>>17181607it's probably some Mahayana themed, shamanism influenced bullshit. Not related to the Pali Canon in any way, because they surely do not appear anywhere in there so they must be a later addition. Also - diety worship is Mahayana's property, so it's all just meme magic and lots of misguiding pilpul conterproductive to cultivating the 8-fold path
tl;dr it's all bullcrap