God-Gifts in Fury Road

[ciiriianan]

We know that Immortan Joe promises afterlife, meaning, and glory, and also that he controls water and food.
But what if --
What if there were other gifts?
What if some War Boys had little blessings?
The warning feelings that somethings wrong, something's coming.
The dreams that tell the future (not too far, or too detailed, or too precise, but enough).
The ability to find water, always useful in the desert.
The knack for knowing what's wrong with the engine.
The gift of making things explode that shouldn't, logically, explode.
The second sight and second hearing -- Max has both, trauma muddled though they are.
The weather-knowing.
The reading of people.
The green thumb -- a strange talent for a War Boy, and one that keeps you in the garden with no chance of glory, and who do you worship then?
Who do they thank for the little gifts?
Do they have memories of their mothers' whispers, the cradle-tales?

And what Godens do the Vuvalini bring them?

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[microraptor_glider]

I don't have much, but as the Vuvalini come back more of the Godens are welcomed and praised. Dag collects the Green Thumbs to help with the seeds and finds new ones, ones that hadn't been in the garden earlier because they had been taught that the road was the way to live. Ones who didn't even know their Greenness because they had never touched a live plant before. She isn't a Green Thumb herself, more of a people reader, and its a flighting gift at that, but she knows the importance of plants. She also knows the dreams Angarhad had that had led them to furiosa, and Toast's way of picking things apart and putting them back together even if she's never seen them before (Capable thinks she would have been an Engine Heart if she had been raised near the cars. Toast is thankful enough she hadn't. Guns and canon fire are more her thing.)