You know, I played around with this in my world building for my combined ttrpg/writing universe.
Some of the old gods fought for control over modern concepts like that.
Hermes ended up the god of messages in pretty much all forms, including SMS when that happened in the real world.
Elegua, aka Papa Legba ended up snagging control over the internet, though he eventually traded that power off because he found it boring.
Hephaestus did indeed end up as master of pretty much all manufacturing technology, particularly metallurgy, plastics, and eventually robotics. One of those low key gods that none of my players ever saw the real reach they had, and I haven’t worked out into any writing yet.
Zeus got killed, and Thor wasn’t interested, but also wasn’t willing to let any of the other thunder/lightning gods control electricity. So it ended up being a semi-sentient force of its own. Again, it never got developed, but I had the idea of it becoming a god along with a few other things like it. American Gods ended up covering the territory better than I would have, so it’s one of those things in the back of my head.
I would end up figuring out an in universe deity of things as I ran across a reason to think about it at all. Some things, I deemed to big for gods to control directly, or in total. Like gravity. No one deity could own that power because none of them was willing to allow any others to be able to rule it. Gaea, as goddess of the Earth could manipulate gravity up to a point, but not so much as to be able to disrupt the solar system. Same with Ra and the sun (where he also had access to a limited range of nuclear forces). The in universe explanation was that those particular kinds of forces were just too able to undo everything, even when darkness itself was a goddess, and chaos had a church. So, the gods just made sure nobody took over some things at all.
But, I probably would have taken something like distilling and folded it into one of the various gods that deal with alcohol in other forms. Like Ogun (also spelled Ogoun), who was specifically a deity of rum and rum making along with his better known aspect as a deity of smiths (though the term deity or god gets iffy with some of the African entities). Ogun is one of the few spirits, gods, or similar that specifically was linked to a distilled spirit of any kind, so that’s where I would slap all of it. With him also being a metal worker, it makes even more sense because distillation without metal is a shit ton harder.
I dunno, that’s probably past the point of being boring lol.
You know, I played around with this in my world building for my combined ttrpg/writing universe.
Some of the old gods fought for control over modern concepts like that.
Hermes ended up the god of messages in pretty much all forms, including SMS when that happened in the real world.
Elegua, aka Papa Legba ended up snagging control over the internet, though he eventually traded that power off because he found it boring.
Hephaestus did indeed end up as master of pretty much all manufacturing technology, particularly metallurgy, plastics, and eventually robotics. One of those low key gods that none of my players ever saw the real reach they had, and I haven’t worked out into any writing yet.
Zeus got killed, and Thor wasn’t interested, but also wasn’t willing to let any of the other thunder/lightning gods control electricity. So it ended up being a semi-sentient force of its own. Again, it never got developed, but I had the idea of it becoming a god along with a few other things like it. American Gods ended up covering the territory better than I would have, so it’s one of those things in the back of my head.
I would end up figuring out an in universe deity of things as I ran across a reason to think about it at all. Some things, I deemed to big for gods to control directly, or in total. Like gravity. No one deity could own that power because none of them was willing to allow any others to be able to rule it. Gaea, as goddess of the Earth could manipulate gravity up to a point, but not so much as to be able to disrupt the solar system. Same with Ra and the sun (where he also had access to a limited range of nuclear forces). The in universe explanation was that those particular kinds of forces were just too able to undo everything, even when darkness itself was a goddess, and chaos had a church. So, the gods just made sure nobody took over some things at all.
But, I probably would have taken something like distilling and folded it into one of the various gods that deal with alcohol in other forms. Like Ogun (also spelled Ogoun), who was specifically a deity of rum and rum making along with his better known aspect as a deity of smiths (though the term deity or god gets iffy with some of the African entities). Ogun is one of the few spirits, gods, or similar that specifically was linked to a distilled spirit of any kind, so that’s where I would slap all of it. With him also being a metal worker, it makes even more sense because distillation without metal is a shit ton harder.
I dunno, that’s probably past the point of being boring lol.