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Jun 22, 2024 · The Gods Themselves is a 1972 science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov, and his first original work in the science fiction genre in fifteen years (not counting his 1966 novelization of Fantastic Voyage).
3 days ago · The novel’s title borrows from George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan”: “Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.”. The reading notes will break this phrase into three parts, corresponding to the three sections of the original text. The story is set on 22nd-century Earth, where humans accidentally discover an “electron ...
4 days ago · A scholiast, quoting the fifth-century BC historian Hellanicus, tells us that, in addition to the Hesiodic Cyclopes (whom the scholiast describes as "the gods themselves"), and the Homeric Cyclopes, there was a third group of Cyclopes: the builders of the walls of Mycenae.
2 days ago · Prometheus is best known for defying the Olympian gods by taking fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge and, more generally, civilization. In some versions of the myth, he is also credited with the creation of humanity from clay.
Jun 19, 2024 · The jotun are some of the oldest beings in the Norse cosmos, even older than the gods themselves. According to the Norse creation myth, at the beginning of time, there was a giant void called the Ginnungagap in which nothing existed.
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3 days ago · A deity is typically conceptualized as a supernatural or divine concept, manifesting in ideas and knowledge, in a form that combines excellence in some or all aspects, wrestling with weakness and questions in other aspects, heroic in outlook and actions, yet tied up with emotions and desires.
From that, we can infer that the celts likely had a central pantheon (with tribal variations) of fundamental elemental gods who represented things like earth, sky, sun, moon, sea, fire, death, wild beasts, etc. and that to a degree, they viewed these elements as the gods themselves.
