Oooooooh. Any hint on what sourcebooks you guys might be using? Other than Dante and Frazier maybe? Just curious....
Aside from the Turner book that The Hook just cited, there aren't that many sourcebooks per se; the initial mythology came largely from what I remembered of Norse and Egyptian myth (especially the Osiris legend and the Egyptian creation myth), and then we kind of went on this scavenger hunt to find more stuff we could tie into it. You know, a bit of Sumerian myth, some Aztec lore... not too much from the Greek or Biblical traditions, though, because that stuff's just too familiar.
And now, a couple of more frivolous citations. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash has some nice stuff on Sumerian mythology and the etymology of the word "scythe," although in all honesty it's almost embarrasing to go back and read that cyberpunk stuff now that we're actually living in the future. Oh, and a shoutout to my homie Umberto Eco. Where would we be without Foucalt's Pendulum?
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Date: 2004-04-30 12:08 am (UTC)Aside from the Turner book that The Hook just cited, there aren't that many sourcebooks per se; the initial mythology came largely from what I remembered of Norse and Egyptian myth (especially the Osiris legend and the Egyptian creation myth), and then we kind of went on this scavenger hunt to find more stuff we could tie into it. You know, a bit of Sumerian myth, some Aztec lore... not too much from the Greek or Biblical traditions, though, because that stuff's just too familiar.
And now, a couple of more frivolous citations. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash has some nice stuff on Sumerian mythology and the etymology of the word "scythe," although in all honesty it's almost embarrasing to go back and read that cyberpunk stuff now that we're actually living in the future. Oh, and a shoutout to my homie Umberto Eco. Where would we be without Foucalt's Pendulum?