anybody know where i can find a list of each of the gods in American Gods?

From Neil's March 2004 blog (I haven't checked the site):

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Hello Neil!
This is less of a question and more of a request-- I have a website about American Gods (http://frowl.org/gods/) which attempts to list all of the gods and mythological beings in the book, and I get a lot of wonderful people emailing me with additions and corrections. (Lots more since you posted the link on your blog awhile back, so thank you for that!) I had been saving a bunch of these emails to reply to them when I had time to give a decent reply, i.e. Spring Break. Unfortunately, I use webmail, and some random server crash erased all my saved emails. I'm hoping that if you post this on your blog, these people will see this and email me again, rather than continue their lives believing that I have chosen to ignore their messages. Also, I did update the site rather a lot, including a section that I think is kinda neat, with maps that (attempt to) document Shadow's travels.
So anyway, thanks very much if you could pass that along! (And if not, well, I imagine they'll all get over their unanswered emails )
Have a lovely day/evening/whenever!

Renata



Consider it passed along: E-mail Renata with your annotatory information on Gods...

sweet, thanks.

The 'frowl' site may have a good list of gods, but some of the information about those gods is unfortunately still wrong (at least regarding the Norse deities about which I know the most). Since it may be some considerable time - who knows - before that site gets updated, I suggest you tread warily in the meantime.

Stormerne, you may want to email Renata with any corrections you've found.

I've actually emailed Renata with some corrections (specifically about Loki), well over a month ago now. No corrections made yet.

A good place to strat is http://www.pantheon.org/

Oops. Hi. Yes, I know corrections need to be made, and every email I've gotten is waiting patiently in a folder. (TheKithless, seriously, there are like 10 emails in there about Loki. OH Man you make one [or several] stupid mistakes on a website and the whole internet lets you know. Not that I mind, I'm glad, but it also means I have a whole stack of email that makes me feel dumb.)

ANYWAY. All I have to say is that I apologize for the long waits between updates/fixes but that, really, it will happen one day. I mean, I lived in a tent all summer and my computer's been broken and then I moved to another country... and... well anyway, I'll update it one day, I promise.

HEY I updated, so if you sent me an email with a correction you should now have an reply from me waiting for you. Also the site should now have your stuff on it.

Also I'm going to bed because somehow it's 2:30 am now. (Hey I meant to post this last night but apparently I just left the window open and didn't hit post. Possibly because it was 2:30 am and my brain was dead.)

Although this topic was posted quite awhile back, I thought I would just add on with a relevant question...

Throughout the book, there are plenty of other deities that aren't mentioned in frowl.org or any other website I looked in: for instance, after the passage containing Wednesday and Shadow's visit to the Gorgon, who was the woman with the blue spiral tattooes? (It's also hard for me to match up with the site because I have the paperback edition)

Also... when all the gods meet at the battleside, there are the Mexicans with the drink, and some others that I couldn't find. Is there any way to discover their identities?

You mean other than getting really involved with the subject and getting to know a lot of foreign pantheon's? I doubt it...

That kinda shows what length N.G. must have gone to in research for that book (or what a sophisticated guy he is, as some people happen to "just know" such things.)

Here's a list of (minor) characters, potentially Gods, mentioned in the course of the story - and not presented on the wonderful "only the gods are real" site (http://frowl.org/gods/)
Most of them come from the part of the story that's telling of the great assembly for the big battle...

FEMALE:
- A deity of three women joined at the hip (with expressive, detailed genitalia)
- Dame Rumor
- muscular leather queens (amazones?)
- A small girl with black hair, her skin "as brown as the river"
- Sister Moon
- White Buffalo Woman

MALE:
- A trucker who's been killed with a clawheaded hammer (would that be the tool of a Carpenter?)
- A UPS truck driver (Hermes?)
- Four mexicans, drinking a bitter mix of powdered chocolate, liquor and blood
- red haired men in green jackets
- A blue skinned man holding a flaming bow (Hindu Pantheon?)
- A gray skinned man, his cyclopean eye a huge cabochon emerald
- A man in an elegant suit (maybe The Forgettable God once more?)
- A man in golden chain mail holding a sword of eyes (Arab Pantheon?)
- Squat and swarthy men, their impassive faces as regular as aztec carvings
- A Wampyr (Vampire)
- St.Valentine
- Thor
- Ymir

Seven -clean(!)- chinese men and women providing weapons for the battle of gods

OF UNDEFINED SEX:
- Community of nine anchorites
- A head the size of a VW beetle
- Rakshasas (Hindu demons)
- Something inside a crypt in Key West
- The Starpeople

CREATURES:
- A bull headed minotaur
- A Werewolf
- An iron fingered dactyl
- A bear with flowers twined into his fur (Russian Spring Spirit?)
- A naked apelike creature covered with a tangle of orange fur (Hindu Pantheon?)
- Ammet (Egypt!)
- Nunyunnini

FORCES:
- The Winds


And from the "coming to America" story of Essie Tregowan:

Bloody-Bones - Raw-head - The sealwoman of the channel - The blue-caps (living down the mines) - The Knockers - The Spriggans - The Bucca - The Cornishmen - The apple-tree Men - The black dog of the moors.

Not to forget the piskies, ghouls, dwarfs, trolls, giants and kobolds...



THE OPPOSITION:

Mostly "things" made by humans but not ruled by them any longer...

- The intangibles and the players
- TECHNOLOGY (The fat kid, a sniper, neon, plastic)
- THE SPOOKS (Mr. Road, Mr. Stone, Mr. Town, Mr. Wood, Mr. World)
- TRAFFIC (Car gods, gods of the airplanes/flying machines, railroad baron, Freeways)
- COMMUNICATION (Beepers, Internet, Radio Modern, Telephone)
- MEDICINE (hospital, the cancerous thing with scalpel fingers, Synthetic drugs like the "mouth in a pillar of glittering smoke" (Crystal Meth?))
- COMMERCE (Credit Cards, Market forces, trademarks)
- MEDIA (The TV-People, People looking like movie stars, people looking like the ideal of a person, people looking like aliens, Popularity, Fame)



P.S.: I thought the woman with the blue spiral tatoos was The Morrigan (as a blue (prbly. tribal) body paint often is attributed to Picts and other Gaels such as the Celts)