[WP] 'What is a God?'

“What is a God?”

 Oh… not this lecture again. Was it really that time again already? Why did I keep popping in to this classroom. These humans repeated themselves so frequently that it was maddening checking in more than every few rotations or so… But it was time to align myself to their new forms of worship, and to maybe pick a follower or two…

“Yes, Jaymson,” the… teacher, or so they called her, continued.

“An immortal being beyond the imagination of man with immense power over…”

 I laughed, causing their mobile altars to flicker in the process, though none seemed to notice. It was quite comical. These humans had such naïve ideas about the Gods... Immense power indeed. I was lucky to be among the greater deities in this reality myself… but some, like poor lost Zeus, were lucky to make it across the divide these days. With no real worshippers and only ever referred to in fables… well… he wasn’t long for this phase. He’d really begun taking a shine to the littlings four phases over though… so maybe he’d continue to scrape by.

 I considered the satellites the humans had set above this world and began watching them from above. So many of them, and so many of that number dependent upon my life blood. They built monuments to me across the world, and every year more and more came to worship me. Not by any one name of course, but then, I had been more careful in threading myself to their worship, taking lessons I grudgingly acknowledge from the deity going by G O D here.

 Some younger deities enjoyed the thrill of presence, and would thread themselves to not only a name, but to a persona, an entity even, pouring extravagant gifts into the beings that curried favor with them… It was perhaps a failing of our kind, and reason we were less prolific than the beings that fed us. Capital G though… he’d threaded himself to the very idea of deital worship, something many of us could not believe had not been done before. So he wore many names, and took tributes and gifts from all over this phase… squeezing out the smaller deities that had chosen simpler concepts to take power from.

 It had taken some doing… and I’ll admit, some luck, but I was no longer afraid to cross the divide now that my followers had provided me with so much devotion. I liked to think I rivaled the big G, but there was no need to test that yet. Ahh… Those humans seem open… Perhaps I would find another Larry and Sergey yet…