> devas, which term is understood as meaning "deities," but which, in effect, means the "shining ones," an apt term for heavenly bodies. uh no and yes, entities of this type glow from the inside. they are not planets. they are luminous balls of sentient gas that can take physical form. pic related is an igigi bird-human chimera that is allied with the devas. as you can see, he is literally glowing from the inside.  there are three layers to meta-reality. the outermost one consists of sentient light, containing the three ur-gods of the indoeuropean pantheon. the second middle one contains beings of sentient gas. the third one is our physical reality.
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