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Let us come together and praise the highest and mightiest god of them all, he who created the world we live in and gave shape to all things from the rock to the metals and waters and mountains. We would not have Gensokyo without him. He is the coolest.

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If anything, such a being would've already been surrounded by a lot of misconceptions and hearsay, like a lot of the canonical beings and locations are. This being may even be synonymous with the Dragon, which is something you never ever want to see appear in the series, since that has a fair likelihood of marking the end of Gensokyo. The story of the Dragon does have a flood myth associated, which itself has a lot of real-world incarnations like the Epic of Gilgamesh, manvantara-sandhya, and the Bible's Genesis story of Noah's Ark. One supreme deity with many interpretations is already a fair enough stand-in for monotheism and universal consciousnesses in different real-world religions.

Any Western priests of this supreme deity would be both uncomfortable for the other residents (as it would be hailing the end times and disrespecting the lesser gods) and at odds with any other priests, who would have their own interpretations. A Western interpretation would see the Dragon statue especially targeted as a symbol of idolatry, as people do worship at the statue to hopefully keep the Dragon satisfied. If anything happened to the statue through the influence of such a priest, their beliefs would probably come to be seen as a genuine threat and banished from existing in the Human Village and therefore all of Gensokyo.

It would either have to remain a very minor faction or remain as a belief that's hidden until the events of Gensokyo convince them that there's something else more immediate out there that they should probably be more concerned with.