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As for Allah K. Swit, he must have been one of their tribal deities.
In the Religion and Festivals section, for example, one finds among pictures of Buddhas and Shinto deities (see Ogata Korin, Gods of Wind and Thunder ) a large ink-brushed hanging scroll depicting nothing but vegetables (Ito Jakuchu, Vegetable parinirvana , circa 1780).
Before you dismiss all this as the mere “myth” of Japan’s origins, remember that the Japanese continued to trace the imperial dynasty directly back to those deities until Emperor Hirohito in 1946 denounced “the false conception that the emperor is divine. ”
It was finally abandoned towards the fourth century a.d. when the country looked to a new group of deities.
The same was true of all other Internet companies whose option-holding executives must have been thanking their personal deities for the Asian crisis.