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Post Diminutive Deities 2016-10-21 09:04:32 Post No. 49885706
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Reading "small gods" by terry pratchett and watching episode two (the dew god's small shrine) of natsume yuujinchou has given me an animism boner, so I am
going to ramble on and request pictures of diminutive gods.
Both Natsume and Small Gods give subtly different explanations for how gods rise to power. In "small gods" there are thousands of microscopic gods in any given place and they rise whenever someone gives general belief to any spirit in the area (I imagine they need to fight over that scrap of belief so that one rises above the others) and then it snowballs. In natsume yuujinchou, a spirit takes up residence in an empty shrine, and then a coincidence happens where a person prays at the shrine and then their prayer comes true for unrelated reasons, giving major belief to the spirit (now god) and giving them power. while they both essentially start out as tutelaries, they become specialized as they gain power, becoming rain gods, war gods, etc.
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>>49885706
conversely, they both give examples of gods who fall from power. Small Gods has deities slowly forgetting who they are (as exemplified by Om living as a tortoise for three years). Natsume has the much more interesting implication (I don't believe this is directly stated, though) that, due to the god not having enough power, the god's domain turns to less important or demanding things (going from being a rain god to a dew god, for instance). in addition, both show the god as becoming physically smaller (as physical as you can be with a god), to the point of being tortoise or tom thumb sized.
If people have actually read this far, I have become enamored with both the concept of both tutelary deities (on one end of the divine lifecycle) and the concept of gods who have taken a smaller version of their previous domain (on the other end). I especially enjoy the extremes of these, such as a god of a small clearing, or a sun god who can now only light a lantern. if I can make specific requests, I would prefer those sorts of pictures.
P.S. I realize that one could call gods so small spirits, but I think the word god is way better than spirit. also, god evokes something to be worshiped, while spirit is just something generic.
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>>49885716
starting cause this isn't /r/
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P.P.S.I should have said I prefer cute, but doesn't everyone? just post what you got, I don't want to be too picky.
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>>49885706
Gods of technology and cities. People base their identities off of where they are born, what sports teams are there and aspects of the city they can wear with pride.
Like wise, various electronics incarnate as gods due to their ubiquity and importance so you have gods of cell phones and laptops as well as computers with varying degrees of personality. It's not unusual to think that even brand names incarnate as well.
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>>49885760
reminds me of the god of CDs in kamichu. Alas, google fails me right now and also I need to sleep.
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Hey. Pssst.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/33915461/
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dead link
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>>49890640
>Small god
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>>49890640
Strange, it works for me.
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>>49890794
A bunch of servers on the east coast of the US are being DDOS'd hard atm, so suptg might be down or the server that particular chunk of the archive is on might be down - it's also down for me right now.
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