I personally quite like the shrine missions, they add flavour, have nice rewards, and leave something lasting in that city in terms of the modifiers it gives at the end (or even a autonomous religious state!). However, the lists for some religions are rather small, so I propose they be expanded. I've also attached a bunch of new deities in the Near East and Anatolia.
If anyone knows any other sites, please let me know so I can add them and help expand this list.
Some possible new deities:
Disclaimer: For those deities with a lot of different forms, I'm picking out the interesting and important ones. Anatolia is super-diverse, to the point where 1 region probably had more different versions of just Zeus and the Mother Goddess then the entirety of Imperator Rome has deities, just from the ones we can attest. It likely had many more.
Some deities are already present in game, but should be changed to better fit the way/area/people they were worshipped/who worshipped them, thus I added them here. See also this post for the cultures in brackets, current not in game. They are various missing Anatolians.
Armenian:
Please see this post.
Anatolian:
'Deified people':
Hellenic:
Egyptian:
Zoroastrian:
Zalmoxian:
*Pontic culture wasnt really a thing, they were Cappadocians, Pontic should be removed. If it stays, deities should be shared.
If anyone knows any other sites, please let me know so I can add them and help expand this list.
Sadly, I do not know any more then these two.
Code:
caucasian_religion = {
PREV = {
OR = {
province_id = 1676 #Mtshkheta, main religious center for Iberians
province_id = 1637 #Temple of the Albanian moon goddess
}
}
}Note I left out the thing at Garni, because except for the usual hellenophiles most scholars do not regard that as a temple.
Code:
armenian_religion = {
PREV = {
OR = {
province_id = 1560 #Andewatsik, center for Astghik
province_id = 994 #Ashtishat, temple-state
province_id = 1654 #The Ewt Porakean Bagink
province_id = 1767 #Erez, center for Anahit
province_id = 1649 #Kaspian Bagawan
province_id = 1762 #Bagayarich, 'gods town' for Mihr
province_id = 839 #Mt Nemrud, the hierothesions to syncretic Helleno-Armenian deities
province_id = 1579 #Bagaran, one of the royal religious centres
province_id = 1571 #Artaxata, Erazamoyn, library-temple of Tir
province_id = 841 #Angegh, temple of Tork'
province_id = 1768 #Til, center for Nane
province_id = 7845 #Tordan and Ani-Kamakh, religious centers for Barshamin and Aramazd
province_id = 1567 #Bagawan, one of the royal religious centres
province_id = 1570 #Armawir, one of the royal religious centres
#
}
}
}I'm sure there's more in central Anatolia, if anyone happens to know about them.
Code:
anatolian_religion = {
PREV = {
OR = {
province_id = 1792 #Temple-state of Men Pharnakou
province_id = 172 #Komana, main centre of Ma
province_id = 200 #Kimiata, nearby sacred mountain religious centre at Olygassys
province_id = 1790 #The other Komana, also a centre of Ma
province_id = 1894 #Olbe, a temple-state
province_id = 1991 #Oenoanda, a arge and important religious centre
province_id = 292 #Sardis, site of Cybele
province_id = 1980 #Lagina, important Carian cultic site and temple state
province_id = 292 #Ephesus was an important site of Anatolian mother-goddess worship as well
province_id = 1875 #Kastabala, an Anatolian temple-state
province_id = 1879 #Aigai, an Anatolian temple state
province_id - 1818 #Venasa, second most important temple-state in Cappadocia, its high priest the third most important person
province_id = 188 #temple-state to mother goddess Meter Dindymene
province_id = 319 #temple state to Meter Steunos, another version of the mother goddess
province_id = 1928 #temple-state of Men
}
}
}Four more sites for the roman_religion in the east
province_id = 1720 #Phasis, temple of Apollo Hegemon and Artemis
province_id = 1706 #Sourion, temple to the White Goddess Leukothea
province_id = 811 #Dolikhe, important Zeus temple and under the Romans the site for Jupiter Dolikhenos
province_id = 839 #Mt Nemrud, the hierothesions to syncretic Helleno-Armenian deities
province_id = 1995 #The Letoön at Xanthus, worship of Leto and her children
province_id = 1973 #Oracular temple of Apollo at Didyma
province_id = 1977 #Sactuary of Carian Zeus, Zeus Labraundus, a curious mix of local and Hellenic elements
province_id = 1720 #Phasis, temple of Apollo Hegemon and Artemis
province_id = 1706 #Sourion, temple to the White Goddess Leukothea
province_id = 811 #Dolikhe, important Zeus temple and under the Romans the site for Jupiter Dolikhenos
province_id = 839 #Mt Nemrud, the hierothesions to syncretic Helleno-Armenian deities
province_id = 1995 #The Letoön at Xanthus, worship of Leto and her children
province_id = 1973 #Oracular temple of Apollo at Didyma
province_id = 1977 #Sactuary of Carian Zeus, Zeus Labraundus, a curious mix of local and Hellenic elements
province_id = 1834 #Zela, a temple-state in Pontus dedicated to Persian deities
province_id = 1515 #Ganzak, fire temple
province_id = 1598 #the holy mountain at Bagastana
province_id = 6691 #The Takht-i-Sanqin, or Oxus River temple, an important temple complex devoted to the Vakhshu the god of the Oxus and to Fire.
province_id = 1515 #Ganzak, fire temple
province_id = 1598 #the holy mountain at Bagastana
province_id = 6691 #The Takht-i-Sanqin, or Oxus River temple, an important temple complex devoted to the Vakhshu the god of the Oxus and to Fire.
province_id = 854 #the Oasis of Sumatar, holy site to Sin
province_id = 819 #Important temple of Sin
province_id = 819 #Important temple of Sin
Some possible new deities:
Disclaimer: For those deities with a lot of different forms, I'm picking out the interesting and important ones. Anatolia is super-diverse, to the point where 1 region probably had more different versions of just Zeus and the Mother Goddess then the entirety of Imperator Rome has deities, just from the ones we can attest. It likely had many more.
Some deities are already present in game, but should be changed to better fit the way/area/people they were worshipped/who worshipped them, thus I added them here. See also this post for the cultures in brackets, current not in game. They are various missing Anatolians.
Armenian:
Please see this post.
Anatolian:
- Artimu, Lydian mother goddess, sounds like Artemis but isnt Artemis. Holy site at 292 Sardis (Sardis was a major cultic centre for many mother goddesses, which existed alongside each other), Very Rare.
- Asbamaios, Cappadocian/Pontic*? deity, version of the heroic rider god native to Cappadocia, with elements of the storm god woven in, the Greeks associated him with Zeus, associated with oaths, horses, springs, War/Culture/Fertility deity, Very Rare.
- Baaltar, Cilician deity, Baal of Tarsos, patron god of the city and all-round protector city, holy site at 1883 Tarsos, War deity, Fort/Defensive bonuses, Very Rare.
- Bas, Phrygian deity, similar to other Anatolian/Mesopotamian/Semitic storm gods. Associated with food, harvests, storms, rain - Fertility/Economic deity, Very Rare.
- Edbebe, Anatolian (Pisidian) grave goddess, associated with magic, the afterlife, death, and has mother goddess elements as well. Happyness, religious tech bonuses? Culture deity, Very Rare.
- Eni Mahanahi, Lycian mother goddess, holy site at 1995 Xanthos. Fertility deity, Very Rare.
- Gdan, Anatolian (Pisidian deity), a Pisidian version of the Anatolian mother goddess, worshipped throughout Pisidia and a lot of natives were named after her. No specific holy site, Culture/Fertility deity. Very Rare,
- Hekate Lagitena, Carian deity, the Hekate of Caria, the Greek name for a far older deity who was worshipped at the temple-state at Lagina where the Carian gods were worshipped, some kind of military bonus and something else, holy site at 1890 Lagina, Culture/War deity, Very Rare.
- Hosios and Dikaios, Phrygian and Lydian deities of justice, worshipped throughout Lydia and Phrygia alongside Helios and Apollo. Culture/Economic deities? Always come as a pair. Rare.
- Kakasbos, Lycian deity, Lycian version of the heroic rider god, a more rough and agressive version of it, currently as a general Anatolian deity, but Kakasbos' worship only spread with the Lycian migration into the hinterland in the 2nd half of the game, and then spread to other proples there. Attrition effect? War deity, Rare.
- Kubaba, the Cilician version of the mother deity, which saw at least some spread in Commagene as well, War deity, defensive bonus (because of an inscription found there that has strong terretorial and protective overtones). Holy site at 1675 Kastabala, Very Rare.
- Leto, Lycian mother goddes, worshipped at the Letoon which carries her name, near 1995 Xanthus. War deity? Seems to have had some protective aspects of motherhood associated with her, Rare.
- Ma, general Anatolian deity, war goddess, aggressive visage, associated with victory, discipline and morale bonuses, War deity, Rare.
- Malija, a Lycian goddess of wisdom, holy site at 1993 Tlos, Culture or Economy deity, Very Rare.
- Maseis, Anatolian (Milyadian, Cabalian) heroic rider god, worshipped in the mountains behind Lycia, had some elements of the moon god Ma as well in, holy site at 1990 Oenoanda,War/Fertility deity, Rare.
- Matar (Kubeliya), Phrygian mother goddes, sometimes also called Matar Kubeliya, worshipped all over Phrygia, but had an important site at 184, at Midas City, an important religious centre even after its destruction, which continued in importance till at least the 3rd century BCE, and possible afterwards as well. Fertility/Economic deity? Rare.
- Mazdaios, Cilician version of Ahuramazda, honestly not sure where to put this one, could be Hellenic as well, no clear holy site. Fertility/Culture deity (depicted with both fertility and wisdom related elements). Very Rare.
- Meis, Phrygian version of Men/Mah, wisdom, knowledge, water, protective deity, no clear main holy site, but heavily attested at 319 Aizanoi. Culture/Economy diety?, Rare.
- Meis Axiottenos, Lydian version of Men/Mah, often worshipped alongside his mother (aaawww), holy site around 301. Protective deity, also associated with water. Culture/Economy? Could fit most categories really. This version of Meis was very popular later on with Hellenics and Latins as well. Rare.
- Men Askaios, (Pisidian deity) the Men of Pisidian Antioch 1928, one of the more important versions of Men in Anatolia. !Note that currently 1928 is localised as Men Askaenos, this is wrong, it should be Antiokheia tis Pisidias and Antochia Caesaraea in Greek and Latin respectively.! Rare.
- Men Pharnakou, Cappadocian/Pontic*? deity, the Men of Pharnakes worshipped at the temple-state near 1792 Kabeira, a god associated with rulership, Economic Deity (so that Pontus can have Men Pharnakou, Ma, Mithra, and Anahita as its 4 deities), Very Rare.
- Meter Dindymene, Phrygian deity, the mother goddess deity of the Dindymos mountain in Anatolia (is already in game as 'Dindymene' but Dindymene is an epithet specifically referring to this mountain, not the name of a diety!), Rare.
- Meter Steunene, general Anatolian, another mother goddess worshipped at the Steunos cave, believed by the Hellenes to have housed Zeus as a bebe, however, was an existing Phrygian holy site, Rare.
- Omanos, Cappadocian/Pontic*? deity, holy site at 1834 Zela where it was worshipped by the large Persian community and local Cappadocians. Related to oath taking, diligence, good deeds, based on Vohu Manah, Economy deity with a tax bonus and unrest reduction modifier perhaps? Very Rare.
- Pylon, Cappadocian/Pontic*? deity, god of protection of roads and cities, Commerce/Defensive bonuses, thus Economic deity. Very Rare.
- Sabazios, general Anatolain storm god, currently given incorrectly to the Zalmoxians, Culture deity, Common, his worship was spread quite far, Very Common.
- Sozon, Phrygian deity, a heroic rider deity which would later become very popular in the Roman period as part of the larger Heroic Rider cults. War Deity, Rare.
- Trqqas, Lycian version of ancient Luwian Tarhunt, War/Fertility deity, Very Rare.
- Trqund, Carian version of the Anatolian storm god, Fertility/Culture deity, Very Rare.
- Wanassa, Pamphylian (and Pisidian) deity, a wild Mother Goddess of where the valleys and plains meet. Archery and food bonuses? War/Fertility deity. Very Rare.
- Zeus Kimistenos, Paphlagonian diety, the Greek name for the Paphlagonian Zeus, storm god, protective elements, worshipped throughout Paphlagonia, War/Culture deity, Rare.
- Zeus Labraundus, an ancient Carian Zeus, at Labraunda in province 1977, royal Zeus associated with the rulers of Caria, Culture/War deity, Very Rare.
- Zeus Olbius, Cilician/Isaurian(Lalassian/Kennataian) deity, the Zeus of Olbe (1894), whose temple-state was ruled by the hereditary Teucrid dynasty, likely a Cilician/Isaurian storm god, War/Culture diety, Very Rare.
'Deified people':
- Mausolus, Carian deified ruler, holy site at 1981 Halicarnassus. See post #4 for a bit more info. Culture deity focussed on ruler prestige?, Very Rare.
- Perseus, Hellenic AND Anatolian, 'deity/deified', had a major cultic site at 161 Limyra, part of the Anatolian tradition of Bronze Age mythical hero worship. Was related to kingship and legitimacy in Lycia, so Culture/War deity?, Rare.
- Sarpedon, Lycian 'deity/deified hero', had a major cult centre at the arcropolis of 1995 Xanthus, saw widespread worship in Lycia. War deity, Rare.
Hellenic:
- Dioskouroi, Hellenic deity, the divine twins Castor and Pollux, holy site at 1714 Dioskourias, could perhaps come with very different modifiers, and could be either a War/Culture/Economic diety. Very Common.
- Hekate, Hellenic AND Anatolian deity, could have many different modifiers, perhaps a Religious tech one pertaining to her role as the mediator between the above and below (similar to Edbebe for the Pisidians), Culture deity, Very Common.
- Jupiter Dolichenos, Roman deity, a mystery cult deity based on the storm god from Dolikhe, should become a mystery cult deity once Romans move into the nearby area, and then become available to Rome. War deity, Very Rare (though the deity should be event related).
- Kybele, Hellenic deity, the Anatolians had their own mother goddesses, Kybele was at its core the Greek version of them, namewise based on the Phrygian mother goddess Matar Kubeliya. Phrygia was massively imporant to the development of the Greeks, and they had imported their own version of this deity at least 400 years before the game starts. Perhaps Cybele can eventually be removed from the Anatolian list, and given to the Romans under some conditions. Fertility deity, Common.
- Leukothea, Graeco-Pontic/Colchian the White Goddess worshipped at 1711 Sourion, Culture/Fertility deity?, Rare.
- Magna Mater, Roman deity, available to the Romans once they capture parts of inland Anatolia, Fertility deity, Rare.
- Zeus Dolikhenos, Aramaic deity, the Zeus of Dolikhe, holy site at 811 Dolikhe, a storm god related to fertility, rain, war, and a holy mountain. Fertility/War deity related to rain, Rare.
Egyptian:
- Neith, holy site at 519 Sais, War deity, Rare.
Zoroastrian:
- Vakhsh (Vaxšu), (Bactrian culture group) Iranian river god of the Oxus river, food, pop capacity bonuses, Fertility deity, Very Rare.
- Mah, Iranian lunar deity, probably what inspired Men, often worshipped alongside Mithra. Especially important for Anatolian Iranians. Fertility/Economic deity, associated with both water, growth, healing but also learning and wisdom. Rare.
- Varshayn (Varšayn), Sogdian deity, warrior god and protector deity. War deity. Rare.
Zalmoxian:
- Zemela, Thracian deity, an earth-goddess. Fertility deity with harvest/food focussed bonuses?, Rare.
*Pontic culture wasnt really a thing, they were Cappadocians, Pontic should be removed. If it stays, deities should be shared.
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