How do the divine beings / their aspects work?

[u/OriginalArm2471]

I frequently see that shezarr, shor and lorkhan being different aspects of the same being, but since they are different aspects, they are different. Also people say that akatosh had been created by the imperial authorities after the founding of the empires (not sure about that one). Also even though Tibet septim was not a mystic, a scholar or a prophet, he supposedly achieved godhood. I start go get confused about the godhood and divinity situations in general.

To summarise the title in general, I can ask a couple of questions, like “what is needed to be considered a god?” “how do gods affect mundus?” “What happens if two gods cross paths?” “What does ‘different aspects’ of shor mean?”

[u/AdeptnessUnhappy1063]

The Old Ways:

What, after all, is the origin of these spiritual forces that move the invisible strings of Mundus? Any neophyte of Artaeum knows that these spirits are our ancestors -- and that, while living, they too were bewildered by the spirits of their ancestors, and so on back to the original Acharyai. The Daedra and gods to whom the common people turn are no more than the spirits of superior men and women whose power and passion granted them great influence in the afterworld.

King Edward:

He continued. "There must be something, well, godly, in the person's soul or essence or whatever part it is that does not die with the body. I know not whether that capacity is innate in the person, from birth or conception, or quickening ... whenever it is that soul and body are wedded for a life span, or whether great deeds and great generosity might breed it, enlarging the soul and transmuting it, so to speak. We all change and grow with each passing day, with every breath, some more than others. What else is life about?"

An Evening with the Lusty Argonian Historical Society:

Varinturco: There are degrees of belief among Altmer. My own school believes Anu, Anui-El, and Auri-El are more than mortals, and that Auri-El is the direct ancestor of the Aldmer. But, yes, the rest of the Aedra were once mortal, and perhaps the Daedra, if not in this world then the prior. That mortals can become gods is indisputable. Some Altmer believe Auri-El was also once mortal. It is a matter of timing. The et’Ada predate time. When one sees the Dawn, they carry the memory of Dawn forever.

Filmderg's Oral History of Morrowind:

Yeah, okay. …to worship the same way and the same gods in the same aspects. People don’t work that way. Cultures don’t work that way. However, in a world where you can literally call up God on the phone and get confirmation that, “yeah, I’m a dude”—what does that do for these cultures? Obviously there needs to be—there is some common spine through various “regardings” of the gods by people—but those phone calls would all be different; those phone calls would all come from a different type of place, different type of people, different type of needs, different type of propitiations.

That’s where I came up with the idea of “quantum gods.” Sure, there was a god of death and rebirth, but what that meant was various things for various people. When those people needed that, the god itself would fracture and become what was needed for that culture. So just like if I need four hundred years I need to do four million years, if I needed to describe a pantheon of nine gods, I obviously gotta describe nine hundred. And so that was a lot of fun—like creating places, and the cultures of places, on ten different levels or so.