[UA] God Gauge

[Luke Pendo]

Any plans to include that most modern of myth cycles, urban legends?


Sure, they aren't quite Gods, neither in the established identity sense of
Odin and Zeus and Krishna, nor are they Gods in the unspoken sense of Media
and Money, like Chris and Neil Gaiman had it.

They're more those folktales and folk creatures - those things you know are
out there, but which you've never seen first hand. At least, not yet.

*The Hook Handed Killer has started to wane since the years of 1950.
Psychosexual fears have changed, and the Hook Handed Killer is starting to
wonder if he should change as well.


*The Phantom Hitchhiker is still stuck, following those highway ley lines.
Maybe she was a real person at some time. Maybe she had a name, an identity
that didn't shift every time she got into that car, which car, every car.
Maybe once she had a tombstone that was her own, and wasn't given to her
because _everyone_ knows that she's got to have a tombstone!

Maybe some day people will forget. And then she can go home.


Not sure if these were the ideas and themes you were quite going for. Just
something off the top of my head.

One final note - the urban myths are self-cleaning. They're real, they
happen, but somehow after the fact, everything gets smoothed away. Take a
picture of an exploding cactus? Nope. Once you make it back to the real
world, it gets smoothed out, blurry and indistinct.

Why? Well, as much as people know these things exist... they also know they
can't possibly exist. All those smart people and debunkers can't find any
proof, so the proof must not exist.

-Luke

On 2/28/07, Simon RJB <psi.breaker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Cool. Don't worry about it being particularly based on
> western world mythologies - it concerned me for a
> while when I first started working the idea up, but I
> figure that with the setting for the most part being
> Europe and America it keeps the emphasis just about
> right.
>
> Loki is quite possibly going to be a central character
> - whilst not a god proper according to myth, he is a
> god through association (and, well, regarded as such
> by any that choose to follow him).
>
>
> --- Peter Kisner <kisnerp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 1.  The God of Abraham.
> > 2.  Zeus/Jupiter
> > 3.  Thor
> > 4.  Athena
> > 5.  Neptune
> > 6.  Apollo
> > 7.  Odin
> > 8.  Loki (though arguably not a god)
> > 9.  Osiris
> > 10.  Shiva
> >
> > Runners up (in no particular order):
> > Ra
> > Ba'al
> > Ashtartes
> > Bacchus/Dionysis
> > Set
> > Isis
> > Bast
> > Thoth
> > Aphrodite/Venus
> > Ares/Mars
> > Mithras
> > Frig
> > Frey
> > Kali
> > Vishnu
> > Brahma
> > Buddha (in some interpretations)
> > Shamash
> > Ahura Mazda/Angra Mainyu
> > Indra
> > "The Great Spirit"
> > Quetzalcoatl
> > Wakan Tanka
> > The Jade Emperor
> >
> > Sadly I'm not well versed in specific eastern gods
> > so well, so I think
> > that's about all that come immediately to my mind.
> >
> > On 2/28/07, Simon RJB <psi.breaker at yahoo.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> > > I'm working on a story backdrop that is based on
> > human
> > > belief and mythology. So i thought I'd tap into
> > the
> > > collective subconsious to see what immediately
> > springs
> > > to mind.
> > >
> > > If I were to say the word 'GODS', which Gods (from
> > > modern day or ancient mythology) would be top-most
> > in
> > > your mind? Feel free to add your favourite gods to
> > the
> > > list, even gods or 'icons' from more recent
> > fiction,
> > > but write a list of the TOP 10 that spring to
> > mind, in
> > > order that they come to you.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > >
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