✏ GOD
A god is not a creator. A god usually rules and is worshipped.
To understand what a god is, imagine one buys a formicarium. Ants live there as a society, they eat, sleep, work, reproduce, while the owner of the formicarium provides them ("his chosen people") with food for free ("manna"), takes care of their habitat ("the promised land"), and generally enjoys watching the ants live. The owner of the formicarium is literally the god to those ants.
But did the owner actually create anything - ants themselves, the formicarium, food etc? No, but still, ants' lives depend on the owner completely.
So, even you, reader, can be a god, though only for inferior species (livestock, for instance).
Another type of a god is of different nature.
When a group of people starts thinking the sameor similar thoughts and following the same rules, a new special entity is... born. It's traditionally called "an egregore", it doesn't have a physical body, although it may have many representations of itself - idols, monuments, pictures, symbols etc, and it does define its people's existance. However, this type of a god depends on his people as well, namely, it needs people's psychic (and/or mental) energy to feed and grow on - prayers, hymns, hard labor, thoughts, efforts and so on. Usually, but not always, gods like that need their flock to increase in number - it means more "food", more power and influence.
Gods like that are very numerous and different in "size" - from a world religion and "a nation", down to a small isolated community or a school class, these are all gods. And since most of them are proactive and need to grow, they do fight between themselves sometimes, and they have a lot of followers to send into battle who usually gladly kill each other to their gods' pleasure and glory.
#mythoughts
A god is not a creator. A god usually rules and is worshipped.
To understand what a god is, imagine one buys a formicarium. Ants live there as a society, they eat, sleep, work, reproduce, while the owner of the formicarium provides them ("his chosen people") with food for free ("manna"), takes care of their habitat ("the promised land"), and generally enjoys watching the ants live. The owner of the formicarium is literally the god to those ants.
But did the owner actually create anything - ants themselves, the formicarium, food etc? No, but still, ants' lives depend on the owner completely.
So, even you, reader, can be a god, though only for inferior species (livestock, for instance).
Another type of a god is of different nature.
When a group of people starts thinking the sameor similar thoughts and following the same rules, a new special entity is... born. It's traditionally called "an egregore", it doesn't have a physical body, although it may have many representations of itself - idols, monuments, pictures, symbols etc, and it does define its people's existance. However, this type of a god depends on his people as well, namely, it needs people's psychic (and/or mental) energy to feed and grow on - prayers, hymns, hard labor, thoughts, efforts and so on. Usually, but not always, gods like that need their flock to increase in number - it means more "food", more power and influence.
Gods like that are very numerous and different in "size" - from a world religion and "a nation", down to a small isolated community or a school class, these are all gods. And since most of them are proactive and need to grow, they do fight between themselves sometimes, and they have a lot of followers to send into battle who usually gladly kill each other to their gods' pleasure and glory.
#mythoughts