{"id":101030,"date":"2026-06-23T02:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101030"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:40:13","slug":"american-gods-land-and-egregores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/23\/american-gods-land-and-egregores\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>American Gods<\/em>: Land and Egregores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EPZh_3RpKbw?si=ykz_71joNK8FH0dP\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 20 Feb 2026<\/p>\n<p><em>American Gods<\/em> (Neil Gaiman, 2001) is, among other things, a layered examination of the role of mythologies, religion, national identities, and some underlying &#8220;American-ness&#8221; that bends them all into something new. By necessity this meanders a bit (I&#8217;m not going to get into Gaiman&#8217;s failings as a human being much) but it gives us a lot to think about. <\/p>\n<p>I mention a couple outside references in here, links below if you want to dig into it.<\/p>\n<p>Lilly Wachowski on the role of the Red Pill in <em>The Matrix<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/the-matrix-movie-trans-allegory-explained-lilly-wachowski\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/screenrant.com\/the-matrix-mov&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Lucas on the Rebellion, and Viet Cong (people often quote the line but miss the context) :    \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nxl3IoHKQ8c\" target=\"_blank\">JAMES CAMERON&#8217;S STORY OF SCIENCE FICTION |&#8230;<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:56 The Setup<br \/>\n04:48 Spirit of America<br \/>\n07:57 White and Red<br \/>\n10:50 New Gods and the State<br \/>\n12:51 Author, Intent, and Meaning<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\nStill plugging <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em> &#8211;  Book 2 coming very soon<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 20 Feb 2026 American Gods (Neil Gaiman, 2001) is, among other things, a layered examination of the role of mythologies, religion, national identities, and some underlying &#8220;American-ness&#8221; that bends them all into something new. By necessity this meanders a bit (I&#8217;m not going to get into Gaiman&#8217;s failings as a human being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,13],"tags":[262,1593,822,85],"class_list":["post-101030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-usa","tag-culture","tag-feralhistorian","tag-mythology","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qhw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101031,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101030\/revisions\/101031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}