Demons have existed on the Discworld for at least as long as the gods, who in many ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as that between terrorists and freedom fighters. (E)
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CREATION IS NOT A THING THAT GODS, IT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY ARE. (Strata)
Creators aren’t gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It’s men that make gods. This explains a lot. (LC)
If a battle goddess were allowed to have a respectable blouse and hair rapidly escaping from a tight bun, then Miss Drapes could have been deified.
Wizards don’t believe in gods. They didn’t deny their existence, of course. They just didn’t believe. It was nothing personal; they weren’t actually rude about it. Gods were a visible part of narrativium that made things work, that gave the world its purpose. It was just that they were best avoided close up. (DW)
…what gods need is belief, and what humans want is gods. (SG)
Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman. (WA)
The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. (P)
Not that he had anything against belief. People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people. (P)
‘I didn’t know they were noble,’ said Io.
‘They’re all very rich and have had millions of people butchered or tortured to death merely for reasons of expediency and pride,’ said the Lady. The watching gods nodded solemnly. That was certainly noble behaviour. That was exactly what they would have done. (IT) Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue hues that any professional artist would dismiss as the work of some enthusiastic amateur who’d never looked at a real sunset. (TOT)
‘I still don’t see how one god can be a hundred thunder gods. They all look different...’
‘False noses.’ ‘What?’ ‘And different voices. I happen to know Io’s got seventy different hammers. Not common knowledge, that. And It’s just the same with mother goddesses. There’s only one of ‘em. She just got a lot of wigs and of course it’s amazing what you can do with a padded bra'. (SG) |
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