--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > >> So Brahma gets aggravated if you're a little off-center? > >> > > > > This is a total non-sequitur, but have you all read > > Roger Zelazny's novel "Lord Of Light?" > > > > It was a classic of science fiction, winning the > > Hugo award, and it's wonderful on its own merits. > > But what might make it interesting to TMers is > > that it's a reinvention of the Hindu pantheon. > > > > On a world far away from Earth (which is now either > > gone or forgotten), the orginal settlers have tech- > > nologically given themselves the names and attributes > > of the Hindu gods. They live above the planet in an > > atomic-powered Brahmaloka that floats in the sky, > > and they dole out equally technological reincarnation > > to the people they keep in poverty and ignorance on > > the planet itself. Into this world comes one of the > > other original settlers, a troublemaker they thought > > they'd gotten rid of, and he's the Buddha figure. His > > name is Mahasamatman, but he prefers to drop the > > Maha- and -atman and just call himself Sam. > > > > It's a wonderful book. You gotcher siddhis, rakshasas, > > hanky-panky among the gods and goddesses, and even > > enlightenment. What's not to like? > Yes, I read it back in the early 70's when it came out. I believe at > one time there was going to be a movie made of it too. > > Speaking of rakshasas I finally caught up with the old Kolchak episode > which was on Sci-Fi Thursday where he battles one and then that night > the "CW" series "Supernatural" guys were battling one. >
Eh, "That's My Bush" was a sitcom ABOUT one... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
