{"id":3272,"date":"2017-09-23T18:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T22:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2017-09-23T18:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T22:21:23","slug":"simplifying-symmetry-the-elder-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3272","title":{"rendered":"Simplifying, symmetry, the Elder Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terry Pratchett puts it very succinctly in Small Gods<\/b>:<\/p>\n

\nThere are billions of gods in the world. They swarm as thick as herring roe. Most of them are too small to see and never get worshipped, at least by anything bigger than bacteria, who never say their prayers and don’t demand much in the way of miracles.<\/p>\n

\nThey are the small gods—the spirits of places where two ant trails cross, the gods of microclimates down between the grass roots. And most of them stay that way.<\/p>\n

\nBecause what they lack is belief<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\n…what gods need is belief, and what humans want is gods. (pg. 11)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The big thundery gods stay visible, buoyed by legions of believers and serviced by hiererchies of acolytes. The lesser gods may be shrunken, and many are simply in occlusion, mostly hidden from sight and sometimes shrunk to vestigiality by dearth of believers. Sometimes they can be found in the interstitial spaces…<\/p>\n

\nHere’s one:
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