Difficulties also arose because Om would immediately recognize other gods, even tell Brutha some gossip about them, but the Omnian religion put to death anyone who suggested other gods existed.

Om was also selfish and in some regards, amoral. He only vaguely remembered the seven prophets who claimed to have delivered his commandments and precepts, and Brutha, his lasts believer, had to come to grips with the fact that the Great God Om was, in fact, insulting, arrogant, frivolous by self-admission (when he manifested to one of the prophets, his words had been 'Hey, look what I can do!' and nothing more), and not nearly as knowing, powerful, or present as Brutha had been raised to whole-heartedly believe. A major factor in Omnian affairs at this time was that very few people actually believed in Om himself, only in the clerical hierarchy and in the superficial trappings of religion.īecause of this lack of belief - the substance of the gods - Om had virtually no power for most of Small Gods and was trapped in the form of a tortoise. At the time of Small Gods (a hundred years previous to the time explored by other Discworld novels according to Thief of Time), the Cenobiarch was a very old man, and the country was actually ruled by his advisors, chiefly Vorbis, a character who is believed to be based on Ximenes de Cisneros. The desert country of Omnia is a theocracy on the Klatchian continent, ruled by the Cenobiarch.

Omnianism is the most oft-mentioned religion in the Discworld series. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Omnians also insisted, up until a hundred years ago, that the world is a sphere. Unlike the major Discworld gods, who exist within a pantheon, Om is a monotheistic deity whose followers insist that he is the one and only true God.

His temple resides in Kom, presumably the capital, and his followers are known as Omnians. Om is an omnipotent, omnipresent (only within the boundaries of the Omnian church) god in the country of Omnia.

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