Kerbal Mythology

[Maple Kerman]

Kerbal Mythology

I've always thought about how the Kerbals see deities and other religious/mythological figures, and there isn't really much to go by in the game other than Moho and Bop.
I took it upon myself to make a chart of mythological figures that I think the Kerbals may have worshipped. (In a way, this is a continuation of this forum thread).
This is by no means a "standard" for Kerbal mythology, as I don't really expect most people to care too much about it anyway, meaning that these names and definitions are open.
However, I did think it would be cool to share my ideas in this forum post, so keep reading if you'd like to know what I came up with.
You are free to use this "model" of Kerbal Mythology for anything you want, these are just cool ideas I have (e.g., naming your ships, your missions, Kopernicus planets, etc.).

I decided to model the deities after Greek and Roman mythological figures (unoriginal, I know). Similar to our own solar system, I made sure that the names of the figures coincided with the celestial bodies in Kerbal Space Program that had real-world counterparts. Obviously, stock KSP has a reduced solar system, so I wouldn't be able to do it with names made only by Squad. I decided to use the names of celestial bodies found in OPM and MPE, two high-quality mods that add "kerbalized" equivalents of real-world celestial bodies into the game. The celestial bodies that these two mods add counterparts for are named after Greek and Roman gods, so I was able to match up each god with the "Kerbal" version of their name. Even after doing so, there were still a number of Greek and Roman gods that didn't have Kerbal counterparts, so I made my own names that try to maintain the same style. I ended up adding one additional god that wasn't present in any of these mods or ideas, which was Alternis, the god of change and difference, from Alternis Kerbol Rekerjiggered. I also added the Kraken.

One last thing; several of the deities have purposes or roles different from their Greek and Roman counterparts do. This is because I wanted their roles to make sense in the in-game universe.

Legend:
Green = Names made by Squad, found in the stock game.
Red = Names found in Outer Planets Mod. (Credits to @CaptRobau)
Purple = Names found in Minor Planets Expansion. (Credits to @Exo's Lab)
Black = Names made by me. Credits to @NovaSiliskofor "Alternis".

Name	Greek/Roman Equivalent	Role
Kebus	Phoebus Apollo	God of reparation and solar power
Moho	Hermes/Mercury	God of voyages, lava, and fire
Eve	Aphrodite/Venus	Goddess of passion and deceit
Duna	Ares/Mars	God of combat and explosions
Dres	Demeter/Ceres	Goddess of cycles and dullness
Jool	Zeus/Jupiter	God of the clouds
Sarnus	Cronus/Saturn	God of time warping and fate
Urlum	Uranus/Caelus	God of atmospheres and empty space
Neidon	Poseidon/Neptune	God of the oceans
Plock	Hades/Pluto	God of death and currency
Krova	Hera/Juno	Goddess of Kerbalinas and family
Vant	Hestia/Vesta	Goddess of spacecraft
Alnerva	Pallas Athena/Minerva	Goddess of wisdom and missions
Kortana	Artemis/Diana	Goddess of the wilderness
Vulko	Hephaestus/Vulcan	God of engineering and building
Bakos	Dionysus/Bacchus	God of food and celebration
Zore	Psyche/Anima	Goddess of the soul
Edas	Eros/Cupid	God of obsession
Ervo	Eris/Discordia	Goddess of confusion
Alternis	None/Janus	God of change and difference
The Kraken	None	God of chaos and destruction
Ike	Phobos/Pavor	Personification of fear and panic
Deke	Deimos/Metus	Personification of terror

Edited November 18, 2022 by Maple Kerman

[Souptime]

cuul

[Urus28]

I'm not sure they are so ancient.... After all kerbals continue to sacrifice rocket and kerbonauts to these planets

[Maple Kerman]

1 minute ago, Urus28 said:

I'm not sure they are so ancient.... After all kerbals continue to sacrifice rocket and kerbonauts to these planets

True.

[Souptime]

Maybe some day we could come up with a kerballized everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_deities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures

[Stormpilot]

Very very nice @Maple Kerman!

Ceres is just like Dres! Nobody knows about them!

 

Edited February 15, 2021 by STORMPILOTkerbalkind

[Maple Kerman]

14 hours ago, STORMPILOTkerbalkind said:

Ceres is just like Dres! Nobody knows about them!

That's true. 

[kerbiloid]

God of Unity bugs
God of console bugs
God of software debugging (aka The Unknown God)
God of releases (does nothing, but rules others)

[space_nerd]

don't forget jebediah, the overlord of casos 

[Ziggy Kerman]

1 hour ago, space_nerd said:

don't forget jebediah, the overlord of casos 

Jeb, Son of the Kraken, Explorer Extraordinaire, Master of Daredevils 

[kerbiloid]

Bobbilly Kerman - a patron of auxilliary staff and bobbibilling (an occupation when you lift useless pieces of metal in gym instead of rotating an electric generator).

[T-20000]

On 3/12/2021 at 9:49 AM, Ziggy Kerman said:

Jeb, Son of the Kraken, Explorer Extraordinaire, Master of Daredevils 

Correction: Jeb, son of the Kraken, Master of Survival, Master at getting picked for mission