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Click on the Start ButtonMaryLupin wrote:(there should be an accent grave over the first "e" in Barere)
If conventional religion has lost its force, is a return to paganism a return to the sacred? Adds piquancy toRobert Tulip wrote:. . . regards nothing as sacred, hence Gaiman's sense of a gathering storm. Turning this popular view around, Gaiman almost makes nothing into something - by regarding the myths which formerly provided meaning as something real. . .
The author uses dieties, or "gods" stemming from legends as characters. For example, he uses Odin, (from Norse paganism) Coatlicue, (from Aztec mthyology) and Czernobog, (a slavic diety). Often times these characters are cloaked to be discovered by the reader and there are many of them.Is this a generic simple usage to summarize what we entertain as our current ultimate concerns? Or is he referring in a way to an actual sentient or super sentient being or force?
I'm about 20% into the book; I am starting to think of these gods as emergent phenomena. That is, they originate from the mind of man but once present, they function as independent entities with a will of their own and powers not present in that from which they emerged. Still like any emergent entity, their continued existence depends upon the continued existence of its substrates. For example, salt can be thought of as an emergent form of sodium and chlorine. Salt has properties that are in no way related to the properties of sodium and chlorine and salt acts in ways independent of co-extant sodium and chlorine and yet if sodium and chlorine cease to exist so does salt.Interbane wrote:Not yet having the book, I'm a little confused. Why is the word 'gods' used? Is this a generic simple usage to summarize what we entertain as our current ultimate concerns? Or is he referring in a way to an actual sentient or super sentient being or force?