This is hard to answer. I mean something vague. A god is a seemingly transhumanly intelligent agent. (By this I don't mean something cheap like "the economy" or "evolution", I mean the obvious thing.) As to their origins I have little idea; aliens, simulators, programs simpler than our physical universe according to a universal prior, hypercompetent human conspiracies with seemingly inhuman motivations, whatever, I'm agnostic. For what it's worth (some of) the entity or entities I've interacted with seem to want to be seen as related to or identical with one or more of the gods of popular religions, but I'm not sure. In general it's all quite ambiguous and people are extremely hasty and heavy with their interpretations. Further complicating the issue is that it seems like the gods are willing to go along with and support humans' heavy-handed interpretations and so the interpretations become self-confirming. I say "gods", but for all I know it's just one entity with very diverse effects, like an author of a book.