This is awesome... Why couldn't we have this?

[Kuwagami]

I'm sure that's what they meant by "gods called to the land". They're the very image of their followers' god, called upon.
They are gods called to the land that is also an aetheric-sustaining being from the very beginning.

I dunno. Whenever 1.0 primals are brought here and there, they seem to have a lot of depth and to think by themselves, rather than by the collective consciousness from their summoners as they are in 2.0. Maybe I'm just biased because I never played 1.0 though.