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=== ''Lord Of Light'' contains examples of: ===
* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: And they're ''human'' astronauts, at that.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Yama believes that the gods have become truly divine by identifying themselves so thoroughly with a single concept, such as love, war, or death, that they become it. [[Shut UP, Hannibal|Sam thinks he's full of it.]]
* [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence]]: Sam's exile to Nirvana: his ''atman'' is transmitted along self-perpetuating radio-waves. He's quite upset when he's brought back.
* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Sam. Twice.}}
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* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Taraka. Even though he's a demon, this always surpises Sam.
* [[Church Militant]]: Nirriti the Black.
** Which becomes a case of [[Well
* [[Clarke's Third Law]]: The whole idea of the book is to explore this from the perspective of the people using the sufficiently advanced technology.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: It would be easier to list the characters who aren't.
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* [[Energy Being]]: The Rakasha. There were apparently others before them, but the gods wiped them out.
* [[Enlightenment Superpowers]]: essentially the source of everyone's [[Psychic Powers]] and thus their alleged godhood.
* [[Evil Overlord]]: Nirriti the Black is a subversion. A [[Good Colors, Evil Colors|black-clad]] conqueror who leads legions of [[The Undead]] in his quest to [[Take Over the World]], he is actually a [[Church Militant]] Christian, and his hordes are [[Organic Technology]] robots, not zombies.
* [[Fake Nationality]]: A number of the original ship's crew would seem not to be actually Indian. They have names like Sam, Madeleine, Renfrew, and Jan Olvegg. Apparently the ''colonists'' they carried were mostly Indian.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Yama, crossing over with [[Mad Scientist]], and making a brief stop at [[Science Hero]].
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* [[A God Am I]]: The "gods" now honestly believe themselves to be divine.
* [[God Couple]]: Yama and Kali. It ends badly.
* [[God
* [[Guile Hero]]: Sam has potent powers at his disposal, but prefers to triumph through trickery.
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Taraka.
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