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Your Pet Urban Fantasy Cliche Peeves
LizW65:
The ancient Sumerian pantheon has some very interesting and nasty critters, as do the Mesoamerican mythologies.
Snowleopard:
I keep waiting for Mister (in the Dresden files) to be tied
to Bast/Egyptian gods somehow.
(Though, in all fairness, I think the Norse Goddess Freya had a chariot
pulled by cats. - Just Googled it - two cats pulled her chariot.)
o_O:
--- Quote from: Quantus on May 05, 2013, 06:00:10 PM --- When was the last time you saw one that drew heavily from the Persian pantheon, for example.
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The closest I've got is Robert Silverberg's story of Gilgamesh the King. ?
Snowleopard:
It might be that a lot of writers pick the pantheons they think
their readers are most familiar with.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: o_O on May 05, 2013, 10:12:03 PM ---The closest I've got is Robert Silverberg's story of Gilgamesh the King. ?
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Hadnt heard of it. Any good? Im in need of beach reading for a vacation next week.
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