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What is a god? While the question is simple enough, the answer depends on context and perspective. For those raised in the shadow of the great monotheisms — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — the god category has a singular member who is the creator and perfect unchallenged ruler of the cosmos. For most other modern religious traditions, gods are multiple and variable.

Rather than being a matter of biology, a “god” is a culturally conditioned category. Humans tend to subdivide the world into distinct domains — such as persons, animals, plants, natural objects, and artifacts — and tend to have strong expectations about them. While some may be more or less fixed across cultures, others — like gods — vary considerably, leading to misunderstanding and even repulsion when others do not mirror their own (e.g., the demonization of Hindu gods by European Christians) [anetoday.org] .