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Soooo I've been informed the goddess being one of the Downstreamers is a fan theory and that she's likely above them. And furthermore, there's some evidence as to what degree she is above them.
"We can explore the manifold. We can Map to other realities. Other possibilities. You don't have to send a whole Moon to do that." Mane pondered. "But what is there to look for?" "In fact there is a valid goal," Babo said carefully. The Astrologers, he told Manekato, believed that the universe ― any given universe ― was a fundamentally comprehensible system. If a system was comprehensible, then an entity must exist that could comprehend the entire universe, arbitrarily well ― or rather She must exist, as Babo put it. "The God of the Manifold," Manekato said dryly. The catch was that there was a manifold of possible universes, of which this was only one. So She may not exist in this universe. Anyhow, it ― She ― was to be the ultimate goal of the Daemons' quest. "Of course," Babo said, "She may actually be an expression of the manifold itself ― or perhaps the manifold itself, the greater structure of reality strands, is itself self-referential, in some sense conscious. Or perhaps the manifold is itself merely one thread in a greater tapestry-" "A manifold of manifolds." "And perhaps there is a further recursion of structure, no end to the hierarchies of life and mind, which-"
So even the manifold of the Downstreamers is part of her "manifold of manifolds" and there is "no end to the hierarchies"
This seems pretty blatantly high 1-A...
"We can explore the manifold. We can Map to other realities. Other possibilities. You don't have to send a whole Moon to do that." Mane pondered. "But what is there to look for?" "In fact there is a valid goal," Babo said carefully. The Astrologers, he told Manekato, believed that the universe ― any given universe ― was a fundamentally comprehensible system. If a system was comprehensible, then an entity must exist that could comprehend the entire universe, arbitrarily well ― or rather She must exist, as Babo put it. "The God of the Manifold," Manekato said dryly. The catch was that there was a manifold of possible universes, of which this was only one. So She may not exist in this universe. Anyhow, it ― She ― was to be the ultimate goal of the Daemons' quest. "Of course," Babo said, "She may actually be an expression of the manifold itself ― or perhaps the manifold itself, the greater structure of reality strands, is itself self-referential, in some sense conscious. Or perhaps the manifold is itself merely one thread in a greater tapestry-" "A manifold of manifolds." "And perhaps there is a further recursion of structure, no end to the hierarchies of life and mind, which-"
So even the manifold of the Downstreamers is part of her "manifold of manifolds" and there is "no end to the hierarchies"
This seems pretty blatantly high 1-A...