Yato Day 2025 – Prime Minister's statement
Greetings to our fellow micronationalists and the rest of humanity. As the Philippine Christmas season is 21 days from today, the Royal Government of Curimae wishes Yato a happy birthday, even if he is outside our local universe. While he may not have significant recognition of his existence in his local universe, as defined in the Japanese anime series Noragami, we in our local universe recognize his existence in the multiverse. To us, Yato is a real person, considering the infinite vastness of the cosmos. We hope that Yato senses that another universe recognizes his godhood.
The Royal Government of Curimae would like to define who Yato is. Yato, originally Yaboku, started as a god of war or god of calamity due to desperation about his purpose as a god. As war become less frequent, so did the associated spiritual entities. As Yaboku became desperate to continue his existence, as deities as defined in Noragami require human belief to exist, he switched domains from being a god or calamity to a god of fortune. Yaboku also renamed himself Yato and has been disowning the name “Yaboku” ever since. Yato’s example demonstrates how deities, spiritual, or otherwise supernatural entities may change forms and domains over time. It is also important to notice that Yato’s world is strongly reminiscent of the kami of the Shinto faith, animistic belief systems of the Japanese.
The Royal Government of Curimae also treats Yato’s example as a part of how human beliefs and religions are subject to change over time. Sometimes, what’s dominant among human faith is not always the most optimal method to seek answers to issues that materialism is unable to explain. Human history has proven that deities and other supernatural entities are neither infallible nor omnipotent and that they are subject to limitations and evolution. Numerous “infallible” or “omnipotent” deitites have gone out of relevance and retired into the pages of mythology books, as people changed their beliefs over the thousands of years.
No conceivable divine, spiritual, or supernatural authority is ever “absolute.” Each civilization that ever exists has its own divinity or supernatural authority. Infallibility and omnipotence are ultimately human constructs, as humanity since the advent of organized religions seeks deities or spirits that have as few loopholes as possible, perhaps to prevent challenges to their faiths. A non-human civilization or a non-subsciber to a particular religion can easier see the flaws and limitations of the deities of the beliefs that they do not subscribe to.
The “distinction” between the divine and the mortal realms is clearly a mortal construct, invented by earthly mortal beings who insist on separating their chosen deities from the deities’ corresponding domains. The multiverse does not recognize such distinctions. Instead, it decides who stays as a “mortal being” and who among “mortals” becomes a “spiritual” or a “divine” being; likewise, the multiverse also decides who stays as a “spiritual” or “divine” being and who among supernatural entities becomes a “mortal” being. It is important to know our place in the multiverse. For example, when we are a mortal being, we have to comply with mortal constraints, such as the need for food and water or the instinct to prioritize comfort; likewise, when we are a “divine being,” we have to comply with the corresponding constraints of godhood.
Godhood or divinity is not absolute and the multiverse implements something of a sandboxing principle so that no single entity dominates all and that everyone has a chance to seek alternative divine or spiritual guidance. As for this sandboxing principle, even so-called “all-powerful” deities, as in Sun Wukong or Arceus, have maximum limitations that they can never overcome even with all their powers at their highest levels. The sandboxing principle could also explain why we have so many belief systems with different sets of spirits and pantheons.
Last but not least, the only all-knowing, all-powerful, and infallible being is the multiverse itself.
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