A race of Elder Gods overthrown by a present race of younger gods is a mythic theme in the Ancient Near East, and in Indo-European mythologies of the Greeks, Ancient Germans and others: see Titan (mythology), Titanomachy.
Employing this cultural background, modern adaptations include:
- Elder God (Cthulhu Mythos), a type of fictional deity in the Cthulhu mythos
- The Elder God, a video game character in the Legacy of Kain series
- Elder Gods (Marvel Comics), fictional gods in the Marvel Universe
- Elder Gods (Mortal Kombat), fictional entities in the Mortal Kombat mythos
Famous quotes containing the words elder and/or god:
“Late in the afternoon, we rode through Brewster, so named after Elder Brewster, for fear he would be forgotten else. Who has not heard of Elder Brewster? Who knows who he was?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Have you never been moved by poor men’s fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man’s dream—and yet God blesses it!”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)