Worldbuilding passing thoughts
Jan. 30th, 2011 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprigToday's question for which I have yet to come up with an answer:
Are the gods of Reiassan real?
If they are real, how active are they in their worshipers' lives?
(On a loose scale between New Testament Jehovah and Greek Zeus)
How much like their worshipers think they are, are they?
I think that they're real, they actually exist.
We were bantering about the idea of yearly 1040ez's for the gods
(bureaucratic deiocracy!)
But, as T pointed out, if you have gods that come down and say This is the Way Things Are, you're less likely to have religious wars over interpretation: "If the Blue God comes down every Thursday, then if people start a war over what you're supposed to sacrifice to him on Monday, on Thursday he's going to be like, 'what are you people doing? No, no, cut that out.'"
So. The gods are real. Perhaps the avatars they choose to portray themselves vary?
Edited to add:
They each show up, once a year, on their holiday. They take a non-human form at that time, and where they show up is ... seems to be random, although it it not really. This is the time they communicate in any fashion with their followers.
Thinking the Blue have the most organized theology and the best records of these visits.
Are the gods of Reiassan real?
If they are real, how active are they in their worshipers' lives?
(On a loose scale between New Testament Jehovah and Greek Zeus)
How much like their worshipers think they are, are they?
I think that they're real, they actually exist.
We were bantering about the idea of yearly 1040ez's for the gods
(bureaucratic deiocracy!)
But, as T pointed out, if you have gods that come down and say This is the Way Things Are, you're less likely to have religious wars over interpretation: "If the Blue God comes down every Thursday, then if people start a war over what you're supposed to sacrifice to him on Monday, on Thursday he's going to be like, 'what are you people doing? No, no, cut that out.'"
So. The gods are real. Perhaps the avatars they choose to portray themselves vary?
Edited to add:
They each show up, once a year, on their holiday. They take a non-human form at that time, and where they show up is ... seems to be random, although it it not really. This is the time they communicate in any fashion with their followers.
Thinking the Blue have the most organized theology and the best records of these visits.
