07-11-2018, 09:35 PM | #911 |
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Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels
You know that concept requires another parallel where only male gods exist.
Funny would be if neither group acknowledges the other or maybe even seems unable to learn or understand the concept that they have an opposite set. Perhaps even another with only demigods that are descendants of gods in our myths but just unique individuals there.
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And if it's Japanese, why does it use western hours and not traditional koku? Japan didn't adopt hours until the end of the 19th century.
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The major problem for Homeline is that the goddesses might decide to help the other timelines or reveal the Secret to the other timelines. Infinity has already documented goddesses getting involved in wars in a few Q3 timelines, on both sides, where they are destroying any soldiers that abuse civilians (while war seems foreign to the goddesses, they understand conflict and violence, and do not seem to mind as long as innocents do not suffer). The I-Cops have stumbled on villages in Q3 timelines where the inhabitants have abandoned their old faiths to worship the living goddess who rescued them (while it is still rare, there are a few goddesses who seem to have permanently immigrated to new timelines, where they enjoy being worshipped as benevolent deities). Other than the exception of a few permanent immigrants though, the Division of Divine Diplomacy has managed to remind the goddesses to return to their timeline through bribery and supplication. They are helped by the fact that the goddesses are tourists, not expats, and seem to be more interested to spreading through their timeline's Milky Way rather than through the timelines (they have been documented stealing technology from some very advanced timelines). The resulting fusion of divine power and advanced technology, called GodTech by some Homeline researchers, has already resulted in interplanetary spacecraft that have contacted the goddesses and the inhabitants of Goddess-1's Mars and Venus, both of which seem to be inhabited by their own forms of life. |
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07-12-2018, 11:24 AM | #916 |
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Who one goddess might consider innocent, others won't. That's a purely subjective concept after all.
But their world has never had war of any kind? Either they ruled humanity with an iron fist from the very beginnings, and/or humans of that world are very unlike real humans. We love killin' and have since we formed medium sized groups.
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Too true. Hel was considered a negative goddess by the Norse, but is she really not innocent if she's simply trying to end war (albeit for her own purposes)? |
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07-12-2018, 02:44 PM | #918 |
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Goddesses of war are often really goddesses of conflict, which may extend from death, fertility, nature, etc. There are conflicts within Goddess-1, but they are duels between deities instead of wars, as deities are reluctant to lose their worshippers to violence. Goddesses might have multiple names (and multiple visages), as it is within their powers to change their appearance to fit the beliefs of their followers.
For example, Amaterasu is the sun goddess of the Japanese, but she is also known to the Egyptians as Bast, to the Germans as Sola, the Norse as Freya, etc. There is only one sun goddess, but she is known by many names and wears many visages. Which is the original? Who knows? It does not matter to her, and she would not welcome such questions. |
07-12-2018, 03:25 PM | #919 |
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According to Wikipedia, kaku is a measure of volume, not time.
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I'm still confused about the existence of Norse gods in a world without war, given the abhorrence of straw death. |
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