Abominations Unto Nuggan

Nuggan became one of the more powerful among the newer gods of the Discworld. He was the state god of Borogravia, but also in charge of paperclips, correct things in the right place in small desk stationery sets, and unnecessary paperwork. He was very serious about setting prohibitions, which his followers call Abominations. Nuggan thought that a god ought to prohibit things that people truly want, so that the prohibition has real effect on people’s lives. So, Nuggan set the rules that his people should eat neither chocolate nor garlic.

The Abominations came so thick and fast that the Holy Book of Nugganism took the form of a loose-leaf binder which his priests and devotees took care to keep stocked with fresh paper. It has been observed that new Abominations wrote themselves in much the same way that the biographies in Death’s library write themselves. But just as those biographies cease to be written at the point of death, it has also been observed that Abominations faltered to virtually nothing with Nuggan’s presumed slump into Small God status.

Of course today followers of Nuggan (and fans of Terry Pratchett) are decreeing things that they don’t like as Abominations Unto Nuggan, and so the term has suffered from ‘feature creep’. Whichever way you enjoy your Abominations, there may be something here for you.

This website is an attempt to collect and collate the classic abominations as well as any new ones that you may have spotted.

(Partially Sourced from the Discworld Wiki)

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Abominations Unto Nuggan