The Dying Gods
Loading...
Authors
Yates, Julia
Advisor
Murphy Fox
Jeff Morris
Tomas Graman
Jeff Morris
Tomas Graman
Editor
Date of Issue
2006-04-01
Subject Keywords
Publisher
Citation
Series/Report No.
item.page.identifier
Title
The Dying Gods
Other Titles
Type
thesis
Description
Abstract
Abstract: Part One of a fantasy series inspired by Plato, Eric Voegelin, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music, among others. A god is dead, murdered by his fellow gods. Driven by their new-found fear of death, the gods plunge their countries into war. Two young goat herders, Mosy and Nuse, find themselves in the thick of it. As war approaches, the two struggle with each other and with their own problems: Mosy is newly blind, the result of an encounter with a god, while Nuse wrestles with strange dreams and forgotten memories. With their help, Sol, the sun god, must uncover the mystery of the god’s death before heaven and earth are destroyed. For these two mortals sing the songs ofthe Pali, a trickster and a shape-shifter who dies in each of his forms before he is born again. Some say the Pali is false and does not exist outside the souls of his worshipers. Yet the Pali may prove realer than them all.
Sponsors
Degree Awarded
Bachelor's
Semester
Spring
Department
Languages & Literature