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Which deity is your bass?

I think of my Fender "Geddy Lee" Jazz as Buddha.
At least that's the impression that I get.

Then I think of my Ernie Ball Stingray as the Hindu deity Vishnu. If you played it you would know exactly what I'm talking about.
 
I like to think of Gemini (my MM Stingray 4) as Thor

Etymology

Further information: thunder
Proto-Germanic *thunaraz,[6] "thunder" gave rise to Old Norse Þorr, German Donner, Dutch donder as well as Old English Þunor whence Modern English thunder with epenthetic d.
Swedish tordön and Danish and Norwegian torden have the suffix -dön/-den originally meaning "rumble" or "din." The Scandinavian languages also have the word dunder, borrowed from Middle Low German.
Both the God and "thunder" are related to the Celtichi taranis (modern Irish tarann), the term for thunder as well as the name of the God Taranis.
 
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