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>>35888402
Dragons *are* gods, anon, and high-ranking ones at that. PMiSS even says that twice in the same article. We've never actually seen a full-grown dragon in Touhou, only babies and one sealed into an animal body, and that's not what the sages were dealing with.

There is zero shame in acting deferential to a dragon, let alone a group of dragons attacking you at the same time. Hell, even Suwako calls the Mishaguji "-sama".

The issue is that most of the traits attributed to the Dragon God were actually attributed to dragons in general (the supposed Dragon God article is actually a species article, listed in the species section of PMiSS and complete with sections like "Population Diversity: Unknown"). This slipped under the radar because dragons didn't start showing up in Touhou until long after PMiSS. Ryuujin *is* mentioned in the article, but only as the model of the statue. Honoring the dragons by building a statue of their king is a pretty normal thing to do, and doesn't require their king to have been actually present. Especially since it was built by kappa, who already have strong ties to (river) dragons.

It looks like this started in 2009 when someone edited the Touhouwiki page because they thought the phrase it used for "the highest of gods" is only used in monotheism (not only is that untrue, ZUN is even on record as saying he will never put a monotheistic god in Touhou). Then later editors replaced more and more instances of "dragon" with "Dragon God" without reading the JP text.
Here's the last version of the Touhouwiki translation before that happened:
https://en.touhouwiki.net/index.php?title=Perfect_Memento_in_Strict_Sense/Dragon&oldid=72254

I'd say if
>The sky was rent with constant thunder, the land was engulfed in a flood that threatened to submerge it, and for an instant, the skies were completely dark.
that's plenty of reason to get on your knees.