The New and Improved Godchecker

I devoured mythology when I was a young'un. I remember being shocked when Marvel began publishing the adventures of the mighty Thor in Journey Into Mystery #82, since the Thor I knew from Norse myths was kind of a dim lout—smart aleck that I was, I identified more with Loki, completely missing how malevolent the trickster god was.

Now that I'm a Neil Gaiman fan, I need a resource like Godchecker just to keep up with all of his pan-cultural references. New and improved, Godchecker now includes the gods of Oceana, Mesopotamia, and a brand new pantheon of "Chinese gods that will knock your socks off"—not to mention the story about the time that Finn McCool met the Salmon of Knowledge.

Stick around kids, you can learn all sorts of stuff here.

COMMENTS
Jeff Wong's picture

When checking out the Chinese Gods section, it was interesting for me to read about the Wade-Giles system and Pinyin pronunciation/spelling. I don't know if it's just a matter of dialect, or the shift in use of these systems, but, in my household when growing up, the food tofu was pronounced dow foo.

Monty's picture

I've always thought that Gilgemesh was getting short-changed out of his contribution to the whole 40 days and 40 nights turd floater we all know so well.

Wes Phillips's picture

He's a Shamash hit in the World of Uruk!

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