Pedestriana

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Pedestriana
Name Pedestriana
Race divine
Age immortal
Occupation Goddess of pedal utility
Physical appearance In front of mass gatherings of the Faithful wherever the most dextrous pedal practitioners are celebrated
Residence The Tackle Urn?
Death
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Appearances
Books Unseen Academicals
Cameos



Goddess of things using feet.


Footballers????


The goddess appears early and late in the events of Unseen Academicals to promote and direct the Beautiful Game which serves as a sacrament to her.



Annotation

Most people know the Biblical concept of divine retribution which runs ...an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.... and after a while realise this comes up in the Discworld interpretation as embodied in the Gods Blind Io (eyes) and Offler (teeth). But take a closer look at Deuteronomy 19:21. Which reads, in full:

Thine eye shall not pity. Life shall go for life; an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot...

Pedestriana is intimately associated with feet. In the same primal way Io gets eyes and Offler gets teeth. Now which God or Goddess does hands?

Seven-Handed Sek. Of course. Thank you for the prompt.