>>90268179You make some solid, excellent points. However, Gaiman indicated that the Endless were not, per se, gods but rather, in many respects, representations of things. For example, unlike nearly every single religion on the planet, he did not create an Earth mother, or a Sky/Earth division, or a mother/father of a pantheon.
Rather, IMHO, I think he wanted to do his thing, about writers, dreamers, about stories and story-tellers, and Dream/Sandman was his focus, but he had to fit it into a larger story.
Many of the Endless aren't really designed as deities - people wouldn't really worship the majority of them, nor really fear them - fearing death is a different type of thing from fearing the devil or being fearful to say piss off Zeus or not pay proper respect to Vishnu, etc.
