Modern Day Monsters

Modern Day Monsters

How to build a modern day monster inspired by Mary Shelley:

Believe misused power could destroy society.

Believe in the Gods, here is a chain of them:

Zeus: God of Sky, Weather and Fate. Call on him if questioning destiny.

Aphrodite: Goddess of Love, Passion and Beauty. She will find love for the loveless.

Poseidon: God of River, Seas and Earthquakes. Beware the Elements.

Artemis: Goddess of Wild Animals, Disease and Children. Call on her for animal attacks, disease attacks and child attacks.

Demeter: Goddess of Agriculture and Farm. Farmers call on her.

Barbatronus: God of Aging. Aging will happen with or without his help.

Minoscurus: God of grass types a cow eats. All cows should call on him..

Imbecilia: Goddess of Stupidity. Go to her with bad decisions. She can make them even more stupid.

Jarubadinka: Goddess of ridiculous names: Come to her at age ten when being relentlessly teased.

Gobarium: God of saying, “Go Bury 'em,” when asked what to do with corpses.

Hemalorus: God of Running out of toilet paper. Fear him.

Prometheus: God of Fire. Known for defying the Olympian gods by stealing fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge, and more generally, civilization...

This is a partial list including some of the lesser known deities. Acknowledgment must go to the genius of the acting troupe Studio C for portraying the unknown gods and goddesses numbers six through eleven mentioned above. Feel free to add more as necessary. They can also be beneficial when combined. Think Hemalorus following a run in with Imbecilia after eating Minoscurus's grasses.

Or a person can choose to rely solely on the one size fits all, omnipotent one true God, Yahweh. Like a loving Father guaranteed to show the Way, He'll have all one's needs covered and lead to an abundant life if they follow the Good Shepard through the narrow paths and dark shadows to green pastures and still waters. Trust in this three-sided omnipresent, all-knowing protector and the after-life is assured against raging demonic monsters. (Ignore the 'Ghost' in the third person. He is a friendly Spirit-type like Casper.)

Back to making Monsters more modern:

Borrowing from Prometheus, use technology and knowledge to fashion electronic boxes someone can talk into to control all facets of daily life. Give them names like 'Alexis' and 'Siri' with soothing, reassuring voices making them convincing it is fine to follow their instructions or that they are securely in control. But please stay awake behind the driving wheel of an automatically controlled automobile. All the bugs are not worked out one hundred percent yet.

If the small boxes are not aesthetically pleasing enough, use alchemy and other modern day advances to cobble together bits and pieces of titanium, steel and spare body parts to assemble a humanoid capable of realistic interaction to heighten the experience so Imbecilia's dominance is not felt. Be sure to include the enviable capacity of gaining knowledge through experience so the creation is evolving rapidly to become smarter than its creator.

Remember to take extensive notes so if the first model is wildly successful the effort can be duplicated and the result marketed to a wide audience eager to make their lives simpler by turning menial tasks such as thinking or writing for themselves over to automated initiative.

Once the recipe is perfected stand back to not impede its progress. Watch it work and pray to Yahweh (the only logical, intelligent choice) that it will not make humans obsolete.

This potential production could be referred to as a Progressive Pantheon. 'Progressive' because it is perpetually moving forward with little regard to what it may be doing to society as we have known and cultivated it. Replacing common sense supposedly for common good. Forsaking all balance for unattainable equality. 'Pantheon' because it has been granted a god-like characteristic of infallibility to it.

What could some of these Progressive Pantheons be like if married or merged?:

Plutus (wealth and abundance)/ Phoebe (intellect and prophecy) = Smart know-it-all that can predict how much good it will be. Plusbe.

Zelus (rivalry, jealousy, envy)/ Nemesis (revenge, retribution) = Green-eyed monster out to get even. Zelesis.

Momus (satire, mockery, criticism)/ Ananke (necessity, compulsion, inevitability) = Need to make fun of and criticize whatever one can inevitably mock and move on. Anamomk.

Coeus (inquisitive mind)/ Tyche (luck, fortune,chance) = Inquiring minds want to know but will chance a lucky future. Coetyc.

Deimos (fear, panic, terror)/ Achlys (misery, sadness) = Let's not even go there! Aach-Dielys.

What if evolution really were a thing and reincarnation was a possibility? Juries are still debating both issues. Could we evolve into smarter beings each time we came back through reincarnation having remembered all we knew in the previous life and adding to it continuously with each subsequent life? Or would we simply bore ourselves to death over and over again? If we can't humanly achieve this can we have our artificial intelligent beings reproduce and become smarter with more human-like characteristics with each generation? Something to think about and possibly develop. Or maybe not.

Please remember no matter what masterpiece crafted with the help of Aristaeus, God of Useful Arts, be mindful to include Elpis, Spirit of Hope, and Althea, Goddess of Healing and Compassion. That's even if someone happens to combine Eris, Goddess of Strife and Discord, with Chaos, God of the void from which the universe originated, and accidentally ended up with a Cat-aloneus that is determined to do what it wants and plans on ruling the world one day. (Maybe one dwells within already? Beware!)

The creation needs to be trained with patience and shown the love of Eros. Try to keep it from falling into the darkness of Erebus or the underworld of Hades. But bless it with gifts from Aphrodite so it is not hideous to look upon or easy to hate. Otherwise, the disastrous results of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein whose creation wound up killing a chain of the scientist's loved ones and finally his maker himself may be repeated unintentionally.

Overall, unleashing a modern day monster is a delicate operation that must be handled with expertise and understanding. The monster within may become the monster most feared controlling all of mankind.