The Homeless Gods

Newly opened are the gates of New Eridu, in the lands of The Homeless Gods. Here dwell the fallen gods of Mesopotamia.

This poem-world takes the form of an interactive flash animation map, an interface akin to adventure games such as Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights.

www.thehomelessgods.net


More about The Homeless Gods
The Homeless Gods is an interactive poem-world. In the mythological structure of this world, when a civilisation falls so too do its gods. Banished from their heavens and their hells, without the psychic and spiritual nourishment of their people, they must subsist as best they can - refugees in the very world they created.

What made them divine is lost – the gift of immorality, the magic of old, the power of creation… All that remains is the body and mind, decaying mortal forms. Now they have settled in cities that reflect the worlds they once ruled over. The Homeless Gods is the gateway to these places.

We have tried, where possible, to remain faithful to the original architecture and the complexity of myths, but being a creative project certain liberties have been taken. Similarly, inconsistencies – for example, oscillation between Sumerian and Akkadian denominations – are inevitable. We trust that the scholarly will forgive us for such lapses.

This project was conceived, written and developed by James Stuart, and delivered in collaboration with Karen Chen and Guillaume Potard. It was assisted by the Australian Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.