The Hindus, the Norse Pantheon, the lapsed Greco-Roman set... you name it, they're probably all in there somewhere. Especially the Norse, if you wann talk fractious...
Oh, and don't forget the thousand+ minor deities and watchful spirits of Tibetan Hinayana Buddhism. They all chipped in, too, I betcha!
And in a reference to Kick's comment... and this is just ONE PLANET! Woo-hoo!
If you take into consideration the fact that Thomas Edison is the Shinto god of electricity, does that make all human inventors deities? My dad's former boss claims to have invented paint-by-number...
Yup! Clear as mud! Shiny, happy, sparkly mud, mind you (given that each of the various Independent Deific Contractors would each want to put on their best displays), but still mud!
So, wait, are you espousing for hordes of Great Big Enormous Independent Deific Contractors, or are you going for Beings So Luminously Small And Multitudinous that they each qualify as sub-atomic particles?
Hrmm, I think you might've solved the Grand-Unified Theory problem... ;-)
pantheism it is, then
Date: 2006-03-07 07:09 pm (UTC)Heh.
Re: pantheism it is, then
Date: 2006-03-07 11:48 pm (UTC)Oh, and don't forget the thousand+ minor deities and watchful spirits of Tibetan Hinayana Buddhism. They all chipped in, too, I betcha!
And in a reference to Kick's comment... and this is just ONE PLANET! Woo-hoo!
Re: pantheism it is, then
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Date: 2006-03-07 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-07 11:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-08 12:54 am (UTC)Especially shiny, happy, sparkly mud. It's the kind that stays between the cracks even after the shower.
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Date: 2006-03-07 08:30 pm (UTC)The universe was created by an infinite number of committees, all pulling in opposing directions.
Yup, sounds like good old random chance to me! :D
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Date: 2006-03-07 11:51 pm (UTC)Hrmm, I think you might've solved the Grand-Unified Theory problem... ;-)