Hey Frank! Do you know of any cool gods or idols to worship? Anything good you recommend?
If I did, that would be a terrible idea.
Anyway, the one deity I’ve always had in mind as far as fiction is concerned is “the god who invented fiction.” That is, a god who created stories for humans, and who we would not have without that gift. The god that gave rise to the myth of Prometheus stealing fire from the gods. The god of the Epic of Gilgamesh, who created the first human out of clay. The god whose name was lost in the mist of history, the storyteller, and in some ways he is our only hope.
I want to write stories about him and his world. If there is a single god worthy of worship among the gods, it’s him.
Not that I don’t worship other gods too – there are many, and I can’t imagine not being surrounded by them – but for me he’s special. He may be special for many. And he may not be even for everyone.
a god who gave humans the gift of storytelling and therefore invented himself by giving a human a story to tell about how they got the gift of storytelling from him is an incredibly awesome idea, frank. what do you think the world was like before humans had the ability to tell stories? could such a thing ever actually be known, if no one could tell a story about it?
I imagine that before the invention of language and storytelling in general, the world may have consisted of very large, very empty spaces with lots of different kinds of stuff – sort of like the sort of place that would be the prehistory of the universe according to physics textbooks – where stuff moved around on its own and created itself via natural processes and there were no people, just the stuff.
At some point people did appear, of course, along with a lot of other things, and stuff was shaped by other humans, but they had a very restricted role in shaping the material environment – creating other humans but not much else.
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