07-19-2013, 07:31 PM | #11 |
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Re: What a "god"?
There's also the god of farce or something like that that masqueraded as a cult's god pretending as an obviously fake "costume" god in a comic strip whose name I can't quite remember.
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07-20-2013, 02:37 AM | #13 |
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Re: What a "god"?
Don't forget the Babylonian theory: the gods are powerful beings who eat the smoke of sacrifices. If nobody sacrifices to them, they starve. So after several false starts, they create mortals to feed them.
Emphasizing ritual over belief can be a good way to give your setting a different flavour than those settings influenced by Christianity.
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07-20-2013, 03:24 AM | #14 |
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Re: What a "god"?
You might be thinking about the "fungod" arc ("That's right! It's a real god disguised as a fake one! And you fell for it!") from the obviously quite NSFW Oglaf.
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07-20-2013, 05:26 AM | #15 |
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Re: What a "god"?
What about collective gods, like the Annunaki? They were just a faceless group, and we don't really know what they did. But they pop up in the Enuma Elish.
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Re: What a "god"?
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07-20-2013, 08:02 AM | #17 |
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Re: What a "god"?
Yes, that's the one. Amazing you could understand my poor memory mangled version. :)
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07-21-2013, 01:39 AM | #18 |
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Re: What a "god"?
It's not that the Annunaki were really faceless. They're a collective grouping of minor, now forgotten deities. At the time, the locals were perfectly aware of who the local Annuna were.
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07-21-2013, 05:55 AM | #19 |
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Re: What a "god"?
But then they transformed into a group of minor deities. What about them at that stage?
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However that does bring to mind another category. Gods who need what comes from worship (in Runequest participating in a worship service caused characters to be temporarily low on temporary POW because they were actually tithing their magic power), but are not themselves directly worshipped. Instead they have an arrangement with another god where in return for service, or because that god is a vassal, they get the power second-hand. |
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