What is God?

This paper applies eleven complementary methodological procedures to the question “What is God?”, following the Socratic-Platonic ti esti tradition — asking what something is before denying it, glorifying it, or confining it within a closed theory or dogma. The inquiry steers between the north pole of mere enumeration and the south pole of dogmatic definition, seeking an equatorial equilibrium or a southern tropical paradise. Drawing on definitions, quotations, proverbs, jokes, word clouds, Venn diagrams, opposition theory, the pyramid of meaning, categorization, typification, and symbolization, the paper maps the concept of God across its philosophical, religious, and cultural dimensions. Quotations from Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and Baron de Chambourcy illuminate ontological, ironic, and psychological aspects of the divine. Proverbs and jokes from Jewish, Sufi, and Buddhist traditions reveal how humor and folk wisdom encode deep theological insights. A semantic word cloud exposes the heterogeneous neighborhood of the concept, while a Venn diagram situates God among the notions of the Sacred and the Absolute, yielding seven distinct conceptual regions. Opposition theory breaks classical dichotomies — God/Devil, Reason/Faith — through trichotomies and hexagons. The pyramid of meaning distinguishes God as word, idea, and reality, placing the notion at its apex. Five categories organize the main conceptions of the divine: monotheism, polytheism, the non-personal absolute, pantheism/panentheism, and critical postures. Typification illustrates each category through representative images. Finally, symbolization identifies strong symbols — the Christian cross, Bastet, and Inti — as condensed expressions of the divine. The paper concludes not with closure but with clarification, keeping the door of philosophical wonder open.