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...
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ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Peter!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday to you. You live in a zoo.
ReplyDeleteAnd lo, on this day the Sun did rise in THE SAME PLACE as when Peter Robbins came among us!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Peter!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks all!
ReplyDeleteHappy belated birthday, whippersnapper.
ReplyDeleteScott Moberly Only the same alien run zoo we all live in----but perhaps I've said too much. Peter will no doubt tell his alien masters.
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