What is... God? [ Open ]

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Cielo had come to the Media Library in hopes of finding something out about the pods they all popped out of. He wanted... needed to find his comrades. There were people here, and they've all been nice to him so far, putting up with his seemingly endless stream of questions. There were people, but they weren't his people. Just as he had never seen the sun, he'd never been without his tribe. The thought seemed... impossible. To him it was impossible. So if it was impossible then the rest of them were there. Somewhere.

Simple as that.

So he slipped into an empty pod room and plopped down so he was sitting cross legged, wondering if this was some sort of Dissemination Machine. Before he could do anything he was hit with a familiar hunger pain that churned his stomach and made the back of his throat taste sour. He gripped his right thigh and pressed against the Atma that burned there, pulsing faintly before fading as he shoved that hunger down.

Dyaus was hungry.

Luckily, he didn't feel like he was going to loose control. Whatever was in that stuff the ship fed him helped at least somewhat, but whatever it was it wasn't alive. So it wasn't enough.

"Ain't gonna be eatin' our buddies now, eh?" A chuckle, then a sigh. "Wish I knew what-"

द्यौष्पितृ
Dyaus Pita

1. (Hinduism) In the Vedic religion, the Sky Father,
   • 1998, Ramacharaka, Yogi Ramacharaka, The Philosophies and Religions of India, Kessinger Publishing, p. 250:

   Thus in the early Vedas we find records of Dyaus-Pita, or “Father-Heaven,” accompanied by Prithvi or “Mother-Earth”; also Ushas or “Dawn-Goddess”; Vayu or the “Wind-God”; and Agni, the “Fire-god”. Companion to Varuna, the "God of the Celestial Ocean and Keeper of Law."
   

"What, what, huh??!!" Cielo scrambled when the screen popped on with information that just didn't seem real. "No way! How you know all dat? Is dat what we are?"

Avatar

In Hinduism, Avatar or Avatara , often translated as 'incarnation', literally means descent (avatarati) and usually implies a deliberate descent of a god from the higher spiritual realms to lower realms of existence for special purposes.

Cielo furrowed his brow, this didn't make any sense at all. He didn't know who God was, but Sera always spoke of him as something else. Something...bigger. "But I t'ought we was demons. Not gods."

Asura

In Hinduism, the Asura are a group of power-seeking deities, sometimes referred to as demons in later years. They were opposite to the Devas. The earliest texts have the Asuras presiding over moral and social phenomena (Varuna) and the Devas presiding over natural phenomena (Vayu).

So that's what an Asua is? That was... good right? He was still having trouble understanding but none of that shone any bad lights on what they had been turned in to. But then , didn't say anything about them having to devour living beings for sustenance. Then the screen changed again, this time without him even asking any questions.

Distortion

An unwanted change that results in a misrepresentation and/or malformation of what had been initially intended.

Well, certainly didn't help ease the sour pit of his stomach in the least bit.