History Headscratchers / AhMyGoddess

** In the Manga, Hild might be referring to a compensation for the fact that she was forced to stop being the Almighty's consort; as per rule of the God's race, the inter-species God/Demon relationship that they intended to have had to pass a test by both parties being able to go through the Judgement Gates; Hild has revealed that she did not pass the test, so the Almighty eventually found another consort, Anzus (the eventual mother of Belldandy and Skuld). It is actually never revealed if Anzus had to pass any test to become the Almighty's consort (as she is from Yggdrasil as well), which has caused them a great enmity.
*** She doesn't have to. The gate was said to be a test for cross-species love, at Tyr and Anzus are of the same species, they don't need to take the test.

** Well, it's shown that Hild isn't that angry at the Almighty for the separation, so one can gather that Anzus had some part on the separation (her being the enforcer of the Judgement Gate, all in all), and that's why they are mad at each other and fight at Niflheim. I think that there is still some subtext under that plot. I like the fact that by watching Hild and Anzus fighting, Keiichi realized that both Heavenly and Demonic creatures are equally terrifying.
*** Hild left Tyr on her own account, with nothing to do with Anzus. Hild even tricked the system into letting her meet Tyr once more so she gave birth to Urd from Tyr before Tyr switched to Anzus.

* Why did the Almighty subject himself and Hild to the Judgement Gate? Hild has suggested that they were forced to do so, but if the character is indeed ''THE'' Almighty, did he just do it for the sake of the rules?; if such is the case, does the Almighty ''only'' rule over Heaven and there is a higher power that made him go through the gates? (in all fairness, Hild -his former wife- and Anzus -his current wife- only refer to this subject as "him" and it's heavily implied that it's the Almighty, though -if I remember correctly- it's never directly stated that he is the subject indeed).

** ACertainPointOfView could also come into play, here. To paraphrase [[Franchise/IndianaJones Dr. Henry Jones Jr.]], it's a matter of "fact" not "truth". A person could tell Bell something that is a blatant falsehood without her emotional senses picking up on it if they were to absolutely believe what they were saying, no matter how wrong it is. For example, Sora ''believes'' she is a horrible cook, ergo, saying she is would come across as the truth, even if the fact of the matter is that she simply needed to simply learn from her earlier mistakes and take a different approach. So, when a {{Jerkass}} like Aoshima tells Belldandy the first time that he's a wonderful guy who intends to show her a good time, his "belief" in his own words would compel Bell to believe him until experience had taught her (as it did) that he was not to be trusted.

* In one manga mini-arc, the water-creature [[http://manga.animea.net/ah-my-goddess-chapter-205-page-20.html thinks]] that what Belldandy and co. are doing is a "conspiracy" to destroy her and her people. Why doesn't she realize that if a 1st class goddess is really as powerful as they claim, just snapping their fingers would be enough to destroy her, were that the goal?

* In chapter 243 of the manga, Hild [[http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=ah-my-goddess&chapter=ah-my-goddess-243&page_nr=12 says]] that the demons and goddesses get their power from granting the wishes of humans. Why then, would the demons be willing to destroy the world, removing their own source of power from existence?

** The Almighty is a title (Daitenkaicho), as revealed in chapter 294 of the manga [[http://www.mangareader.net/ah-my-goddess/294/23]]. It is revealed that the current almighty is Tyr, who in Norse mythology is the son of Odin in the more familiar and recent myths (in the earlier-written myths, he had Odin's position).

** The almighty is the God Tyr [[http://www.mangareader.net/ah-my-goddess/294/23]]. As such, he is the son of Odin, so he was a subject of the Doors just like any other God.

* A major one regards the reveal near the end of the manga that ever since the contract was made Keiichi's [[spoiler:sexual desire for Belldandy was sealed/restricted to ensure they would not mate (no word on how Belldandy dealt with her own desires, unfortunately) and that every deity around him except Skuld was aware of it. This raises huge numbers of questions given how often both Urd and Peorth either offered sex to Keiichi or encouraged him and Belldandy to have sex. Just what was the point if they knew all along that it wouldn't/couldn't happen? Further, just why is sex forbidden anyway? As far as we know gods and humans can't reproduce with each other (the lake goddess and her husband never had a child (and she was even originally human). Is it simply meant to imply that having sex makes the eventual separation by death much harder to bear?]]
** It's not explicitly shown that Peorth is aware of the restriction imposed on Keiichi, but it's implied that Urd's attempts to prompt Keiichi to action were to try to attempt to bypass the restriction. Also, it's not stated that they cannot engage in sexual activity, while the restriction stems from inter-species reproduction, which is the big no-no.
** Looking through the chapters I don't see how the above is so. Hild states "Heaven set limits on intercourse between gods and humans because of their fundamentally different natures," Belldandy's mother Ansuz is called the "inter-racial romance inquisitor," she states "goddesses and humans should not be joined," and then we have the lake goddess and her mate who spent a lifetime together and yet had no children mentioned despite clearly having had a sexual relationship. Reproduction is never mentioned as a factor to my knowledge, instead the implication is that being able to indulge in lust for each other is what Heaven seeks to prevent due to tragic outcomes in the past. Indeed it seems unlikely goddesses and humans can even have children in this setting if it never happened to a woman who once was human herself.
** Angels must not be defiled by the act of sex. Even sex meant from love is forbidden to an angel.
*** If that were true then Peorth and Urd would not be so willing to have sex with a human. Not to mention the gods (recall Belldandy and her kind are not angels, angels are symbiotic organisms with gods in this series) clearly have sex with each other and reproduce. Being "defiled" is never indicated to be an issue in and of itself. Again, the only explanation I am aware of that the manga gives is the vague "fundamentally different natures" statement, which again doesn't seem to inherently cause issues.

*** If that were true then Peorth and Urd would not be so willing to have sex with a human. Not to mention the gods (recall Belldandy and her kind are not angels) clearly have sex with each other and reproduce.

*** This IS Christianity (and/or Catholicism). The Norse names and imagery is just metaphor.