false 5 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 01 00:17:03 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 15:01:38 -0800 2008 American Gods? In a post-modern context, they are the ones who represent technology, the information age, and consumer culture. Americans believe in them on some level, whether that belief is acknowledged or not. In America, there is also the professed belief in God, but is it real? The American gods are also those people brought with them when they came to America, such as the gods of the Norse pantheon, Hindu deities, and spirits and other beings such as jinn, leprechauns, and faeries. Belief in these figures on some level brought them to America, making them co-immigrants with indentured servants, slaves, traders, and people who came to settle. Both the old gods and the new ones are manifest in human form and live among the mortals. Despite their quirks, the gods are presented as banal, working and making transactions with human beings. However, an epic battle is ahead, representing a struggle that is not so much between good and evil as it is between old and new.
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