@king_stranglehold_da_first: @pooty:I do not believe the idea of how the title of sky-father you guys are discussing is as cut and dry as you are trying to be. One of the points, King brought about creation was interesting but it's been contradicted fair few times in comics just as well. Most commonplace would be at elder gods mythology which says something very different than what you guys discussed. The idea there is that skyfather beings were created out of the energies of Elder Gods that Atum consumed when he came into earth to protect humans from ender gods.
Do you get a contradiction there? Because this suggests humanity existed before pantheons and respective skyfathers were even born. So the creation argument might not be valid because there was no creation to be made when skyfathers were skyfathers. They had no hand in creating humans because they were created before skyfather were born. In fact, these origin stories actually makes humans the creators of pantheons.
If either of you are interested, the origin story of how humans were responsible to create skyfather, it's showned in detail in Thor Annual # 9.
The creation part that you often see in Thor comics likely are just there as a nod to their original mythos. I do not belive that defines who or what Skyfathers are. Not to mention neither Odin nor Zeus were the first gods to be born , nor where they the first skyfathers.
It's a rather tricky thing to answer, and i really don't think either of you could come up with a universally convincing answer, in regards to what precisely makes a skyfather because of so many contradicts that exists from author to author. I have always been of the opinion that skyfather is merely a title given to the respective heads of the pantheons. The equality in power arguments comes from the idea that marvel would not be prejudice on one pantheon over another, and are likely to make them all equal.
We see this when we see say Odin and Zues are compared; or the respective hell lords from the pantheons are compared in the form of Hela and Pluto. They are often potrayed equal. They've actually fought each others in the past too.
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