Dead Gods
I'm trying to determine exactly which angle to portray the dead gods from. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
posted by Keith Weber at 4:10 AM
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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3 Comments:
If you're looking at any of Gaiman's work, you can take in how it makes them more human. American Gods, for example, points out how hard it is for them to kill, but also how America (and the disintegration of many polytheist faiths) confluence to make their lives more mundane yet also much more fragile.
They are not human, but they are flawed, rounded, three-dimensional human beings, which is something you can pull even from religious texts like The Bible. In some ways, ,or at least according to Gaiman, their existence is even more fragile and ultimately degrading than our own. There is cost to having all that power, even if, even in death, there is a way back.
So maybe think of them as humans plus one?
I'm sure you've looked at Boatman's Holiday. That is one of my favorite stories that we have read thus far. It doesn't give much as to the exsistance of Gods, but it does clearly show how one died. It seems wether or not Gods truely exsist, what good are they if they aren't believed in? Belief is their heartbeat. Where as with mortals no one has to know that you are alive, but that doesn't make you dead, does it? Seems to me Gods are much more fragile than mortals.
Keith, could you be more specific about what you're asking?
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