Let us imagine a fictitious world in which there are five Pagan gods: (1) an Arachnid (Tick), (2) a Female-Human-Athlete, (3) a Bear, (4) a Cow (no horns), and (5) a Wyvern-bird. Then there are common people who have a choice to worship either one god, multiple gods, or none of them.
Now, worshippers who want to worship only one of these gods need a method to "channel" their worship to the proper god. What better way than to set up an idol that resembles the god being worshipped?
The Pagan scholars in the town temple have an argument about how the universe is deciding which god to send the worshipper's worship to. Some scholars/shamans are of the view that the color of the idol matters, others are of the view the building material of the idol matters, and others still are of the view that the element (Earth, Fire, Air, Ether, or Water) that surrounds the idol determines which god the worship is sent to.
Nothing is decided until a young boy walks in and notes that four of the gods have the same number of extremities (which is 5), while the Tick has 9 (8 legs and 1 snout). [The spine and everything in line with it (head and tail) count as the same extremity.] Then, the Pagan scholars finally have a eureka moment and realize why a certain god-king is going around trying to smash all their idols - he actually works for the Tick-Arachnid!
See the Arachnid, in our fictitious world, had realized that very few people worship it because they find its form grotesque. To get around this problem, it decided to smash all of the idols; so, a more "transcendental" form of worship is shared among all five gods.
But the sad part was, in addition to being dark and ugly, the Arachnid was also greedy. So, it was not happy with just sharing 20% of the worship while it can receive a much larger share by introducing icons into society which have 9 extremities.
Finally the unfortunate previous Pagans in this "fictitious" world (having lost all their idols and brainwashed into believing idol worship is stupid) were being forced to send their worship to only the Tick Arachnid through the 9-extremitied icons it had proliferated into society.
When I can, I will post pictures to teach Pagans in our world how to count the extremities of an idol so they do not end up like the duped people in this story. This is my last new thread for a while, but I will respond to criticism and questions for the 3 threads I posted today when I can.
:=(::B)::B)::B)::B):
Now, worshippers who want to worship only one of these gods need a method to "channel" their worship to the proper god. What better way than to set up an idol that resembles the god being worshipped?
The Pagan scholars in the town temple have an argument about how the universe is deciding which god to send the worshipper's worship to. Some scholars/shamans are of the view that the color of the idol matters, others are of the view the building material of the idol matters, and others still are of the view that the element (Earth, Fire, Air, Ether, or Water) that surrounds the idol determines which god the worship is sent to.
Nothing is decided until a young boy walks in and notes that four of the gods have the same number of extremities (which is 5), while the Tick has 9 (8 legs and 1 snout). [The spine and everything in line with it (head and tail) count as the same extremity.] Then, the Pagan scholars finally have a eureka moment and realize why a certain god-king is going around trying to smash all their idols - he actually works for the Tick-Arachnid!
See the Arachnid, in our fictitious world, had realized that very few people worship it because they find its form grotesque. To get around this problem, it decided to smash all of the idols; so, a more "transcendental" form of worship is shared among all five gods.
But the sad part was, in addition to being dark and ugly, the Arachnid was also greedy. So, it was not happy with just sharing 20% of the worship while it can receive a much larger share by introducing icons into society which have 9 extremities.
Finally the unfortunate previous Pagans in this "fictitious" world (having lost all their idols and brainwashed into believing idol worship is stupid) were being forced to send their worship to only the Tick Arachnid through the 9-extremitied icons it had proliferated into society.
When I can, I will post pictures to teach Pagans in our world how to count the extremities of an idol so they do not end up like the duped people in this story. This is my last new thread for a while, but I will respond to criticism and questions for the 3 threads I posted today when I can.
:=(::B)::B)::B)::B):
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