On the topic that gods can die, your implied question got me thinking about if for half the day, and I suppose it depends on what you mean by "god."
Per Plotinus, the highest gods themselves are all eternal and can't die, but we can't interact with them directly: we need to go through the intermediary of angels of various degrees. Now, while the higher part of an angel is eternal, their lower parts must be in the sensible world, or else how would they interact with us? But if they have a part in the sensible world, it is subject to time, and can be born and age and die.
Another way to put that is that inspiration, say, is eternal, but Apollo was a particular manifestation of inspiration geared towards a particular region and culture, and He gracefully yielded His Pythian hexameters when His time came. The angel's soul remains, but it sheds it's old body and takes a new one, suited to a new region and culture and time.
This is all to say, yes, I think there's a nugget of something there.
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Per Plotinus, the highest gods themselves are all eternal and can't die, but we can't interact with them directly: we need to go through the intermediary of angels of various degrees. Now, while the higher part of an angel is eternal, their lower parts must be in the sensible world, or else how would they interact with us? But if they have a part in the sensible world, it is subject to time, and can be born and age and die.
Another way to put that is that inspiration, say, is eternal, but Apollo was a particular manifestation of inspiration geared towards a particular region and culture, and He gracefully yielded His Pythian hexameters when His time came. The angel's soul remains, but it sheds it's old body and takes a new one, suited to a new region and culture and time.
This is all to say, yes, I think there's a nugget of something there.