While reading “Façade,” the mentioning of Ra, the Egyptian god of the sun, in the story piqued my curiosity. After the first short story in Dream Country featured Calliope, a muse of Greek mythological origin, I found it unexpected that godly figures from two differing mythologies would coexist in the series. I wonder what this says about the world that the Sandman series takes place in. Do all mythologies coexist, and if so, how do they? Furthermore, where do the Endless fall among them? In “Calliope,” Dream was said to be Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams, but is that all? Could he also be a god of dreams in other pantheons? And is the same true for the others? Are Hades and Osiris aspects of the character Death as shown in this series? Are the Endless shaped by how we believe them to be, and is the same true of other mythological figures? Do they appear as reflections of those they come into contact with? Might that explain why Dream appears in different forms through each of the short stories, appearing as a cat before a cat and as a 16th century Englishman to a 16th Century Englishman? Did Neil Gaiman just want to include mythological figures from multiple societies and not think about it much at all? When looked at from the right angle, this small detail about the stories throws the nature its core characters into question.