By the way, that’s how I’ve chosen to interpret it ever since Nicky mentioned that the gods are more or less equivalent: I’ve linked them to the Gold Saints (Saint Seiya), where it’s said that a battle between two of them would last a thousand days, but in practice some are clearly more powerful than others, albeit not overwhelmingly so. As for the Divine Beasts, I’ve interpreted them as, well, Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga and Shun whilst wearing their Divine Cloths – far superior to the Gold Saints in general, though it’s not clear exactly by how much.