During the writing of the previous post I checked back at a some of the older work on the "Ultimates Version", and I've noticed a number of inconsistencies that have already slipped in (notably references to non-human deities and monotheism). That's probably inevitable when you work on things over time.
They also illustrate a massive danger when working on a big project like this: the temptation to go back and fix the inconsistencies as you go. The problem is that if you do that you end up going on to fix "one more thing"... and one more, and another, and so on. And so forward progress largely becomes impossible.
So, I won't be doing that. Best to try to ignore any inconsistencies for now - just assume that later stuff always supersedes the old. (One of the better bits of advice I got in school came from an English teacher, who advised just getting an essay written in any form. Once that's done, it's much easier to redraft, since at least all the ideas you need are out there for you to see.)
These posts are very much a first draft anyway. Eventually, I hope to gather them all up and write up the whole thing in some final version.
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