› ›
Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it, follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.
Our rules have been updated and given their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!

Made up American Gods Fact

moonwaltz7moonwaltz7 Registered User regular
in The Writer's Block
Does anybody know, or have thoughts on what Neil Gaiman is specifically referencing in this blog post? http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2010/05/one-book-one-twitter-one-wondering.html

The short version of the story is there is something he thinks he completely made up in American Gods, but has since shown up in reference books published after American Gods. He also mentions that the wikipedia page used to talk about how this fact was made up in American Gods, but has since been changed to cite the reference books which present it as true.

moonwaltz7 on
• Agree Awesome

Posts

  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    I think Gaiman basically made up the personality and dualistic nature of the Slavic god that lived with the three sisters. A Slavic god, which, no one really knows anything about and aren't sure if anyone worshiped anyway.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belobog

    • Agree Awesome
  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Man, this is straight out of the Colbert Report.

    Ringo wrote: »
    Well except what see317 said. That guy's always wrong.
    • Agree Awesome
  • RingoRingo Registered User regular
    That's weird and awesome

    ceres wrote: »
    I'm just going to go ahead and lock this thread before I feel any worse about humanity.
    AUGMENTOS - Edcrab's Exigency RPG
    • Agree Awesome
  • DaenrisDaenris Registered User regular
    In his responses to the twitter discussion of his book he says he made up a goddess, so I'm guessing it's not Bielebog.
    How much creative license did you need to take with the myths to get them to fit in AG? sorry for confusion.

    @TrishaCornelius Not much. I didn't need to. I made up a goddess, but that was about it.

    I'd love to know who it was though.

    • Agree Awesome
  • Aidan_Aidan_ Registered User
    Daenris wrote: »
    In his responses to the twitter discussion of his book he says he made up a goddess, so I'm guessing it's not Bielebog.
    How much creative license did you need to take with the myths to get them to fit in AG? sorry for confusion.

    @TrishaCornelius Not much. I didn't need to. I made up a goddess, but that was about it.

    I'd love to know who it was though.

    I think it's the goddess who consumes men via...*ahem*..."congress". Though it's a common theme in many cultures about human intercourse, I don't know that there was ever an actual deity or supernatural being who was supposed to do that.

    Do what now?

    "I aim to misbehave."
    - Capt. Mal Reynolds
    • Agree Awesome
  • geardropsgeardrops Registered User
    He talked about this at an event I went to in Berkeley. Basically, there are originally two sisters, one of the sunrise, and one of sunset. He added one of midnight. It was mistakenly added as being real, and thankfully, was corrected.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorya

    geardrops on
    twitter | site
    • Agree Awesome
Sign In or Register to comment.
› ›