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Mar. 20th, 2011

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God.

Big god. Little god.

Big gods and little gods. Good and evil gods.

"Hello!"
"Hello!"
"Do you like my prayer?"
"I do not. Good-by!"
"Good-by!"

One little god going in. Three big gods going out.

A cruel god on a basalt ziggurat. A kind god on a granite ziggurat. An emotional god on a sandstone ziggurat.

Some big gods and some little gods going around in processionals. A god out of a processional.

Two big gods in ascent. One little god in decline.

The emotional god is up. The logical god is down. The kind god is in. The cruel god is out.

One god up on a temple. Three gods down in the city.

An emotional god over the ziggurat. A logical god under the ziggurat.

Two gods in a temple on a plateau in the city. A god over the city. A god under the city.

"Hello again."
"Hello."
"Do you like my prayer?"
"I do not like it. Good-by again."
"Good-by."

The gods are all going around and around and around. Go around again!

The sun is up. The sun is Logic. The logical sun is over the temple. It is enlightened out here in the sun. It is not enlightened here under the temple.

Now it is night. Three gods at an orgy on a plateau at night.

Gods at peace. Peace, gods, peace! Gods at war. War, gods, war!

"Hello again."
"Hello."
"Do you like my prayer?"
"I do not like that prayer. Good-by again."
"Good-by."

Gods in processionals again. Going away. Going away fast.

Look at those gods go. Go, gods, go!

Stop, gods. Stop! The ritual is halted now.

Go, gods. Go! The ritual is proceeding now.

Two gods at war. At war up on top. Go down, gods. Do not war up there. Go down.

Now it is night. Night is not a time for war. It is time for sleep. The gods go to sleep. They will sleep all night.

Now it is day. The sun is up. Now is the time for all gods to get up. Get up! It is day. Time to get going. Go, gods. Go!

There they go. Look at those gods go! Why are they going fast in those processionals? What are they going to do? Where are those gods going?

Look where they are going. They are all going to that big ziggurat over there.

Now the processionals stop. Now all the gods get out. And now look where those gods are going! To the ziggurat! To the ziggurat!

Up the ziggurat! Up the ziggurat! Up they go to the top of the ziggurat. Why? Will they have peace there? Will they have war there? What is up there on top of that ziggurat?

A god orgy! A big god orgy! Big gods, little gods, cruel gods, kind gods, logical gods, emotional gods, good gods, and evil gods are all at a god orgy! What a god orgy!

"Hello again. And now do you like my prayer?"
"I do. What a prayer! I like it! I like that orgy prayer!"
"Good-by! Good-by!"

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For consideration: GO!

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From:netdef
Date:March 20th, 2011 08:02 pm (UTC)
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Thinking you would like James Lovegrove's Pantheon series . . .

The Age of Ra
The Age of Zeus
The Age of Odin

I personally enjoyed Age of Ra and Odin the most, although Zeus was good too.
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From:hwrnmnbsol
Date:March 20th, 2011 08:59 pm (UTC)
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Looking forward to the author's other work, Are You My Creator?
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From:mister_borogove
Date:March 21st, 2011 02:18 am (UTC)
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Heather Has Two Religions.
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From:mr_cellaneous
Date:March 20th, 2011 09:21 pm (UTC)
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This. is. awesome.

It really, really needs to be illustrated. Perhaps in the style of Sita Sings the Blues.
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From:crisper
Date:March 20th, 2011 10:02 pm (UTC)
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If I could draw like P.D. Eastman, I totally would.
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From:topteddy
Date:March 21st, 2011 01:22 am (UTC)
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awesome, thank you
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From:kithrup
Date:March 21st, 2011 03:03 am (UTC)
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This made absolutely no sense to me until Evan said it was based on Go, Dog. Go!... which I had never heard of.

The Wikipedia summary caused it to make much more sense.

You gotta know someone who could illustrate or animate it.
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From:mmcirvin
Date:March 21st, 2011 04:43 am (UTC)
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Did you write that from memory?
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From:crisper
Date:March 21st, 2011 04:49 am (UTC)
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Almost. Not quite. Sequence, and some of the exact phrasing of the longer pages at the end, required checking copy at hand.
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