Quote:My answer -- which is not necessarily congruent with Chris' answer, should he have one -- is that Kami-Sama isn't pan-universal. It's a position, a job, like a team leader, and different Overselves take the role in different universes. As for Yggdrasil, well, in the OMG skein of universes, the "game rules" the gods play by have them throttled back a whole lot. Yggdrasil is a prop or a tool that lets them be that close to mortal and still have access to their usual level of power when they absolutely need it.
If Kami-sama is the ultimate god, creator, etc of the universe in OMB - in other words, if he's essentially the Judeo/Christian omniscient/unlimited God - then why does he have any of the celestials in the first place? Why does he have Yggdrasil? Where does Kami-sama stop and Yggdrasil begin?
Note that this is just my interpretation, and Chris' Mileage May Vary. Then again, by the terms of my own cosmology, both of us can be right without either of us being wrong -- everything about the gods which is understandable by mortals is nothing more than a convenient converter/filter/metaphor for an utterly ineffable truth that is so far beyond human comprehension that it doesn't blow your mind Cthulhu-style, it can't even be perceived.-- Bob
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Chaos isn't really chaos if it isn't Lawful part of the time.