Regarding that notion, and the idea of non-duality discussed last week: I suspect that the gods do violate this axiom (as they are direct participants in the ever-elusive One), and indeed could arguably conceive of all other gods—indeed they must, as each one, being a self-perfect unit, effectively contains the cosmos. My hypothesis: It's at this level that logic beings to break down entirely, and in fact this is suggestive of the various "manifestations," for lack of a better word, of a god.

Example: Zeus is represented as having x-attribute in the myths. At the mythic level, this allows us, the naive listener, to have some simple purchase on the god, to envision, in terms we can readily understand, a particular quality that the god espouses, perhaps a peculiarity that is one of his pronounced idiosyncrasies. As we mature along the path, we begin to recognize more and more correspondences with a given deity, picking up on the various aspects of their person, largely through myths, symbols, and various other tokens—that is, through meditation. But then there is a point at which, as we enter into sustained philosophical reflection on these topics, that we begin to contemplate "the higher mysteries," for lack of a better term. We begin to recognize the tokens as a means whereby we can traverse the exceedingly (indeed, infinitely) complex landscape of Deity as it approaches The One—the ineffable and transcedent.

Slippery concepts to articulate, and may these words not provoke The Divine.