Yeah, we have Okina, but what about Hecatia?

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the old guy:
Touhou already has a race of Gods like that. We know them as the Lunarians, who are based on the heavenly deities of Shintoism. Eirin is based on Omoikane, the god of wisdom, for example.

TresserT:
It's hard to say for sure since Hecatia's the only western god we've seen (unless you want to count Shinki but lol Shinki). All we really know is that she's stronger than anyone in Gensokyo or the Lunar Capital. Whether Greek gods are stronger than Shinto gods is never really addressed or implied. We just know that Hecatia specifically is.

the old guy:
To answer the question of why Hecatia is so powerful, its because she is that way in Greek Myth too.

Hecate was one of the Titans, who existed before the Olympians, and IIRC, even Zeus respected her, as she fought against the other Titans. She was considered very important to the Greeks and was the god of Magic.

She's a pretty big deal.

myon:
Hecatia's power can be measured in two things;

- Her achievements according to Greek mythology, as the old guy said above. Aswell as that, there is also her associations; she is according to ancient.eu associated with death, witchcraft/magic and dark creatures to mention a few. She was also very prevalent in ancient greek culture, seeing how her depictions tended to pop up in nearly every corner of the many cities, from entrance ports to private homes. So if faith is the powerup juice of gods, Hecate/Hecatia had in her glory days a giant pool of it,

- Her taste in fashion is quite powerful and is able to leave any mortal man or woman weak for days.

Drake:
To add to that, as I recently explained in some reddit thread, Hecatia is portrayed as being a top dog in Hell because traditionally she resides in the Underworld. The reason that she distinguishes between gods in AFiEU is because a "god" in the Touhou setting is typically referring to the Shinto concept of kami, which are defined by how they exist. Meanwhile Hecatia saying that she's called a god because she's really strong seems to be more of a statement on ZUN's part that his interpretation of Greek myth is that gods are gods because of their powers and not because they have some existential properties that make them that way. Whether or not that's super accurate to the actual mythology you can probably see what he's going for by making that divide.

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