Look, if I'm going to deal with existing religions in my fanfiction, I might as well go for broke and come up with something to offend *everybody*, if someone was so anal as to actually *be* offended.
Bob has, knowingly or not, decided to continue with my technique.
As a point of fact, Shiva actually has several aspects in the classical representation - the Destroyer angle is one of many, another is an ice goddess. Only a couple of those aspects is actually *evil*. Heck, most of them are male.
Shiva was actually the only choice for her role I could come up with (at the time) that would work. I needed a goddess, to allow Paradox and Thor play the overprotective male angle. I needed her to be evil in popular literature (preferably someone ambigous). I also wanted to make an extension out from the Norse pantheon I was playing with. I also wanted to make the point that the celestials, good or bad, had enough humanity in them to take such a fall - to give up being a king in hell to be a pawn in heaven.
My personal vision as it ties into the God's Toy/DW/Legion works is that in each universe, the deities that interact with it do so in a method that's appropriate.
And just because I'm writing random thoughts....
The Hinduistic idea that all gods are, in fact, connected to/aspects of/representations of the ultimate God is probably the closest to my vision. It's a subtle thing though.
If you want to *really* get a headache, think on this: If Kami-sama is the ultimate god, creator, etc of the universe in OMB - in other words, if he's essentially the Judeo/Christian omniscient/unlimited God - then why does he have any of the celestials in the first place? Why does he have Yggdrasil? Where does Kami-sama stop and Yggdrasil begin?
And for a fun exercise....
How about some parallels for Yggdrasil in other pantheons? For example, in the Greco/Reoman it'd probably be Mount Olympus. With the In Nom base of the J/C pantheon, it's the Celestial Song. What about other pantheons?
Bob has, knowingly or not, decided to continue with my technique.
As a point of fact, Shiva actually has several aspects in the classical representation - the Destroyer angle is one of many, another is an ice goddess. Only a couple of those aspects is actually *evil*. Heck, most of them are male.
Shiva was actually the only choice for her role I could come up with (at the time) that would work. I needed a goddess, to allow Paradox and Thor play the overprotective male angle. I needed her to be evil in popular literature (preferably someone ambigous). I also wanted to make an extension out from the Norse pantheon I was playing with. I also wanted to make the point that the celestials, good or bad, had enough humanity in them to take such a fall - to give up being a king in hell to be a pawn in heaven.
My personal vision as it ties into the God's Toy/DW/Legion works is that in each universe, the deities that interact with it do so in a method that's appropriate.
And just because I'm writing random thoughts....
The Hinduistic idea that all gods are, in fact, connected to/aspects of/representations of the ultimate God is probably the closest to my vision. It's a subtle thing though.
If you want to *really* get a headache, think on this: If Kami-sama is the ultimate god, creator, etc of the universe in OMB - in other words, if he's essentially the Judeo/Christian omniscient/unlimited God - then why does he have any of the celestials in the first place? Why does he have Yggdrasil? Where does Kami-sama stop and Yggdrasil begin?
And for a fun exercise....
How about some parallels for Yggdrasil in other pantheons? For example, in the Greco/Reoman it'd probably be Mount Olympus. With the In Nom base of the J/C pantheon, it's the Celestial Song. What about other pantheons?