"I thought that was the
ugg discount Devil."
"Yeah, him too. But they were talking about Herodotus saying there were giant ants and gryphons guarding gold mines, and how he made this stuff up."
"I don't think so. He wrote what he'd been told. It's like, he's writing these histories. And they're mostly pretty good histories. Loads of weird little details-like, did you know, in Egypt, if a particularly beautiful girl or the
ugg boots on sale wife of a lord or whatever died, they wouldn't send her to the embalmer for three days? They'd let her body spoil in the heat first."
"Why? Oh, hold on. Okay, I think I know why. Oh, that's disgusting."
"And there're battles in there, all sorts of normal things. And then there are the gods. Some guy is running back to
ugg boots for women report on the outcome of a battle and he's running and running, and he sees Pan in a glade. And Pan says, 'Tell them to build me a temple here.' So he says okay, and runs the rest of the way back. And he reports the battle news, and then says, 'Oh, and by the way, Pan wants you
discount uggs for women to build him a temple.' It's really matter-of-fact, you know?"
"So there are stories with gods in them. What are you trying to say? That these guys had hallucinations?"
"No," said Shadow. "That's not it."
She chewed a hangnail. "I read some book about brains," she said. "My roommate had it and she kept waving it around. It was like, how five
discount uggs for women thousand years ago the lobes of the brain fused and before that people thought when the right lobe of the brain said anything it was the voice of some god telling them what to do. It's just brains."
"I like my theory better," said Shadow.
"What's your theory?"
"That back then people used to run into the gods from time to time."
"Oh."
discount uggs for women Silence: only the rattling of the car, the roar of the engine, the growling of the muffler-which did not sound healthy. Then, "Do you think they're still there?"
"Where?"
"Greece. Egypt. The islands. Those places. Do you think if you walked where those people walked you'd see the gods?"