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

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His wife, Theia, who belongs to the Titan lineage, shares a familial bond as his sister and presides as the goddess overseeing sight and the azure expanse of the sky. It is also revealed that this century of peace was originally meant to be a century of war and bloodshed which the History Monk Lu-Tze changed to something he liked better. Vorbis is utterly baffled by the idea of a philosopher suggesting that his ideas aren't the singular truth. Everyone has their own opinion and their own gods, of every shape and size - all fighting for faith, followers, and a place at the top.

He has spent three years at least without being aware of what he was, and is consequently terrified of what happens if he gets too far away from Brutha.

As a result, Brutha is to be publicly burned for heresy while strapped on a heated bronze turtle but Om comes to the rescue, dropping from an eagle's claws onto Vorbis' head, killing him. The Plan: Vorbis' plans, among other things, include invading Ephebe by sending the Omnian fleet to attack Ephebe directly - and getting burned by a giant Ephebian magnifying glass - partly as a justification to his main plan to cross the desert, helped by several expeditions that left caches of food and water along the way. Pratchett stated that he received fan mail from "1) pagans who say that it really shafts the Big Beard In the Sky religions and 2) Christians who say that it is an incredibly pro-Christian book". The Corrupter: Vorbis is noted at least twice to have a tendency to make those around him more like himself.

The connection between peanuts and naked ladies may be unclear to some readers - it refers to the once-common practice of stapling peanut packets to a cardboard bar display with a picture of a woman on it. Om has a hard time convincing the boy of his godliness, as Brutha is convinced that Om can do anything he wants, and would not want to appear as a tortoise. The story opens in the city of Omnia, whose chief god, Om, has been reduced to a pitiful existence in the form of a turtle because, despite an enormous organized religion centered around his worship, no one really believes in him any more.

Almighty Janitor: Lu-Tze literally acts like a janitor, while secretly tweaking the timeline to avoid a war. The first adventure in the Folio Society editions of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ series, Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood features Jonathan Burton’s enchanting illustrations and a new introduction by Michael Morpurgo.