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Marriage to a God
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Not literal marriage to a Physical God, that is, but a symbolic marriage to a less-tangible deity, who may or may not be real. Sometimes it's fairly benign — the girl in question (and it usually is a girl) simply serves as a priestess of the deity to whom she is wedded. Other times, this involves Human Sacrifice, in which case the god is probably either evil (possibly a demon or an Eldritch Abomination) or nonexistent. This type can be the dark secret of the Town with a Dark Secret and may be accompanied by a Fête Worse than Death. Compare Afterlife of Service, where someone is killed to provide a dead person with company in the afterlife. For the more literal type of marriage, see Divine Date. |
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Staring in Wonder Woman (1987) Cheetah gained her powers by going through a bloody ritual to become a "bride of Urzkartaga". | |
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Samurai Jack: The High Priestess of the Daughters of Aku cult was so devoted to the Physical God of Evil she worshiped that she drank his pure evil essence and bore his children. | |
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In The Oblongs, two nuns get into a cat fight when one of them declares that she's a bride of Christ, and the other one adamantly claims that she's the bride of Christ. | |
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In The Once and Future King, Elaine joins a convent after Lancelot abandons her. The narrator notes that there's nothing particularly romantic about her decision to become a "bride of Christ", and she just thought it was the only thing for her to do. | |
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| Marriage to a God / int_2372359 | type |
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This is because Issa forgot to give the original Salmissra immortality and, in typical Nyissan fashion, the Nyissans thought it easier to get themselves another queen rather than risk waking up and possibly annoying their god. Polgara 'fixes' this during The Belgariad, when the current Salmissra takes a not-so-healthy shine to Garion. She makes her immortal, but turns her into a giant snake (she ends up rather preferring it like this.) 20 girls are initially selected for "training", and when one takes the throne, the remaining 19 are killed to prevent dissention. It's actually best if Salmissra lacks qualifications, as displaying any semblance of competence tends to lead to the grooming of their successors. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Gone, Maggie, Gone", a nun claims to be "married to Jesus", and Homer responds "Yeah, right, and I'm married to Wonder Woman!" | |
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What the Tasiha intended for Yuna in the Hero’s chapter of Yuki Yuna is a Hero. Due to the Shinju rapidly losing power, and the Vertex becoming more enraged at humanity, the Taisha decide to hold the Shinkon, which would ‘marry’ Yuna to the Shinju and allow humanity to become ‘people of god’, though at the cost of Yuna’s life. And while Yuna agrees to the ceremony at first, the Hero Club refuses to allow her to sacrifice herself, and thanks to them and the spirits of past heroes, the ceremony is stopped at the very last second. | |
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The Australian mini-series Brides of Christ shows the rituals of becoming a nun through the eyes of Diana and Veronica, from their postulancy to their novitiate and taking of the vows. There's even a wedding, but only brides and no (visible) groom. | |
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The SCP Foundation is currently containing SCP-1284, the latest in a line of unrelated girls who claim to be married to the Moon. Thus far, each of them has died in the onset of puberty. | |
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Critical Role: Kashaw, from the first campaign, is a cleric and husband to Vesh, a goddess of evil, to whom he was forcibly married at age sixteen. | |
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| Marriage to a God / int_53df806a | type |
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In Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy, the remote mountain village of Hoogland traditionally offers up a bride to the Dragonlord, who they believe to be responsible for the destructive whirlwinds that plague the village. The bride is taken to the Dragonlord's chapel and locked inside, where she supposedly transforms into a gentle breeze and temporarily quells the deity's wrath. All that's left behind are Empty Piles of Clothing. Subverted; there's a hidden tunnel that leads from the chapel to the nearby woods. One of the local women secretly brings the brides a change of clothes and helps them escape to pursue a new life elsewhere. | |
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The girl who traveled with the swamp in the fifth episode of Mushishi. She was sacrificed to the river god as a bride, so that the floods in her village would stop. When, to her surprise, she survived and woke up in the swamp (now with green hair) she decides to go along with it and basically act like the swamp is her spouse. | |
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In an episode of The Angry Beavers, Norb and Dag are watching a late-night B-Movie about Viking Women from Venus, who drink radioactive lava from a volcano, in a competition to become the Bride of the Volcano. | |
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Exalted features the Brides of Ahlat, an Amazon Brigade in the southern regions of Creation who are symbolically married to the local god of war. | |
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The Chant in Dragon Age: Origins tells of Andraste, a mortal woman with whom The Maker fell in love, and who became His prophet. She then led a crusade against The Empire, was betrayed by her human husband out of jealousy (and not feeling like he could compete with God), and burned at the stake. | |
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| Marriage to a God / int_634e8749 | type |
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In Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon, one character is "engaged" to Tento, the god worshipped by the Tsukigata family. Turns out that said "god" is actually a race of freaky bug demi-people that need human women to reproduce, as there are no female Tento. The women who are mated with them end up insane and physically warped. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons module Adventures in Blackmoor. Toska Rusa was selected by the Afridhi to become the mistress and high priestess of their god Zugzul the One. | |
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This is the heretics' plan for Casca in the Conviction Arc in Berserk. Due to misunderstanding of her Brand of Sacrifice and the Demon Child that protects her, the cultists consider her a witch and a suitable high priestess, and they aim to have her "become family" with the Great Goat Head that leads their dark religion, complete with "consummation" (which isn't really helped that Casca is too insane due to the horrors that she suffered during the Eclipse to give proper consent). When the Great Goat Head is turned into an Apostle Spawn by the Egg of the Perfect World, this turns into an out-and-out rape attempt that is only stopped by Guts showing up Just in Time to save her and kick ass on the possessed cultists. | |
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The Bride of the Water God begins with the heroine Soah being offered up as a sacrifice in symbolic marriage to the water god Habaek in order to end a severe drought. Then it turns out it's not all that symbolic and things get more complicated from there. | |
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Girl Genius: The original Heterodyne was said to be married to a local battle goddess after he drank from her spring (the source of the Dyne) and didn't die horribly. | |
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Adam Destine from ClanDestine has this going on. It's a djinn, rather than a god, but the thought counts. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, the Silent Sisters are seen as "wives" of The Stranger, Westeros' equivalent to The Grim Reaper. Stories of Silent Sisters being assaulted during the War of the Five Kings are not only uniquely heinous but blasphemous to boot. | |
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It's also a common Old Testament metaphor which really is less of a surprise than some might think (a lot of the New Testament metaphors were shout outs to the Old that readers or hearers were expected to understand). Israel was/is the wife of God (at least, after Josiah got done kicking Asherah out). To the point that idolatry is compared to adultery. | |
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Happens to the Minoan girl in The Egyptian. But God Is Dead and it's a Crapsack World anyway, so things go badly. | |
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Quite a few modern polytheists have been getting married to deities. It's caused a lot of controversy within the pagan/polytheist community; especially since a lot have been getting married to Loki recently. The opposing side feels like the spouses are doing it due to Thor's influence, while the spouses claim that it's a genuine dynamic between them and the deity. (Odin apparently has a lot of recent human wives as well; and that can't be explained away by Marvel's fanbase.) Given the constant theme in religion where mortal "spouses" can be anything from "priest/devotee" to "Human Sacrifice", it seems the gods have always had a looser definition of "marriage" compared to humans. |
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Referenced in Troy. Achilleus tells Berseis, who is a virgin priestess of Apollo, that if she professes to love the gods, she'll find the romance one-sided. Of course, in traditional Greek Mythology, that's not exactly true — at least on the physical side of the relationship. On the emotional side, he's pretty much spot on. |
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The organization that would become the Sisters of Battle in Warhammer 40,000 were first known as the Brides of the Emperor. Thankfully it's just a name, as the God-Emperor in question is a few twitching cells away from definitely kicking the bucket. Official lore indicates that Sisters of Battle aren't even sworn to chastity (despite their reputation as "nuns with guns"). It's just that, well, are you going to hit on them? | |
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Warhammer has the dark elf Witch Elves, virgin women symbolically married to Khaine, the god of war and murder. Apparently "he is a jealous god, unwilling to share his chosen ones" and the Witch Elves are happy to stick sharp, pointy things into anyone who tries it. | |
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Smurfette has a dream of marrying Jesus in Heaven in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "The Smurf Of Solomon". | |
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In True Blood, Maryann is a maenad, and her plan is to become the bride of Dionysus by finding the perfect sacrifice and ritually cutting out his or her heart as tribute to him. She believes this ritual will call Dionysus to Earth, after which he will ravish and devour her until she's "lost into oblivion". | |
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