Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Twilight

We posted once yesterday but on another blog, here. The Jade Emperor is the supreme deity in the Taoist pantheon.

In Poul Anderson's Vault Of The Ages, four of the twenty chapter headings refer to gods:

10 Vengeance of the Gods
11 The Gods Are Angry
16 Defiance of the Gods
20 Twilight of the Gods

In addition, Chapter 19 is entitled "The Last Battle," an apocalyptic phrase. We do not expect literal gods to come on-stage but will there be a change in human attitudes to these "...great shadowy powers..."? I think that Wagner's "Twilight of the Gods" means the beginning of an Age of Men, as Valhalla burns in the background.

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