Thread:AbysmalShadows/@comment-1493741-20151117010054/@comment-2089817-20151117211137

Honestly, what this entire argument boils down to is one of the greatest questions of them all: who came first, the chicken or the egg? Or, as a more fitting question, who spawned who? Did gods and spirits always exist, and as Z said, humans caught glimpses of them and that's how mythologies and religions and folk stories all started? Or was it that the beliefs of people in certain things "gave birth" to gods. In other words, did gods/spirits give birth to the legends, or did the legends people came up with give birth to gods/spirits?

This is an important distinction to make. If people gave birth to the deities via their own beliefs and hearts, then Void's premise about multiple realms hosting these various pantheons and mythologies is spot on. However, if these spirits and their involvement with the human world gave rise to the legends revolving around gods and whatnot, then Z's premise about Soul Society being the sole afterlife makes a bit more sense.

This is the question you guys need to settle first, otherwise arguing about what facts Kubo gives us or what the statistics say is downright meaningless. In regards to the question I posed above, what does the Bleach manga help support which outcome makes the most sense?