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 | | The ruler of Mitnal is the god Hunhau. | | | Another that he was the son of the sun god and of Coatlicue, one of the five goddesses of the moon. | | | One legend says he was the god of creation, who with Tezcatlipoca, pulled the earth goddess, Coatlicue, down from the heavens, and in the form of great serpents, ripped her into two pieces to form the earth and sky. |
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| | American Gods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | American Gods is a novel by Neil Gaiman. | | | only the gods are real, a listing of all the gods and mythical beings featured in American Gods | | | So he abandoned the idea, but later used the character Wednesday and the day of meeting when writing American Gods. |
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| | Gaiman, American Gods (000xxxx0) |
| | This is a story of imports and immigrants, of peoples and their gods, of adaptation of gods to new circumstances. | | | This is the one significant weakness of American Gods. | | | And that is why the humorous aspects of American Gods work: the voice remains consistent throughout, allowing the reader to encounter events without the dubious equivalent of creepy background music just before the slasher appears in splatterpunk movies (or books, for that matter). |
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| | Except for Hunab Ku, all the other gods are the progeny of Ix Chel an Itzamna. | | | The great god Viracocha in human form, traveling in disguise as an old man with a staff, preaching virtue to the people, working miracles, sleeping in the fields with nothing but his tunic for cover. | | | Only Auchimalgen cares anything for the human race, all the rest of the gods being utterly malevolent. |
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http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/Ancient_religions/South_america/south_american_gods.htm
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| | Neil Gaiman, American Gods |
| | American Gods is an epic tale, and its protagonist, Shadow, is a modern-day questing hero. | | | American Gods is part road-trip buddy film -- every bit as quirky, every bit as visual -- as Shadow and the mysterious Mr. | | | They are confronted and confounded by their would-be successors, the new gods of today's society: television, the media, the Internet. |
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| | Review American Gods by Neil Gaiman |
| | American Gods is not just a travelogue, however; it has a story to tell. | | | The central story of American Gods involves Shadow and the conflict between the old gods and the new gods, but this is not the only story it tells. | | | We learn that he is the Norse god Odin and possesses unearthly abilities. |
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| | only the gods are real |
| | Damballa is a snake-god, and the god of fertility. | | | Loki was responsible for the death of Balder, the god of light. | | | Horus the Elder is most similar to the Horus described in American Gods, he was the ancient creator god as a falcon, and was also a warrior god. |
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| | Neil Gaiman: American Gods |
| | American Gods is a novel of intricate ideas which are presented smoothly and capably. | | | American Gods may be one of the best and most original fantasy novels to be published in years. | | | It quickly becomes apparent that Wednesday is, in reality, the Norse god Odin, who is recruiting the other gods whose believers have settled across the United States at one time or another to go to war against the up-and-coming gods who are vying for the minds of the citizenry. |
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| | Steven Wu's Book Reviews: American Gods (Neil Gaiman) |
| | While Gaiman's incarnations of old gods are clever, even with their cutsey names, the new gods are a little silly. | | | But not all gods will disappear without a fight, and so in American Gods we witness the formation of the old gods, from every country, in a battle against the new gods of the media, shopping centers, and technology. | | | American Gods is easy to read and has one of the more creative premises I have ever encountered. |
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http://www.scwu.com/bookreviews/h/GaimanNeilAmericanGods.shtml
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| | Science Fiction Book Reviews |
| | American Gods is nothing short of an odyssey; Shadow's journey is an epic one. | | | American Gods is an ambitious work, and Gaiman's obviously challenged himself in a number of ways in this, his most recent novel. | | | The voices of these characters and stories, these humans and gods, tall tales and myths, are as engrossing as they are variegated. |
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| | Bureau 42 Book Review - "American Gods" |
| | American Gods, a brilliant, bursting-at-the-bindings novel follows an ex-con named Shadow, the Teutonic god Odin (reduced to the status of travelling grifter), and Shadow's dead wife on a road trip through America's decaying, sacred places: the classic roadside attractions. | | | American Gods, however, represents the best and most original handling of these concepts in a very long time. | | | Enjoyable as American Gods is, it might have worked better as a collection of short stories. |
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| | Review of Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" |
| | American Gods was released on Tuesday, June 19, 2001 and is NOW AVAILABLE. | | | New gods are constantly replacing the older ones. | | | I was very fortunate to receive an advance copy of Neil Gaiman's new novel, American Gods, and I have decided to post a small review of it on the Dent. |
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| | Colin Gregory Palmer - Book Review - American Gods - By Neil Gaiman |
| | American Gods is the story of a man nicknamed Shadow, who upon his release from prison finds that he has lost his old life. | | | Before I picked up American Gods, I was already familiar with Neil Gaiman as a comic book author. | | | Because of this experience, I didn't have high expectations for American Gods. |
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http://www.colingregorypalmer.net/books/reviews/gaiman-american-gods.html
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| | Neil Gaiman: American Gods - an infinity plus review |
| | American Gods is a gleefully sideways epic of apocalypse and redemption that is affectionately reminiscent of Gaiman's magnum opus Sandman (Shadow's dreams are a significant thread throughout Gods) and at the same time something entirely new. | | | American Gods has its flaws -- there are a fair few chunks of mechanical get-hero-from-A-to-B stuff, some lazy repetition of words within sentences, and Gaiman lets himself play authorial god a tad too often for it just to be a clever riff on his themes. | | | Most of all, though, it's a book about gods, specifically American gods, and exactly what it means when gods become American -- not just what it means for them, and for America, but for all of us, because (famously) we're all Americans now. |
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| | Powells.com From the Author - Neil Gaiman |
| | American Gods began long before I knew I was going to be writing a novel called American Gods. | | | Tentatively, I suggested American Gods as a working title for it. | | | There are maybe half a dozen of them scattered through the book, and all (but one) of them are most definitely female in my head (even the one about the Omani trinket salesman and the taxi driver). |
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| | American Gods |
| | But in none of these are the gods made human as they are in American Gods; if anything the common theme in Zelazny's earlier work is about how humans can become gods, or as near as makes no difference. | | | ariel_uk that Small Gods and American Gods perhaps shared a common origin in "some late night conversation about the nature of deity" between the authors, perhaps when they were collaborating on Good Omens in 1990 or thereabouts. | | | The third of the plot strands in American Gods is the story of Laura. |
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - American Gods - Neil Gaiman - Mass Market Paperback |
| | As unsettling as it is exhilarating, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. | | | American Gods tells the story of that war, and of the hidden personal agendas that lie beneath it. | | | American Gods is like a fast run downhill through a maze — both exhilarating and twisted. |
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| | Dreaming American Gods: an Interview With Neil Gaiman - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e |
| | I ran across them while I was beginning the book, and I loved the idea of Czernobog the black god and his brother Bielebog the white god, and the Zorya, these sisters of the dawn--the morning star, the evening star, and the mysterious midnight sister. | | | RT: Representative of the mix of cultures making up America, American Gods tells the many tales of immigrants who came to this country and brought with them their gods. | | | An American copyeditor went through the book, and pulled words that were invisible to me, like "hessian" and "burlap." Where I described Johnny Appleseed as picking up a hessian sack, they said no, it has to be burlap. |
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| | Neil Gaiman, American Gods |
| | America is not a good place for gods. | | | We see how a god can be created, and how a god can be forgotten and destroyed. | | | Gods and demigods and devils and creatures of myth, struggling to hang on to what power they still have. |
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| | Article: Divining Neil Gaiman: An Exegesis of American Gods, by Bryan A. Hollerbach |
| | (American Gods, in all likelihood, will give birth to more than one thesis in comparative mythology.) Those confreres range from the more-or-less familiar, such as the Hindu goddess Kali, to the puckishly ineffable, like what appears to be the god of elision, encountered in that modern mecca to ineffability, Las Vegas. | | | Moreover, Shadow's new employer is plotting a divine duel to the death, a celestial showdown. | | | Divining Neil Gaiman: An Exegesis of American Gods |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: American Gods: Books |
| | American Gods is possibly one of the greatest books ever written. | | | American Gods is a big book in more ways than one; not only is it over six hundred pages long, but it deals with big ideas. | | | The old European gods are a favourite of Gaiman's, and their appearance here is unsettling and yet fantastically described. |
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| | Anansi Boys, American Gods by Neil Gaiman - read review |
| | Odin, the central god in American Gods, is the god of war and death; naturally that book is darker, though in my opinion, entirely readable, as Odin is also the god of poetry and wisdom. | | | Anansi Boys is a much lighter read than American Gods, though that might have more to do with which god is at the center of each story. | | | This story is about his boys, but like all stories it is still Anansi's, and like many of his tales, Tiger is involved. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: American Gods: Books |
| | American Gods is likewise a departure from the traditional, with ancient gods rising to confront the new American god - Technology. | | | Within just a few pages of Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, he commandingly reveals that he is at his considerable best with this disturbing and dark journey into the hidden soul of America. | | | The Greek and Roman pantheons are ignored, perhaps because their adherents were suborned by the Eastern Mediterranean Mob, J.C. and The Boys. |
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| | American Gods |
| | American Gods is set in what we like to think of as "the real world". | | | Gaiman has touched upon the concept of old gods fading away as belief faded in the comic book series The Sandman (which, incidentally, I recommend to anyone-it definitely isn't a kid's series); here, he takes it to a new level, introducing new gods that seem to fit the commercialism of today's society. | | | Most of the characters in the book interact with him, including his wife (yes, I know she died; it didn't stop her much), Wednesday, and other gods of both camps (I especially loved his game of checkers with one. |
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| | The Mumpsimus |
| | One of the reasons I chose American Gods was because it is big, and I knew that few of my students would ever have read a book of more than 200 pages. | | | I hoped that they would get caught up in the story of American Gods enough to find that reading it was enjoyable, and so they would reach the end without too much pain and suffering, and then could look back with a great sense of accomplishment. | | | By the way, I will be teaching english, so who knows, maybe someday I'll be able to teach my students "American Gods" too. |
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: American Gods |
| | American Gods is a dark, mesmerising adventure into the innermost reaches of the human heart and mind. | | | Shadow, betrayed and abandoned by his own personal god, is the perfect liaison in the showdown that is coming. | | | Dark though the subject matter may be, American Gods is easily Gaiman's most amusing and entertaining work since Good Omens, his brilliant collaboration with Terry Pratchett. |
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| | Neil Gaiman's AMERICAN GODS: review |
| | Here, he tells the story of the old gods of myth and folklore struggling for existence as they war with America's new gods - portrayed as such things as television, the internet, technology, and money. | | | Throughout the novel, as his protagonist, Shadow assists one of these old god's, who he calls Wednesday, Gaiman shows us countless tourist sites and roadside attractions all across the U. that I for one never knew existed, and gives them the spin that only he can. | | | Sometimes when I read a book, I find myself comparing it to another of a similar style or nature. |
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http://www.feoamante.com/Stories/Reviews/ABC/american_gods.html
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| | American Gods |
| | These new gods are not particularly fond of the old ones either. | | | This is, of course, necessary if you’re going to make a book about a war between gods in modern America work. | | | With Stardust and Neverwhere Neil Gaiman got me hooked, so I had high expectations for American Gods. |
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| | Menomenah... doot doo de do do! MetaFilter |
| | American Gods was too over the top for me. Every five pages some amazing and fantastic supernatural event happened, so that by the end the amazing and fantastic supernatural events ran out of steam and the wonder of it was gone. | | | I really liked American Gods, but the whole time I was wondering why it seemed like no gods emmigrated north of the 49th parallel. | | | American Gods was just OK in my opinion. |
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| | .americanGODS. |
| | only the gods are real :: an American Gods fansite containing a rather nice who's who of the characters | | | What I love about Neil Gaiman's stories is that you always feel you are being imparted with some long-forgotten, secret knowledge, and that even the most ordinary places and events are infused with a sense of the magical; with American Gods he achieves this to the nth degree. | | | Welcome to the fanlisting for Neil Gaiman's fabulous novel American Gods. |
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| | Amazon.com: American Gods: Books: Neil Gaiman |
| | In summary, I think that American Gods was a far stronger effort than the last book of his I read, Stardust, but not as good as Neverwhere, or Sandman. | | | American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. | | | I was especially anxious to read American Gods because a good portion of the story takes place in my home state, Wisconsin (home of snow, ice and Culver's custard.) I was not, generally speaking, disapppointed. |
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| | August Book: American Gods - PWYRI - Movie Discussion Forum & Message Board |
| | American Gods was my first endeavor into the writing of Neil Gaiman. | | | Suprised Gaiman didn't introduce the concept of monotheism as the reason why these old gods kind of died out, because that was the more realistic reason. | | | The only reason I picked American Gods as my first Gaiman read was because of the kick ass cover. |
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| | CNN.com - Neil Gaiman on writing and 'American Gods' - July 30, 2001 |
| | In "American Gods," I'm very fond of Shadow, because despite being the author, I was never sure that I understood him -- which is a nice place for an author to be. | | | I wanted characters, gods, who work both in a mythic context as themselves, and gods who would work as fictional characters and fill the kind of roles that I needed for them. | | | CNN: Despite "American Gods" and other text novels, you are still probably best known for your 10-year-old graphic work. |
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| | Evil Avatar - American Gods |
| | His name means "unseen" in Greek, and historically he was the god of wealth and riches (which, at the time, all originated from underground; i.e., the underworld). | | | Noone mortal can keep the forgettable god fixed in their minds- nothing from him, of him, or about him. | | | So in a way, he was invisible AND unspeakable, much like the forgotten god in "American Gods". |
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| | only the gods are real |
| | I really liked American Gods (as I do all of Neil's works) so I decided to do a little bit of research, and I was just amazed by how much more interesting the book was when I realized just how on the mark he was with his mythology. | | | It is not meant to give every possible detail about all the gods. | | | If you're here, you've probably read American Gods, and realize just what a large role mythology plays in the story. |
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| | CNN.com - The selling of Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' - June 26, 2001 |
| | Clearly his interest is in pulling the curtain away from some "American Gods." What he has to say about them lies way down the lightning-fried road of the book's cover artwork. | | | We can offer you a few lines about "American Gods" to get you started, with no reference to "The Bonfire of the Vanities." The book opens with the impending release from prison of a man named Shadow. | | | More than five times in 20 minutes of conversation, she stresses that the "real story," as she puts it, is Neil Gaiman and his new novel, "American Gods." |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/readingup/06/26/american.gods
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| | SF REVIEWS.NET: American Gods / Neil Gaiman |
| | Indeed, Gaiman's entire premise deals with European gods — and what is a god but a superhero, or supervillian, after all? | | | I enjoyed reading American Gods, make no mistake — but to be honest, this compellingly grim modern fantasy is good but not great. | | | But the new gods have formidable fighters on their own side, employing comical men-in-black type thugs to menace Shadow at every turn. |
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| | American Gods - Wikiquote |
| | American Gods (2001) is a novel by Neil Gaiman. | | | I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know I'm alive. | | | "This is a bad land for gods," said Shadow. |
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| | American Gods: Monarch of the Glen Review - Silver Bullet Comics |
| | What’s better, in American Gods and now “Monarch of the Glen,” Gaiman matches Shadow’s reserved mood in the descriptive passages, as well, with short sharp sentences inching the reader into the world of the story. | | | We’ve got Norse gods, creatures of the woods, and a fantastic cameo by the enigmatic Wednesday. | | | After his role in the war between old gods and new, Shadow has decided to take an extended vacation. |
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| | Reflective Surface / American Gods |
| | A couple weeks ago, I finished reading his American Gods, a fascinating story of myth and fantasy that kept spellbound from the first page to the last one. | | | When I decided to buy another of his books, I had to choose between Neverwhere and American Gods. | | | To lover of mythology, the book is a must. |
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| | : RevolutionSF - American Gods : Review |
| | Gaiman continues to evolve his sense of razor-sharp plotting and pacing with American Gods, and his exploration of legends and myths with it. | | | While most of the dialogue is Gaiman's familiar, crisp conversation, particularly that of the gods that he writes, there is inconsistency with Shadow, the main character. | | | Mostly I think he is both, but not necessarily at the extremes that Gaiman writes him in. |
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| | Salon.com Books "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman |
| | Speaking of Greeks, their gods never make an appearance here, though their presence, you'd think, wouldn't be any less plausible than that of Anubis and Thoth. | | | But the slightly off skew of its take on the U.S. doesn't really matter much, for "American Gods" is a crackerjack suspense yarn with an ending that both surprises and makes perfect sense, as well as many passages of heady, imagistic writing. | | | If you have a basic knowledge of mythology (or, for that matter, etymology, or, really, if you just have a good dictionary) and a vague idea of what "American Gods" is about, you can figure out this fellow's real identity pretty easily. |
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| | TANGMONKEY.COM [ American Gods ] |
| | If I had read an annotated version of American Gods I'm sure I would have learned a lot of interesting facts about mythology and religion, and if you're interested in such things this book is worth reading. | | | Meanwhile new gods are rising: gods of the Internet and of Media and of Television. | | | We're introduced to a lot of characters along the way, most of whom have no significance whatsoever to the story. |
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| | American Gods - The CHUD.COM Message Boards |
| | i just hope american gods has cowboys in it, too. | | | I'm writing a novel called American Gods right now. | | | "I'm doing a lot of research on EVERY type of folklore for American Gods. |
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| | village voice > news > American Gods by R.C. Baker |
| | I drew him large and awesome." The humanist spark that drove all of Kirby's work is echoed in Galactus's own dialogue: "I perceive the glint of glory within the race of man!. | | | As with Adams's work, it is the stories Ross chooses to illustrate that make his work important. | | | In 1966 he upped the ante with Galactus, whom he called a "true god. |
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| | Native American Gods |
| | After the gods had raised dry land from the watery chaos, Tirawa Atius told Sun and Moon to make love, and they gave birth to a son. | | | After making the moon and the sun, Thoume' sent the trickster god Kutnahin to teach medicine and food preparation to men. | | | Shakura the Sun was assigned to provide light and heat, Pah the Moon was assigned the night, and Tirwara-Atius placed the Evening Star, the Mother of All Things in the west. |
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