Doctor Who: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Pantheon Of The Gods

10. The Pantheon Is A Time Lord Fairytale

Time Lords have pretty messed-up childhoods. Typical bedtime reading on Gallifrey includes works like Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, stories about sentient universes in the shape of frogs, and most fun of all, stories of the Pantheon of Discord.

In The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, the Tenth Doctor reveals that he's known "the legends of the Pantheon" since he was a little boy. These stories must have been like the myths and legends we hear when we're growing up, and if we look back at Doctor Who, this actually checks out.

In The Celestial Toymaker, the Doctor reveals that he's heard rumours of the titular trickster, and then in Kinda, the Fifth Doctor tells Panna that he too has heard the legends of the Mara. The Doctor's knowledge of Sutekh in Pyramids of Mars is a weird mish-mash of Egyptian and Osiran mythology, but we could probably chalk that up to his childhood stories too.

Judging by the Doctor's bewildered reaction to Maestro in The Devil's Chord, some of those stories clearly had more of an impact than others!