Three things that interested me:
1. The idea of a God-Man in this text. I think it will be very interesting to compare the struggle and outlook of a God-Man hybrid that is not aware of their condition in this text, as opposed to New Testament Scripture (what I have the most experience in) where the God-Man is aware of his nature. The idea of a Jesus-esque figure unaware of his nature is really interesting!
2. One literary tool that I have absolutely no experience with is the idea of telling the story within the story itself to maintain it's integrity and keep a loop going for future storytellers. I will be very interested to see how this works and how effective it is!
3. The idea of a text as well-known as this straddling the line between natural and supernatural. With as little experience as I have in this branch of religion, as well as only having Christian scriptures as a personal reference, I think seeing how this straddling of the line affects the storytelling aspect will be very interesting.
Questions
1. I am curious about how far this text toes the moral line in terms of violence and justice. One line I read that particularly interested me was discussing how the text itself justified the assault and disfiguration of certain characters by other characters for the sake of avoiding previous mistakes.
2. How many different forces are at work in this world? The protagonist seems not only to be part God himself but also affected by the push and pull of many other deities within the world itself. Will try not to get confused by that.