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Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Traveller, Gozer the Destructor.
From the rooftop of Ivo Shandors beautiful appartment building, a large doorway opens unto a strange and terrifying demension. From the temple inside, with her two faithful minions by her side, now in their true form, Gozer the Destructor emerges.She has come for one reason and one reason only, to destroy the human race. Apocalypse really is now. With the dead raising from their graves, ghosts running rampant through Manhattan, and the sky turning pitch black in the middle of the day, the citizens call upon the only people they know who could save them from the End-Times. The Ghostbusters.
The soundclip played when you entered this site is how Ray Stantz greets their unearthly visitor, and her response is simply "Are you a God?". Ray, knowing full well that he isn't and born without common sense or the capacity to lie tells her, No. To the point, Gozer stretches out her arms and Blasts the Ghostbusters nearly off the roof.
Annoyed and in a hurry, Gozer tell's them that they must choose the form of the destructor, they have to choose what it is they want to come into their world to wipe them out of exsistance; hey, at least she's nice about it right?
Venkman comes up with the brilliant plan to empty all of their heads, if they think of nothing, nothing will come. Unfortunatly for the first time ever, Ray can not empty his head and so he thinks of something innocent and pure from his boyhood at camp. He summons the Stay Puft Marshallow Man.
Who is Gozer...really?
First, it might be interesting to note that in hebrew, roughly translated Gozer mean's "surgeon who circumsizes".
In the Movie Gozer is portrayed as a fictional Sumerian god but "in the real Sumerian religion, the deity's true name is Tiamat, but had to be changed to the unique Gozer for the silm because of copyright issues with the makers of Dungeons and Dragons. " (paleorama.com, march 16th)
Tiamat, in the Sumerian religion Tiamat "is primeval Chaos, bearer of the skies, and the earth and mother of Lahmu and Lahamu" (Siren, Christopher, 2000). From this, we can draw some parrallels with Tiamat and Gozer. Tiamat is Chaos, and we know that Gozer brings Chaos and destruction. Tiamat is bearer of the skies, and Gozer was summoned from the rooftop of a high-rise apartment building. Tiamat is also the mother of Lahmu and Lahamu, when Gozer is "mother" to Zuul and Vins Clortho, two demi-god minions.
