ranging from disasters to the simple change of seasons or the beauty of comets streaking through the sky have been perhaps the greatest generators of such powerful stories. While most myths seem to be shared in some way across far-flung cultures, there is a subset which is often so specific in some details that they must have some root in reality. Floods, dragons... sky gods and gods of underworlds."

"Llao could be Hades. Skell could be Zeus..." Ina said.

"And on and on," said Peter. "The question becomes: Are there truly a million gods? Call them greater beings, if you will. Or, are there only a few of these that have made contact with humanity over the course of eons, each of which came to be the archetype for one of the many categories of god. The lord of the heaven,...

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