Talk:懺悔参り (Zange Mairi)/@comment-2606:6000:FCC5:C300:48F0:8AD0:2EB4:584C-20190428232516

There's a god that a lot of people pray to. It's unsure if this god created the world or not, but nevertheless, this god is very significant to the culture within the world, and he has a lot of followers who pray to him. Their prayers are meaningless, however, as this god is powerless to do anything.

"Please, oh please don’t pray,

don’t wish for anything for your own sake

(because) I can’t do anything."

This god is also lonely, because there is no heaven for people to go to after death (I assume this is the Shinto religion), so all he can do for any sort of companionship is watch his followers go about their lives. This results in a repeating cycle of depression and loneliness as he watches his followers pray to him and believing in him, despite this god being powerless to affect the human world.