Mythology and Folklore Writing Prompts

"I am the Bookwyrm, keeper of lost knowledge. My hoard contains encyclopedia from ancient, long dead civilizations, and love stories written in glyphs that haven't seen use in a thousand years. So tell me little morsel, what have you brought to add that's better than your flesh and bones."

You're a Norse Viking who just died with honor in battle. You just met your valkyrie... but you also just met the reason they carry weapons.

The gods exist. All of them. And they walk among mankind. And the reason you know this is because you just found out your poker group is where they all gather once a week to let off steam.

You decided to take a boat out to sea in the dead of night. When the water is calm and the stars hide away in fear, an inhumanly beautiful song could be heard beneath the waves. Unfortunately for the beast, you came prepared.

Lucifer was banished to the underworld for rebelling against God, but instead of an empty wasteland he finds it’s still ruled by Hades and Persephone; the last two Greek gods in power.

You and your lover have been summoned to become heroes. But the gods decide that they will keep your lover as a plaything. So you decide to kill them, and... you somehow do.

You learned about the ancient gods in school, and as a joke you decided to reenact one of the rituals described in your textbook. You did not expect the god to actually answer.

A lonesome but kinky introvert begins to worship an obscure minor sex deity in the hopes of their favor. Unable to ignore the plight of a rare follower, the deity takes pity upon them and answers their prayer.

A knight rescues a beautiful princess, finds out his squire is in fact a girl, and draws the attention of the amorous dryad stalking their campsite. It's going to be a busy night.

A young man joins an all female adventuring Party consisting of a paladin, a cleric and a celestial warlock. He soon learns that they all worship the Same godess of fertility and Sexuality.

The gods demand the sacrifice of a virgin woman once a month. You find this to be a barbaric practice and seek to overturn the god's demands. You chose to do this not with a holy revolution, but by making sure there are no more virgins left to sacrifice.

The god of pleasure has been sealed for a few thousand years. She cant even masturbate so, needless to say she's quite pent up. But this passer-by might help with that, Not only are they cute they look like just the type to undo her seal...

The goddess of lust, sealed for a century by the followers of the god of purity, tormented by the powers of her own domain, kept in constant pleasure, constantly on the edge of climax but never over. But today the seal has broken...

"Hi!" The scantily clad girl at the door smiles. "Do you have a moment to talk about our Lady Laerrere, Goddess of Light, Love and Lust?"

A hedonistic goddess who hasn’t visited Earth in many decades discovers all the new sex toys she's been missing out on.

Let's create a new mythos centering around sexuality, pleasure, and sexual acceptance. (Maybe the creation myth is that the earth and sky are eternally fucking.* Maybe thunder is a goddess' orgasms.** Maybe the masochist God of the hunt is punished by the God on nature.)

You thought it was a good gig for a small God of only one little mountain. A virgin every few years to join you in your pocket realm, but after a few thousand years you're just tired of needing to teach them *everything* all over again.

He'd just found out that he was the descendant of an ancient Fertility god... That would explain why; 1. All his childhood friends were women 2. They were all super curvy , and still growing bigger, and 3. They all wanted to be his Harem and get to have his children.

A long forgotten goddess gives a personal blessing to the only person to pray to her in centuries.

A pair of gods have been quarreling over the path of humanity for generations. One day they see two young men fighting over the affections of a young woman and decide to make a bet. Whoever choose the man to bed her first correctly wins. They’re starting to get creative with their meddling.

"But you're the god of chastity, marriage, protection, and the sacred home! How did you end up as the god of prostitutes and brothels too?!" "Well, I figured that, even if I didn't like it, brothels and prostitutes would exist no matter what, so if they exist, they might as well exist safely"

"But you're the god of chastity, marriage, protection, and the sacred home! How did you end up as the god of prostitutes and brothels too?!" "Well, I figured that, even if I didn't like it, brothels and prostitutes would exist no matter what, so if they exist, they might as well exist safely"

In all of her years as a Siren, nobody's ever sung back. Until now.

For a Goddess that has modesty as one of her virtues, she ironically wears pretty much no clothing. At least the look on her face when you told her that was absolutely priceless.

Gods are called Gods because no mortal has any chance against them... so what do you call a mortal that can kill a God?

“YOU SLEPT WITH HER?!” Your friend says. “I don’t see what the big deal is, she was nice.” “SHES THE GODDESS OF WAR!”

You roll at you look at the evil queen's backstory. She was a princess who was never rescued. You too was a princess who was never rescued by a prince. You saved yourself.

“How did you quell the wrath of the goddess?” *The royals asked. You’re too embarrassed to tell them she turned you into her new sex toy.

While on a camping trip you snuck away to masterbate. Once you've finished you see that the clearing you're in has almost purposefully arranged stones that you've gotten your seed on, and the whole clearing is surrounded by mushrooms.

Lilith has returned to Earth to tell her side of the story, as no one wants to listen to her, she switches tactics and becomes an Influencer