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...
Yep. Been looking at some on librivox
ReplyDeleteYou are doing the Lord's Work (not getting any more specific than that).
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily the picture I would've picked, but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.
ReplyDeleteOh god, thank you so much!!
ReplyDeleteI might clean it up and add some things like the fragments and Moldvay's Averoigne sections. One thing I noticed was how I had missed reading a few of these like the End of the Story.
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