Okay then, who were the Old Gods?
The Watcher – The gods who came before the cataclysm that divided one world into New Genesis and Apokolips. It was implied in several Jack Kirby issues that the old gods might have been the Norse gods of Asgard. In an issue of FOURTH WORLD, John Byrne made the connection explicit by using Thor in a story. David Gordon – The Norse gods, for the most part: Thor, Loki, Odin, etc. Thad Doria – While the Norse Gods concept is the predominant one, alternate concepts exist. In History of the DC Universe, Marv Wolfman suggests that the war between the Titans and the Olympians unleashed the energy that created New Genesis and Apokolips. In Cosmic Odyssey, Jim Starlin proposed that the “Old Gods” were a race of super scientists who dabbled in Things They Were Not Meant to Know and destroyed themselves in an attempt to probe the Anti-Life dimension. According to Mark Evanier’s run on New Gods, animated corpses of the Old Gods shamble beneath New Genesis–they are the Dreggs. They mindlessly re-en
