THEOMACHY: War of the Gods
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To my mother, who takes my achievements as her own and who encouraged me to write this book To my father, who did everything in his power to make this book possible To my brothers, who guided me at every step PREFACE Theomachy, (theo-ma-ki), a Greek word meaning ‘the war of the gods’ is as much a study in comparative mythology and religion as it is an epic poem. In my years of studying the epics of Homer and Snorri Sturluson and Vyasa (characters which are also portrayed as thinly veiled projections in the poem itself), I was disposed to writing one myself and create a bosy of myth of my own, although it is nowhere comparable in its rendering, either in skill or magnitude or the intense labor of the said masters. There are characters that have been taken directly from myths and there are characters created for the express purpose of furthering the narrative. Mythological characters popular either in the east or the west have been distilled to suit ...