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- n. Plural form of pantheon.
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“It’s that ingredient that makes us keep coming back, year after year, decade after decade, until they become true icons of the fictional landscape: the greatest heroes have the greatest villain pantheons.”
“The other important thing is that 007’s list of villains — Hugo Drax, Max Zorin, General Koskov, Octopussy, Xenia Onatopp, and SPECTRE, among others — represent one of the all time classic villain pantheons. don’t worry, I didn’t forget about Goldfinger.”
“I was crazy about godly pantheons as a kid, particularly the Greek.”
“Their explanation for all the pantheons and all the monsters that inhabit our collective mythologies and nightmares as being from a single source is an excellent basis for an sf story.”
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“Thor-Hercules Encyclopedia Mythologica - All the mythic pantheons depicted in the Marvel Universe collected together!”
“There are only two pantheons left, made up of those who survived the wars and rivalries.”
“They escape by playing one part of the pantheon off against another: which is another reason why pantheons are useful for low fantasy.”
“When building religious systems for fantasies, what are the advantages/disadvantages of inventing pantheons vs. single gods, or having no religious component at all?”
“If you are going to create pantheons of gods with dozens or hundreds of deities, then you'd better keep a scorecard to know who is whom.”
“I've written one novel with what might be called pantheons of gods, an entire fantasy saga with no effective mention of or acts by any god, science fiction novels with cultural conflicts based on differing, if monotheistic, gods.”
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