Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13) (Discworld Novels)

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After learning that Vorbis had facilitated the death of the missionary Brother Murduck to cover up his being mocked by Ephebian citizenry and to provide a casus belli for war against Ephebe, Brutha uses his memory to reluctantly aid an Omnian raid through the Labyrinth guarding the Tyrant's palace. Omar Rayyan is a US-based artist whose illustrations are featured in various games, children’s publications, magazines and illustrated books, including The Brown Fairy Book (2010) and A Traveller in Time (2012) for The Folio Society. Liar's Paradox: One of the Ephebian philosophers gets into trouble when he tries to discuss this paradox with his fellows. The newt shows up on Cori Celesti (because of how belief works on the Disc) and is just as ignorant as its worshippers, conceptualizing war as "like the time Pacha Mog hit his uncle with big rock, only more worse".

Thanks to the wizards of the Unseen University Bilious' symptoms are reversed for a time and he is able to help Susan on her quest (and make Bilious feel thoroughly miserable. A common personification for gods is "A big beard in the sky," because all a baby can see of his father is a big beard hovering over them, and if a god is one's heavenly father, and one is to believe with the faith of a child, it stands to reason that god looks. When Om does regain a lot of die-hard believers, he's able to beat up Dunmanifestin's chief god Io because nobody believes in thunder gods all that strongly anymore. False Prophet: Deacon Vorbis deliberately lied about a missionary being killed when the Ephebians were not responsive to the Omnian message, so as to create a casus belli for invading and annexing the country, then converting the people, by force, to Omnianism. All believers regularly add pages to the ring binder Appendices, which then eventually fill with more commandments, usually Abominations unto Nuggan.

Brutha is persuaded to go on a journey to Ephebe, home to a community of philosophers, where Omnian soldiers ransack the city and burn down its libraries. Beneath the temple, Urn and sergeant Fergmen made their way through the tunnels of the citadel using the kind of nonchalant walk which would draw detailed and arrow-sharp attention to them in seconds. Om, it seems, wants followers, but won't set any examples for them to live by, and in fact doesn't even seem interested in doing so.

Red Herring: The desert lion seems like it'll be important later, but really only exists after the initial encounter to provide a punchline. As with the Discworld Wiki, the text of Wikipedia:Wikipedia is available under the Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License. Didactylos living in a barrel and carrying a lantern to look for a good man (as well as his generally irrevant attitude to authority) is meant to evoke the Greek philosopher Diogenes. With the help of Ephebe's Great Library, and the philosophers Didactylos and his nephew Urn, Om learns that Brutha is his only genuine believer. They went out into the desert but did not come back, preferring a hermit's life of dirt and hardship and dirt and holy contemplation and dirt.God of agriculture, leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans and father of the Titans. Seamus Heaney’s deeply felt interpretation, widely acknowledged as the greatest Beowulf translation of modern times, is presented in parallel with the Old English verse in this fabulous Folio edition.