I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
People worship gods IMC for the same reason people have kings: having a representative of a complex idea is convinient and expedient.
Want to see the state of the kingdom? Take a look at the royal. Want to see the state of nature? Take a look at the nature god. You don't go to the king's palace looking like a slob, and you don't go to a god's temple without puttin' on your Sunday best.
Works REALLY well for God-Kings.
Gods are of a class of power that all but the rarest of great heroes can hope to touch. And by the time they do, they are worshiped.
It doesn't take deific power IRL to get worshipped. It takes being representative, it takes being convincing, it takes being Tom Cruise. Being 500 ft. tall and able to crush your farm seems like a pretty good reason, given how prone humans are to worshiping icons.
(and that's not to knock RL religions at all. Even if you faith is the One True Faith, not everyone follows it, which means other humans worship things that aren't True just because those things are kind of cool or whatever).
Want to see the state of the kingdom? Take a look at the royal. Want to see the state of nature? Take a look at the nature god. You don't go to the king's palace looking like a slob, and you don't go to a god's temple without puttin' on your Sunday best.
Works REALLY well for God-Kings.
Gods are of a class of power that all but the rarest of great heroes can hope to touch. And by the time they do, they are worshiped.
It doesn't take deific power IRL to get worshipped. It takes being representative, it takes being convincing, it takes being Tom Cruise. Being 500 ft. tall and able to crush your farm seems like a pretty good reason, given how prone humans are to worshiping icons.
(and that's not to knock RL religions at all. Even if you faith is the One True Faith, not everyone follows it, which means other humans worship things that aren't True just because those things are kind of cool or whatever).
