David Lerman wrote:

At 06:17 AM 5/18/98 -0700, Henry J. Cobb wrote:

But if Belldandy is a goddess she has every right to choose who she wants
as a lover.

Uh, reversed here.

As a goddess she had a duty.  As a human she is a free agent.

  It could be argued that by becoming human, she actually became closer to
Kami-sama by gaining free will (One of the standard interpretations of
"made in God's image").

I think Urd adequately establishes that the megami have free will even 
if they also have duties.

Now, what if the Olympian goddesses had been used?  (The origin of "free
love", I take it...)

  Which goddess?  Artemis or Athena who were always virgins (IIRC)?  Hera
(the one portrayed in the myths, not in the TV show "Hercules") who was
faithful to her husband  and fond of her children, but jealous of her
husband's affairs?
  Keichi saddled with an Olympian goddess would be funny.  Consider if it
was Athena.  She always thinks that she knows better (which usually

Hmm...  OK, we have Athena, who knows everything about everything, 
except that she knows nothing about men...starting to fall in love for 
the first time.  We have Aphrodite actively working toward her sister's
"downfall".  And we have Artemis who is really-really peeved at the idea 
of her sister succumbing to a man's lecherous desires and will do 
anything to stop it, but will also punish him for anything that looks 
like interest in another girl.  Call it, "Triple-A".

 would

be the case), is jealous of those whose skills rival hers (remember what
she did to Arachne), and would meddle more than Skuld or Urd.  She

As I understand it, Arachne wasn't just victorious, she was insulting.  
Athena probably would go ape if she lost a game of "Trivial Pursuit", 
though, even if not quite that bad.  

 would

also be far more dangerous as an opponent in a fight.