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The Egyptian Gods
The animal-headed Egyptian gods starred in the PDI Pantheon, which was originally for Keenvention. They are:
*Osiris, who is a mummy because his brother, Seth, killed him. Anubis is credited with bringing him back to life. He used to be the king of the gods, but since his death has been king of the Underworld.
*Horus, falcon-headed son of Osiris and now king of the gods.
*Thoth, ibis-headed patron of scribes and god of the moon. A cheeky boy.
*Anubis, jackal-headed god of the dead.
*Sekhmet, lioness-headed goddess of vengeance. Short-tempered.
and:
*Bast or Bastet, cat-headed goddess of love and sex and generally having a good time.
Centaurs
Archibald (the dark one) and Horatio (the blond one) are centaurs, beings belonging to Greek mythology (which is why they're wandering around in Arcadia). As Archibald comments in Episode 12, the Greeks never saw fit to invent female centaurs. There is a baby centaur in one episode of the tv series Hercules who has a human mother and a centaur father. Whether it was hard or traumatic for the woman to produce a baby of a different species is never investigated. Neither is the logistics of a woman being mated by a beast who has the lower half of a horse. Centaur reproduction is one of the great mysteries of the universe.
But the source of Archibald and Horatio's names is not. They are from the tv series Hornblower, which is based on the novels of Cecil Scott Forester. It is unlikely, however, that Archibald and Horatio would be as acomplished at naval battles with the French, or at romantic interludes in Spanish prisons, as Midshipman Horatio Hornblower and Archie Kennedy.
Epona
The Celtic goddess of horses and cavalry and one or two other things. Strictly speaking, she should be a woman who rides a horse, but much to the delight of Archibald and Horatio she is, in fact, a female centaur. She likes her stallions large - very large, actually - and points out the shortcomings of less-fortunate gentlemen to them in no uncertain terms. And she has a Scottish accent.
Hades
Greek Lord of the Underworld and professional pain-in-the-bum. Hades is one of those neighbours and he irritates the life out of Satan, who has to put up with his complaints about Hell, about the demons, about the Seven-headed Dragon... In fact, Hades Coming Round to Have Words is such a regular event in the lives of Hell's denizens that they take bets on what hour he'll be over today and what he'll be whingeing about.
Will Shakespeare
The English-speaking world's best-known god. Worshipped by millions across the globe as a genuis and the greatest writer ever. No-one actually knows who he was when he was alive, a characteristic which suggests that his godhood was probably inevitable. So what's he doing now he's attained divinity? Why, the same thing he did when he was alive.
Gabriel
The Archangel Gabriel is an ex-lover of Satan's. Their relationship fell apart when Satan discovered God had been lying to the angels and Gabriel refused to believe it. He did save Satan's life because he couldn't bear to watch God destroy him. But apart from that he's probably just one of those people who cling to their belief to the exclusion of all else.
Greek heroes
There's a collection of Heroes standing in the final panel of Episode 23. From the left they are:
*Perseus, who rescued Andromeda from a sea monster with the help of Pegasus.
*Herakles the demigod, wearing the skin of the Nemean lion which he killed for his first Labour).
*Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons.
*Bellerophon who killed the Chimera, also with the help of Pegasus, I believe.
*Hector, who isn't Greek, he's Trojan, but I thought I'd put him in anyway.
*Jason, king of somewhere or other (Corinth?) who sailed with the Argonauts and stole the golden fleece and was completely taken in by a young lady named Medea.
*Achilles, who I hate because Patrokles was in love with him and he treated him badly (see Colleen McCullough's "Song of Troy". See also "Troilus and Cressida" by Will, where Thersites says "Thou art thought to be Achilles' male varlet" and when asked what this means replies "Why, his masculine whore." True enough. Achilles treated him like a whore.) Grr! I hate Achilles!
*Anyway, next to Achilles, paying Charon, is Theseus, he who killed the Minotaur.
*And finally, Odysseus, a smart boy, said to be red-haired and left-handed (yay!) by Colleen McCullough, who is my authority on all things Greek and Roman. He was the one who invented the Trojan Horse and is much more interesting than the tv version of The Odyssey would have you believe.
Villains
Hell is home to a variety of Villains, it being the place they go when they're killed, or when their movie ends. But Satan chooses not to torture them (out of villainous fellow-feeling) so they generally have a good time there.
Foozle
One of the creator deities of the Gribbles. Like all his people, he's deceptively cute and fuzzy. He is believed to have created the gribbles' home world Gribbleon by murdering and dismembering the Before Gods in the approved Godly fashion.
Fuzzle
The other major creator deity of the Gribbles. Fuzzle herself was created by a mysterious non-gribble being known as "the Four-limbs". No-one knows any more what the Four-limbs really looked like, although the breakaway sect known as The New Order of the Four-limbs believes he appeared to the Prophet Woozle during the Great Holy Wars. He is said to have been mostly purple and quite wrathful. Beyond that, little is known.
Peter-bloody-Pan
A small flying boy with pointy ears who dresses in green, enjoys fighting pirates, has been known to crow like a rooster and is generally accompanied by a foul-mouthed fairy named Tinkerbell. There's little else to be said about him, except that he's something of a public nuisance in the Greek cosmos and that Pan-whose-other-name-is-not-Peter despises him.