The "gods" in the Selinaverse are any kind of leaders or guideline-generators which a conscious organism's mind emits their utterances as thoughts for guidance. Gods spawn imaginary realities of one another using self reference and circular "strange" loops by using the gift of learning / pleasure / conception (or "knowledge").
Now at one point during their history, the Bajorans were introduced to the devices used to communicate with The Prophets, a race of timeless aliens, who identified gods using superlatives such as "The Emissary", "The Invisible", or "The Master". They started their millenia-long attempts to correlate the titles with the actual entities. At first, Vedek Bareil, one of the first Vedeks, who is also known as "The Damage", placed a staff in the ground and ordered all vedeks to never leave its vicinity. This got tiresome, so several decades later, Blanché broke the staff into two, announced that he is now a "Kai" and that Vedeks can travel as far as they want. The Bajorans ended up burning both parts of the staff to prevent them from becoming objects of worship.
The Bajorans actually worked better against The Prophets, than the rest of the galaxy initially worked against The Bajorans, taking into account the fact that there can be a different, say, "The Master" for a certain time and locality.
Quark, a Ferengi, set up his bar close to Bajor in order to profit from "the industry around the Bajoran prophecies [which] is making millions".
Author | Shlomi Fish |
Work | Original |
Published | 2021-07-05 |