his head swam with religions : the weekend was now given to the intricate patterns and language of judaism ; each weekday morning to the wood-scented , stained-glass solemnities of the church of england ; and the nights belonged to his own religion , the one he made up for himself , a strange , multicolored pantheon in which the lords of chaos ( arioch , xiombarg , and the rest ) rubbed shoulders with the phantom stranger from the dc comics and sam the trickster-buddha from zelazny 's lord of light , and vampires and talking cats and ogres , and all the things from the lang colored fairy books : in which all mythologies existed simultaneously in a magnificent anarchy of belief .