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The minor goddess of Things That Stick in Drawers, Anoia is praised by rattling a drawer and crying "How can it close on the damned thing but not open with it? Who bought this? Do we ever use it?". She also eats corkscrews. The Maccalariat family of Ankh-Morpork have been Anoians for five generations. She is not, strangely, part of the number of gods praised at the Temple of Small Gods.
Blind Io is the current king of the gods. Io means "I see", and in nature he is seemingly an amalgam of Odin and Zeus, with elements of Thor — seen primarily in his use of a number of different hammers (seventy, actually, as detailed by Om). He is completely blind in the traditional sense but instead has countless eyes, which seem to have a mind of their own, orbiting his head. He was eventually compelled to get rid of his raven messengers because of their species' instinctual desire for devouring eyeballs. He lives in Dunmanifestin where he and the other gods play games with the lives of mortals.
Blind Io is a thunder god. Actually, Io is the only thunder god on the Disc. He goes by many names and appearances to make sure he keeps the optimal amount of followers. This is not really unfair because all the other gods use the same trick.
He also has an apparent monopoly on the natural phenomenon of thunder, lightning is allowed for common use by all deities but thunder is strictly regulated.
One of the Discworld's most implacable, and difficult to understand gods. He looks like a pleasant, middle-aged man, but his eyes are starry voids. It is possible (although difficult) to bargain with him but proverbially impossible to cheat him, although it has been done at least once. He is known to play games against The Lady using mortals as pawns, and always plays to win. The Temple of Fate is situated in the Gods' Quarter, Ankh-Morpork. It's a small, heavy, leaden temple, where hollow-eyed and gaunt worshippers meet on dark nights for predestined and fairly pointless rites. Said to come from a world other than the Disc.
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The God of Hunted Animals. Herne appears as a small figure with floppy rabbit ears, small horns and a good turn of speed. He has the unfortunate job of being the constantly terrified and apprehensive god of all small furry creatures whose destiny it is to end their lives as a brief, crunchy squeak. He is a parody of Herne the Hunter.
The Discworld's version of Father Christmas or Santa Claus. He wears a red, fur-lined cloak, and rides a sleigh pulled by four wild boars, Gouger, Rooter, Tusker and Snouter. In earlier times he gave households pork products, and naughty children a bag of bloody bones. Earlier than that, he was a winter god of the death-and-renewal kind. The modern version is a jolly toymaker, with vestiges of the earlier myths (such as his Castle of Bones) still clinging to him.
The Goddess Who Must Not Be Named. She is constantly opposed to Fate, and she is just as difficult to understand, although where he is implacable — she is capricious. Since everyone believes in her, she does not need to be worshipped, and would regard such a thing as taking her for granted. Her favour instantly disappears if she believes someone is relying on her, or calls her by name. The only temple ever built in her honor, by some members of the Guild of Gamblers, was struck down by a series of unfortunate events.
When playing games with mortals, The Lady never sacrifices a pawn, and doesn't play to win, but rather plays not to lose. Rincewind, who refuses to believe his continued survival against the odds is anything other than coincidence, is one of her favorites.
Her appearance is hard to determine. After witnessing her in person, Rincewind and Twoflower were not able to agree upon what she had looked like, other than that she "appeared to be beautiful" and had green eyes. Her eyes are her defining feature: no Discworld God can change the nature of their own eyes, and hers are pure green, without iris or pupil.
Nuggan is the locally worshipped monotheistic and omnipotent God of Borogravia, but elsewhere he is known as the God of Paperclips, Correct Things in the Right Place in Small Desk Stationery Sets, and Unnecessary Paperwork. He usually sports a fussy little moustache.
His holy writ is the only known Living Testament, into which more material is, if not magically, then religiously added on a regular basis. All believers regularly add pages to the clip-binder Appendices, which then eventually fill with more commandments, usually Abominations unto Nuggan. In recent times, his commandments have become rather nonsensical — among his ever-growing list of Abominations were cats, the colour blue, Dwarfs, oysters, mushrooms, chocolate, garlic, babies, cheese, the smell of beets, and ears. He is also very opposed to the clacks system, as it intereferes with the prayers of the faithful.
Offler is a crocodile god originating from Klatch and is worshipped in most hot lands with great rivers, and even other parts of the Discworld where the people have never even seen any crocodiles. He might be inspired by the Ancient Egyptian crocodile god Sobek. Offler speaks with a lisp because of his crocodile mouth which is not ideal for human language.
His followers are called Offlians, and the first month of the Agricultural year, Offle, is also named after him.
The traditional sacrifice to Offler when praying is composed mainly of sausages, (this is possibly a reference to a crocodile and a string of sausages in a traditional Punch and Judy show). The sausages are fried, allowing the "true sausagidity" to ascend to Offler by means of smell, while the clergy eat the "earthly shell" of the sausages, which the clergy claim taste like ash, as Offler has eaten their essence. Atheists and non-offlerians are suspicious of this claim.
Om is an omnipotent, omnipresent (only within the boundaries of the Omnian church) god in the country of Omnia. His temple resides in Kom, presumably the capital, and his followers are known as Omnians.
Unlike the major Discworld gods, who exist as a pantheon, Om is a monotheistic deity whose followers insist that he is the one and only true God. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Omnians also insist that the world is round. Omnianism is the most oft-mentioned religion on the Discworld, and its members are known for their fervent evangelism.
Omnianism used to be an intolerant religion, not because Om was an intolerant god, but because he was largely an indifferent one. After spending some time trapped in the shape of a tortoise his perspective was changed, and he allowed Brutha to turn Omnianism into one of the Discworld's more tolerant religions, although they still insist Om is the only real god.
Visit, a constable in the Ahnk- Morpork city watch, has the full name of 'Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets'; many modern Omnians are given similar names, such as 'Smite-The-Unbeliever-With-Cunning-Arguments'. This in contrast to older Omnians, who were given bloodier names. The names parody Puritan names like "O Be Joyful", "Fear-the-Lord" and "Job-Raked-Out-of-the-Ashes". (The ancestor of Samuel Vimes, Suffer-Not-Injustice, is also named in the Puritan manner, based as he is on the very Puritanical Oliver Cromwell).
The Omnian Quisition (consisting of the Inquisition and the Exquisition) used the Torquus Simiae Maleficarum ("The Monkey Wrench of Witches"; a reference to the real world Malleus Maleficarum or "Hammer of the Witches") to identify witches. The Book of Om says that witches shall not be allowed to live, although this may be a typo since it also says that they may be caught in traps of treacle. This has led some to believe the word may in fact be cockroaches.
The God of Cut Timber who prohibited the practice of panupanitoplasty among his followers, even though in actuality very few of his followers knew what panupanitoplasty was (he didn't have a clue, either, but did it because it worried his worshippers).
Mostly the same as in our world, only the Discworld version has subcontracted the actual collection of teeth to ordinary young women.