Showing my work (I have intentionally not listed several things as I am holding those cards for the time being). The Hill Cantons cosmology inspiration mix Jack Vance novels (absurdist satire of religious mores) Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and Three Hearts, Bachman's Dragon article (the Weird and its cosmic juxtaposition to human civilization, the waxing/waning of gods being tied to the amount of human worship and the reduction of “Faerie”) Leiber's Lankhmar stories (more satire, petty gods and apotheosis) Early Renaissance Catholicism, Mediterranean hero-cults, Hellenistic and Roman sun-cults, Theosophy, Jewish neoplatinism and mystical traditions, Piper's Lord Kalvan, Early Christian theological disputes (Sun Lord) Hussites, Mormon feminism, William Blake's poetic mythology around the Triple Goddess (Celestial Lady) Slavic pagan mythology (Pahr Old Gods and a number of godlings) Hindu and Native American creation myths (World Turtle) M.A.R Barker's Creat...
Hmm, i do have a fondness for Golden-goat-horned statuettes....
ReplyDeleteYes, i will add that to my trophy room. Noted 1000 of 100,000,000,000 repaid. You are almost paid off.
Chris Kutalik note statuette will now go to trophy room of underground lair. (Whenever I build it).
500gp more repaid.
ReplyDeleteAs to the remaining balance, Lazzaro is consulting with Exautarch Komos about placing the rest of his recent payouts into a high-yield mutual fund to be cashed out in the DISTANT FUTURE (when all the humans are dead). He assures me that this can easily amount to much greater than 100,000,000,000 suns in merely a few centuries.
That is good news indeed.
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