Race Relations

Question: What are the relationships like among your own pantheons, the Annuna, the Elohim and the Bogovi?

For the Bogovi, things aren't very complicated; neither culture is really in their backyard, so they're probably somewhat unconcerned about either of them, at least historically. They're likely to take issue with some of the Elohim shenanigans when they upset the balance of nature, particularly the Baal/Mot/Yam rivalry and how it tends to damage parts of the World when the three of them get into it; those enough in the know to realize that the Elohim have a habit of transplanting entire populations of mortals into their own private sanctums are probably appalled by the situation. Nevertheless, the Bogovi need allies against Stvanarje, and the Elohim, unfortunately, are some of the best candidates as they are not currently engaged in a full-scale war themselves, so they may have to grit their teeth and maybe try to educate their fellow gods about the wider world they inhabit. As for the Anunna, the Bogovi can respect their hands-off approach when it comes to humanity, but suspect that they are too self-involved to be much help to others when push comes to shove.

The Anunna probably view both other pantheons as children, much as they do with anyone who wasn't worshiped at least five thousand years ago. The Elohim, in particular, are probably considered especially fractious and rambunctious, and their historic tendency to occasionally vie with the Anunna for mortal worshipers probably leads some of the Mesopotamian gods (the more tolerant ones, like Enki or Sin) to view them as amusing young things, while others (the crankier ones, like Enlil or Ishtar) may view them as upstarts who need to be put in their place. The Elohim are also fairly old, as godly ages are reckoned, so there may be just a little bit of rivalry going on, though of course the Anunna would never admit to such a thing. As for the Bogovi, the Anunna probably find their odd little laws quaint but in general have no firm opinion on them as long as they behave themselves.

The Elohim are temperamental and their outlook can shift pretty quickly, but they probably have a guarded respect for the Anunna, with whom they've coexisted for pretty much their entire run and with whom relations have usually been pretty civil, or at least seldom outright violent. The Mesopotamian gods' condescending attitude is likely to set off Canaanite tempers, so they probably don't work closely unless the Anunna call on them for aid (in which case I'm sure their gloating that the Anunna needed their strength is probably insufferable). The Slavs are a strange bunch; the Elohim don't really understand why they'd want to dilute themselves by pretending to be part of other cultures or why they're so slavishly devoted to harmonious interaction, and tend to interpret both behaviors as signs of military and leadership weakness. They might be quite surprised to discover that the Bogovi are a power in their own right.

Quite a handful, those old, I-was-smiting-dragons-when-you-were-a-twinkle-in-your-Titan-parent's-eye gods.