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Gods bind and gather beings, letting beings be the beings they are (§3.30). They emerge with and work to clear the clearing for a group (§3.16). The onto-theological is an expression of how beings appear — as a whole and gathered together (§3.16). Thus, the onto-theological is an aspect of ontology.
The onto-theological grants and expresses the way of being of a disclosure (§3.16). Over time, the worlds within which particular gods came to prominence change, and, if the world can’t support them, they become a remnant of it.
Gods don’t die: though immortal, they aren’t eternal (§3.1, §3.39). It’s not that they’re forgotten (§3.1, §3.39); it’s that the context—the world—within which they thrived and derived power has changed: it no longer supports them (in part, because they no longer support it).
Because the world has changed, even if gods were recalled, they wouldn’t be the same as they were before. Gods, like everything, change. Thus, while not mortals, they face a death-like fate: abandoned by a world that can no longer support them, they slip into obscurity. And yet, it’s possible to learn something about gods, even if they’re abandoned.