GODS INSIDE
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This is a work of what I call "speculative mythology." It's the shared, continuous stories of a highly eusocial people, and the many names that have emerged across the telling and retelling, translating and re-translating of these tales across many generations. It's bug lore, ant mythology, spec myth, a love letter to a people who never existed. There's Skith, who climbed. Akkis, who ran. The two-tandem of Sett and Tattik. Rika, who went downward, and who dueled in the Serpent-Tunnel. The Small Colony, the Four Tree Colony, the tumult of Our Mound where no Queen lives, and the great labors of the Gods Inside.
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- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2025
- Author
- Sceloporus
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- Rating
- 5.0/ 5.0
- Followers
- 3
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- 2,816
Chapters(15 total)
- THE TALE OF SIKAS SIX-EYESFeb 19, 2025
- HOW SKITH FOUND SICKNESS AND LEARNED OF HER VENOMFeb 18, 2025
- THE SLEEPING-BUG AND THE SUMMER-SEASONFeb 18, 2025
- HOW SKITH FOUND THE LEARNED CASTES AND THE SOLDIER NAMED RATHAKFeb 17, 2025
- HOW THE FIRST QUEEN WAS BIRTHED FROM THINGS LEARNED AND THE MAKING OF THE CASTESFeb 16, 2025
- HOW THE LOST DAUGHTER NAMED SKITH SEARCHED FOR HER LABOR AND FOUND EVILFeb 16, 2025
- OF SKITH AND AS-ATHA, AND THEIR FIRST FORAGINGFeb 15, 2025
- OF SKITH'S SEARCH FOR LABOR, AND OF THE GREAT THINGS SHE DIDFeb 15, 2025
- MEETING THE REPLETE AND HOW THE LOST DAUGHTER WAS NAMEDFeb 15, 2025
- HOW HELPFUL AKKIS DID LEAD GOOD LABORS AND HOW THE QUEEN'S LOST DAUGHTER FOLLOWED HERFeb 14, 2025
- YAKA AND THE FUNGUS, OR HOW YAKA WATCHED THE MOONFeb 14, 2025
- CLEVER YAKA AND THE THORNED VALLEY, OR YAKA AND THE SPIDERFeb 14, 2025
- HOW CLEVER YAKA LEARNED BESIDE THE SWEETPINK BUSHFeb 13, 2025
- HOW THE QUEEN'S LOST DAUGHTER WAS FOUNDFeb 13, 2025
- THE QUEEN'S LOST DAUGHTER, WHO CLIMBEDFeb 13, 2025
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Community Reviews(1)
- ColdGlassRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Most fantasy fiction involves some kind of mythology, even if it isn't spelled out in detail, but I find I lot of the time it feels unconvincing — very often it feels rote & generic, lacking the specificity & strangeness that marks 'real' mythology & folk tales.
This is very much an exception to that! There's a real mythic feeling to these stories, both in content & language. Reminds me a little of Dunsany's Gods of Pegāna, which is high praise indeed.
Also brings back vague memories of playing SimAnt on my Amiga in the mid-'90s — the protagonists here are ants. (Or at least ant-like insects?) Which injects just the right amount of weirdness.