My Greek is bad and I just made up term to be silly. I don't want to comment on it, but I get the feeling that you won't let me escape without a thorough explanation of the silly business. There are two meanings I was trying to get through with the term Omotheology.



In modern usage theology is the study of religion, but it literally comes form the Greek theo (god) + logia (sayings, oracles or uttering.etc.). The Greek word of theologia was usually used to describe oracle utterings and the like. To the ancient Greeks the oracle of Delphi and others were direct links to the gods and these oracle sayings were written down and studied. Over time, of course, this term begin to be used to describe any writings concerning divine matters, prophecy or no, and you can easily see how it led to it's modern usage. Now, using the modern word the term Omotheology could mean the "study of shoulder religion", in a bad butchered Greek way. Thus Pinkie Pie's angel and devil telling her to do this or that is a type of shoulder religion.



But going deeper, using the original Greek meaning of theologia, we could say that the term Omotheology refers to shoulder oracles or shoulder divine utterings. The oracle of Delphi was said to have told Socrates that daemons (a Greek term for spirits) went between gods and men acting as intermediaries, taking sacrifices and things to the gods and telling men the will or sayings of the gods. This is very similar to the latter idea of more dualistic forms of Christian religion, angels and demons act out the will of their respective powers. Thus the second meaning of Omotheology could be "shoulder divine sayings", with the Rarity shoulder Angel and Devil as daemons whispering the words of divinities in the ears of ponies.