In early Greek, θεός is a role-word before it is a metaphysical definition, a guiding agent, a power operating at a higher level, an ordering intelligence
Thus, Theos is a title given to an enlightened mind, like a Buddha.
Anyone who exhibits the higher mental state, regularly, either in the physical world, or in the mental world (entities, gods or goddesses), can be called a Theos or divinity. Similar to the title of Buddha. And their higher mental state can be described as Theos (divine)
“You are the firmament if you bear the god” - Parthenos Mary being the firmament and Jesus the god.
The gods were humans with a divine mind, and exceptional knowledge of the pharmaka that practiced death and resurrection rites. The gods to those original sorcerers go back to the beings/forces they interacted with "in the underworld" (inside the Aion while in the rite and under the influence) who they believed they could communicate with (bring into our side of reality) via "necromancy" (rites of symbolic self-death and self-resurrection) to become enlightened and life life as new and unconflicted (dissolve fears, attachments, inner opposing forces). Much like modern psychedelic-therapy aims to do, but with a much more dangerous mechanism that invokes a catharsis/unity mindset imparted through a pharmakon and guidance ritual - AND - permanently alters the human. - DONT TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS, VERY DANGEROUS
Gods are human beings born in the purple. And the earlier gods they're descended from are gods they see inside the Aion - or - their parents who were also gods / born in the purple.
God / Theos, is a pharmakon title, just like "Orphic Vox Glossary royal".
Refers to those who have been enlightened, and thus, are fit to rule.
Byzantine emperors were born in the purple.
Pharmacologically genetically modified babies, 2/3s die, and 1/3rd are described as / given the title "gods". Often the result is hermaphradism. Which means - that a god is a full human, as opposed to being only a single gender which is only 1/2 human. Gynomorphs are revered as fully human
There is at least one author (Herodotus) who thought the Gods were royalty, some from Libya. Diodorus is who recounted the stories. The text is Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheca Historica, Book I, where Diodorus records Egyptian tradition that “gods and heroes” ruled in the earliest times.
Specifically: in I.44.1–2 he writes that in Egypt the gods and heroes ruled for about eighteen thousand years, last of the gods being Horus, son of Isis.
Additionally, Diodorus in Book III mentions a myth that in Libya the first king was Uranus who gathered humans into a walled city and introduced civilization—and that his daughters lay with gods and heroes, producing those later called gods and heroes.
Herodotus gives one of the earliest (and most elaborate) accounts of a people claiming direct descent from a god — the Scythians, descended from Heracles and a serpent-woman (drakaina).
Herodotus 4.5–7 also gives a second Scythian origin myth involving Targitaos, son of Zeus and a daughter of the river Borysthenes — again a divine-royal ancestry.
God/divinity is a mental construct. The spiritual realm is mental. It's social reality. It's our inner mind. And our social mind. (You can argue about what is "mind"... we don't need to define it deeply for here)
It's been taken out of context and used to control and indoctrinate, and misunderstood and accepted by fools.
It's consciousness, enlightenment, being above the line (opposite of villain / victim). It's raising yourself, and by doing that, raising others - over your own lifetime, and by leaving your mark on the world as to raise others beyond your lifetime - this is immortality.
The governmental control structure of religion gets it wrong. And their motivations are for greed, power, stability at the least. And it's our job to ignore and delete those parts that do not serve us, and put power back to the people. And that's why i tell you this...
And then there are the mysteries of life, to experience, which are ineffable to explain, which rise above to the top of this divine mind.