Earlier this month, I saw Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie at a discussion with fairy tale scholar Maria Tatar in Cambridge, MA. Asked about his use of gods in literature and Luka, the British novelist—and knight—had a few interesting things to say:
“[The] great pantheons were once living religions. The Greek gods were once the religion of Greece, the Roman gods ditto, and the Norse gods the same and the Aztec gods the same and so on. And they had priests and temples and no doubt inquisitions and the whole apparatus of a church. Which doesn’t attract me. But when people stop believing in [these gods] literally, they become available to us to believe in in a much more interesting way…
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