Pez
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Says who? When connected to a DC-verse, where there are literally New Gods, who eventually achieve Domains, I see some parallels. Renegade just talked about how everypony is borh with an ability (or domain). The fact that Renegade's cutie mark is tied to his Conquest domain, fuels my theory. Ponies don't get their mark until their brain is able to conceptualize their own connection to their ability (domain) - what the mark looks like is irrelevant. When they get that illness, they seemingly magically gain other domains, and when the illness is cured, they then lose those domains. And despite being born with a domain, which pony's feel instinctually, Renegade's theory is that if they lost their cutie marks after getting them, they would then lose their ability (domain).
There are certainly power gaps between the New Gods (depending on which lore you're going by, ones from New Genesis are better than their Apokoliptian counterparts, if only barely), but if we still assume them all the same, there is a power gap between Desaad and Vundabar to Kanto and Mantis, and the latter to Orion and Kalabak, and again the latter to High Father and Darkseid.
I see much the same with ponies. I could accept the argument that when they have both wings AND a horn they achieve godhood, but looking at the parallels, the argument could be made they are all just minor gods.
In context with this story, though, I'd say that Renegade's work on making gods probably proves my theory false. I'm sure pregodhood!Artemis would have just been a Pegasus or something, and current!Artemis is a Alicorn (I think she was, at least).