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...
(Enrique Alcatena)
ReplyDeleteIs this his version of Celestials?
ReplyDeleteMichael Moscrip i haven't read the issue but this is what the guy who posted it says
ReplyDelete"Issues 5 and 6 contain a 2-part story by Ian Edinton and Alcatena; a story that is very good, but very unlike anything that Robert Howard would have come up with. Replete with fallen gods, alchemists, zombies, strange science, flying ships and wandering warrior-priestesses, it's way closer to a Michael Moorcock novel than anything else. But hey, let's just enjoy it for what it is. On its own terms, this is a very entertaining story.
The plot revolves around the fall from the sky of a god who's just lost some kind of celestial battle. (Gee, isn't this mag just full of fallen dark gods)? This one could be a Celestial if they had been designed by Philippe Druillet instead of Jack Kirby."