to visit her grave, I've left her small buddhas rather than flowers.

In my home, I have some statues of Bodhisattvas, several small ones of Kali, a dancing Ganeseh, an Indian temple dog, small framed images of Cernunnos, a statue of a forgotten cat goddess discovered in Florida, and a small totem pole.