I found this recently, and it’s quite an extensive page. It contains very detailed information about King’s cosmology, but it goes a bit beyond the usual interpretations and is partly based on fan interpretations. (Even though I assume most people will comment without fully reading the page,) what do you think about this page?
As someone who has been interested in the Dark Tower for a long time, this is something I have always wondered about. Is Gan an omnipotent and singular God, or just a being slightly more powerful than a typical Prim creature? The first interpretation is usually the one that comes to mind. To explain in detail, throughout the novels Gan is generally described as the arche, the source and essence of everything, the power above all things, and something with absolutely no equal. Even the evil represented by the Crimson King (the Red) is essentially still encompassed within the White. Jake describes Gan’s voice as indescribable and magnificent. In Treachery, it is even stated that Gan is the One, and that all other gods, including the Guardians, are merely aspects of him.
>This Final Other was, perhaps, the creator of the Turtle, which only watched, and It, which only ate. This Other was a force beyond the universe, a power beyond all other power, the author of all there was.
>As the Manni know, Mid-World is a land of many gods, but all of those gods are also one single divine force. The faces of the multiple divinities are but masks worn by the One; they are costumes tailored to fit the needs of individual worshippers. Similarly the Tower is an essence and a force whose form changes from world to world. And as its form changes, so does its function.
>Just before Jake sees the Rose in the deserted Lot at Forty-sixth Street and Second Avenue, he hears the voice of the White, which he finds indescribably beautiful: The humming grew. Now it was not a thousand voices but a million, an open funnel of voices rising from the deepest well of the universe. He caught names in that group voice, but could not have said what they were. One might have been Marten. One might have been Cuthbert. Another might have been Roland Roland of Gilead. There were other names; there was a babble of conversation that might have been ten thousand entwined stories; but above all that gorgeous, swelling hum, a vibration that wanted to fill his head with bright white light.
>("White over Red, thus Gan wills ever" or "God over evil, this is the will of God")
>The White is wholeness and unity. It is the tapestry woven from many interlocking KA-TETS. It contains both good and evil, yet seen in the greater context of the White there is no gray or black, only whiteness. Like white light, the White contains all colors within its balance.
But on the other hand, somewhat contradictorily, Gan cannot even protect the Tower, which is his manifestation, from Maerlyn. In Sheemie’s Tale, things become even more complicated, and at that point I would rather leave it to the quotes and your interpretation:
>Transforming into a tornado, the-night draft lifted the glass dust and attacked the Tower with a whirlwind of microscopic razors. This vortex of shards swirled about Gan like a bitter storm, entering his windows of electric blue light, pitting and scarring his skin of hardened stone, and killing the greenery at his base until there was nothing left but desert. Though his injuries were terrible, Gan would eventually heal. After all, every magical being has the ability to endlessly regenerate. But what happened to the multiple worlds was much worse.
>But then came our enemy, to disturb our feed.
>Gan hated the rich, unformed waters of the Prim. But most of all, he was jealous of our feeding.
>He wanted to create a new world with new creatures.
>He wanted to usurp our power and become Lord of All.
>!To summarize the topic, in Chapter 21 of It, it is stated that everything flowed from IT, and therefore no creature in Pennywise’s world, or in any world, could ever truly harm IT. After this point, Pennywise begins to fear the possibility of the Other existing. The core question is this: if all creatures flowed from IT, does that mean all evil beings existing across the multiverse originate from the Deadlights?!<
>>!“And yet there was a thought that insinuated itself no matter how strongly It tried to push the thought away. It was simply this: if all things flowed from It (as they surely had done since the Turtle sicked up the universe and then fainted inside its shell), how could any creature of this or any other world fool It or hurt It, no matter how briefly or triflingly? How was that possible? And so a last new thing had come to It, this not an emotion but a cold speculation: suppose It had not been alone, as It had always believed? Suppose there was Another? And suppose further that these children were agents of that Other? Suppose... suppose . . . It began to tremble. Hate was new. Hurt was new. Being crossed in Its purpose was new. But the most terrible new thing was this fear”!<
>!In Stephen King’s multiverse, there are many cosmic evil entities: Pennywise, Tak, Crimson King, Cthun, etc. However, the common point shared especially by the villains I mentioned is that they all seem to be directly or indirectly connected to the Deadlights. For example, we know that Pennywise is directly an avatar of the Deadlights. Similarly, Tak’s red living lights resemble the Deadlights. The Crimson King, in Insomnia, seeks help from the Deadlights in order to ascend to the higher levels of the The Dark Tower. And in N., when N looks into the black hole at the center of the seven stone pillars sealing Cthun, he interprets it as a dark, hungry, and most importantly living light.!<