Talk:The gods - Revision history

Old Dickens: Old Dickens moved page Talk:The gods on Wheels! to Talk:The gods over a redirect without leaving a redirect: revert

2021-10-20T16:01:04Z

Old Dickens moved page Talk:The gods on Wheels! to Talk:The gods over a redirect without leaving a redirect: revert

← Older revision	Revision as of 16:01, 20 October 2021
(No difference)

U mad bro: U mad bro moved page Talk:The gods to Talk:The gods on Wheels!

2021-10-20T13:40:05Z

U mad bro moved page Talk:The gods to Talk:The gods on Wheels!

← Older revision	Revision as of 13:40, 20 October 2021
(No difference)

Old Dickens: god of football?

2018-07-08T04:24:51Z

god of football?

← Older revision		Revision as of 04:24, 8 July 2018
Line 69:		Line 69:

	== Interesting association ==		== Interesting association ==
			In {{SOD4}}, which deals with religion and human perceptions therefrom, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart introduce the musings of Roundworld comedian Ricky Gervaise, who illustrates the idea that atheism is relative by saying there are 2,780 counted gods on Earth. If a committed Christian, or indeed Muslim, says to Gervase that he only beleives in ''one'' God, the response is "Which one?" followed by Gervaise rattling off a list. The punchline is "Well, I believe in one less God than you do, in that case. You're practically an atheist!" But so near to the 3,000 ballpark figure quoted by Terry. [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 00:43, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

	~~In {{SOD4}}, which deals with religion and human perceptions therefrom, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart introduce~~ the ~~musings~~ of ~~Roundworld comedian Ricky Gervaise, who illustrates the idea that atheism is relative by saying there are 2,780 counted gods on Earth~~. ~~If a committed Christian, or indeed Muslim, says to Gervase that he only beleives in ''one'' God,~~ the ~~response is "Which one?" followed by Gervaise rattling off a list. The punchline is "Well, I believe in one less God than you do, in that case. You're practically an atheist~~!" ~~But so near to the 3,000 ballpark figure quoted by Terry~~. [[User:~~AgProv~~\|~~AgProv~~]] ([[User talk:~~AgProv~~\|talk]]) 00:43, ~~10 January 2017~~ (UTC)		==Football==
			We thought [[Pedestriana]] was the goddess of football. ("Be the ball!" was from another movie.) --[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 04:24, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

AgProv: /* Interesting association */ new section

2017-01-10T00:43:46Z

Interesting association: new section

← Older revision		Revision as of 00:43, 10 January 2017
Line 67:		Line 67:
	Hex probably runs a version of this: http://www.godchecker.com/		Hex probably runs a version of this: http://www.godchecker.com/
	:--[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 22:31, 8 January 2016 (UTC)		:--[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 22:31, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

			== Interesting association ==

			In {{SOD4}}, which deals with religion and human perceptions therefrom, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart introduce the musings of Roundworld comedian Ricky Gervaise, who illustrates the idea that atheism is relative by saying there are 2,780 counted gods on Earth. If a committed Christian, or indeed Muslim, says to Gervase that he only beleives in ''one'' God, the response is "Which one?" followed by Gervaise rattling off a list. The punchline is "Well, I believe in one less God than you do, in that case. You're practically an atheist!" But so near to the 3,000 ballpark figure quoted by Terry. [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 00:43, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Old Dickens: Ego Video Liber Deorum

2016-01-08T22:31:14Z

Ego Video Liber Deorum

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:31, 8 January 2016
Line 63:		Line 63:
	::I've made another attempt, using the larger font, extra spacing, and fewer bullets... [[User:TC01\|TC01]] 00:10, 2 December 2009 (UTC)		::I've made another attempt, using the larger font, extra spacing, and fewer bullets... [[User:TC01\|TC01]] 00:10, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
	:::Like it, TC, like it. There's about another fifty pages like this, so if you'd like to go searching for them and sort them all out with the same formatting we'd all be most grateful! No? Well, worth a try...--[[User:Knmatt\|Knmatt]] 11:18, 2 December 2009 (UTC)		:::Like it, TC, like it. There's about another fifty pages like this, so if you'd like to go searching for them and sort them all out with the same formatting we'd all be most grateful! No? Well, worth a try...--[[User:Knmatt\|Knmatt]] 11:18, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

			==A complete Roundworld guide==
			Hex probably runs a version of this: http://www.godchecker.com/
			:--[[User:Old Dickens\|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens\|talk]]) 22:31, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Confusion: Fate vs destiny

2014-03-09T05:52:33Z

Fate vs destiny

← Older revision		Revision as of 05:52, 9 March 2014
Line 8:		Line 8:

	--[[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] 16:00, 24 December 2007 (CET)		--[[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] 16:00, 24 December 2007 (CET)

			Isn't is fate who always wins, not destiny. --[[User:Confusion\|Confusion]] ([[User talk:Confusion\|talk]]) 05:52, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

	== The God who was offered to the Librarian, with potentially disastrous consequences ==		== The God who was offered to the Librarian, with potentially disastrous consequences ==

Osiris: 1 revision: Talk Namespace

2012-12-26T03:17:12Z

1 revision: Talk Namespace

New page

Would this work better as a category that's a subcategory of [[:Category: Supernatural entities]]? [[User:Kellyterryjones|Kellyterryjones]] 20:57, 22 December 2007 (CET)

:It probably would. (likewise for [[Demons]]). --[[User:Sanity|Sanity]] 13:30, 23 December 2007 (CET)

Are we sure Resonata, Bissonomy and especially Epidity are in Dunmanifestin? They don't sound like first-row deities. (Sure, Nuggan doesn't either, but he did command a whole country.) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 15:49, 24 December 2007 (CET)

According to the glimpse we get into Chaffinch's seminal work in {{W}}, Bissonomy certainly ain't - she was turned into a shower of oysters after a fight, current location unknown, and has since been downgraded to a Virtue. (Who is to know the ways of gods, who we are assured move in mysterious ways...). So you're right, if she's in the wrong section I'll move her. But Epidity, God of Potatoes... remember the potato cult of which mr Pin was a believer, and which appears to be gaining ground in Ankh-Morpork? (mentioned in {{MM}}). I'd leave him be?

--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 16:00, 24 December 2007 (CET)

== The God who was offered to the Librarian, with potentially disastrous consequences ==

OK... Hanuman is actually the Hindu monkey-god.

Sun-wukong is the Chinese equivalent, or one of them. In Japan he becomes Sungoku. Thought by scholars to be ultimately reflections of the Hindu God, according to Wiki.

However, the Librarian was not amused that the presumption was made that this was his God...--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 22:40, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

:Wonderful scholarship which could be included in a [[Monkey-god]] article, but it didn't fit on a single line. (Originally I was only offended by the layout; then It struck me that Hanuman was Indian as well.) --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 00:14, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
:Son Goku is the star of a modern Japanese animation called ''Dragon Ball'' and a multimedia ''Saiyuki'' character. Sun Wukong seems to have travelled from China to India and taken the form of Hanuman as he was wont to do. Definite confusion there. The Japanese remain divided between Shinto and Buddhism, neither of which they observe very closely and neither of which includes animal gods. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 01:02, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

==Formatting==

Yeah, thaks TC01. Glad I made the effort to make it easier to read yesterday.--[[User:Knmatt|Knmatt]] 18:00, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

:If you want to space it out a bit more, we could use level 3 headings instead of level 2 headings, as I've done below, or some of the spaces could be put back in as long as they don't cause empty bullet points to appear. [[User:TC01|TC01]] 18:21, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

::That's an awful lot better, but I balked at it because there are so many other pages where this would be necessary if we decided to go for a generic format. I just thought an extra space would make it easier on the eye (and on my brain). Didn't I get rid of all the extra bullets? I thought I'd been pretty meticulous...--[[User:Knmatt|Knmatt]] 18:25, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

:::I was still seeing some between the headings ("God of Dunmanifesten", "Other Gods of the Main Continent") and the lists under those headings. Like this:

*Title

**Stuff
**More stuff

:::Do you see the empty bullet point? Anyway, for now, I'll put the extra spaces that definitely don't create empty bullets back in. [[User:TC01|TC01]] 19:26, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

===Gods of [[Dunmanifestin]]===

*[[Bibulous]], god of wine and things on sticks. Resembles John Belushi.
*[[Blind Io|Blind Io]], chief of the gods. His eyeless face is blindfolded, while many all-seeing eyeballs swarm around his head.
*[[Destiny|Destiny]], not popular around the games table; he always wins.
*[[Errata]], the goddess of misunderstandings; a trouble-maker.
*[[Fate|Fate]], not to be tempted.
*[[Fedecks|Fedecks]], messenger of the gods.
*[[Flatulus|Flatulus]], god of the winds.
*[[The Lady|The Lady]], whose name is not spoken.
*The Monkey-God, possibly based on [[Roundworld]]'s {{wp|Hanuman|Hanuman}}, mentioned as a member of the Dunmanifestin elite in {{TLH}}.
*[[Neoldian]], smith of the gods.
*[[Nuggan|Nuggan]], state god of Borogravia: a twit. Lately reduced to ''[[Small Gods|small god]] status.''
*[[Offler|Offler]] of the Bird-Haunted Mouth: crocodile-headed and widely followed.
*[[Pedestriana]], Goddess of feet and pedal dexterity.
*the [[Sea-Goddess]] who loves dolphins and takes revenge on seaborne dolphin-abusers.
*[[Seven-Handed Sek|Seven-Handed Sek]], says Vengeance is His.

Compare the edit of 00:12 25 Nov with fewer bullets. It would be great to have a sort of standard layout for articles and lists: any thoughts? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 00:18, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

:I definitely prefer it without the bullets for headings. Just having it for each item is better. I also like TC01's plan for a slightly larger font. And yes, it ''would'' be great to have a sort of standard layout, but who'd go looking for all of the pages where they may be? Kellyterryjones might have done, but even the doughty Aggers might find that a step too far...--[[User:Knmatt|Knmatt]] 11:17, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

::I've made another attempt, using the larger font, extra spacing, and fewer bullets... [[User:TC01|TC01]] 00:10, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
:::Like it, TC, like it. There's about another fifty pages like this, so if you'd like to go searching for them and sort them all out with the same formatting we'd all be most grateful! No? Well, worth a try...--[[User:Knmatt|Knmatt]] 11:18, 2 December 2009 (UTC)