"God Will no Longer be 'He' or 'Lord' in Sweden"

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Funny you bring up this example. I actually encountered people metaphorically describing the divine all as some form of kraken with myriads of arms (each of which corresponding to a consciousness).

I mentioned squid just because they're foreign to our experience, but some of them may have language ability.

While I see value in that image, most of my religious tradition rather imagine their main deity in the form of a dragon or some animal-human-mix. Or even geometric figures or simply darkness.
But ultimately it's all just figurative language, crutches for the mind.

IMO, any god is a "crutch for the mind:" a device to help the believer relate to the universe.

I guess we are heading towards circular logic here. Your definition of god includes it having to be a personification of some sort or another which therefore means that all gods are anthropomorphisms, by your definition.

No; I just think that's how it generally works out. For instance:

But let's try once more... I consider it a god because it's the creator of everything, ruling us all, omnipresent, and because it's venerated by humans. I think that should be enough reasons.
And I think that also many polytheists have such abstract notions of their deities.

The terms "creator" and ruler" suggest anthropomorphism... as well as veneration, if we assume the god cares about being venerated.