I've always enjoyed mythic stories, even more so when they are entirely made up fantasy-mythological systems. I also loved the Silmarillion. Then again, I was a Religion major in college, and several friends say that they snuck up on me in the library unconsciously humming a happy little song to myself as I dug through ancient journals of exegesis, so perhaps I'm a weirdo. No, scratch that. Definitely, I'm a weirdo.
That said, it seems like more of the posters thus far liked this one than disliked it, so maybe we're all weirdos together.
I've also got a soft spot for mortal-outwits-god stories. I guess that's what happens when you are simultaneously a theist and a humanist - I believe in God, but I get all smiley when humans get the better of it! This probably makes more sense to the Jews who are reading this - most Christians find this aspect of my faith commitment pretty baffling.
That aspect of the story made perfect sense to me. Gods speak the world into being, so they can't really lie. Whatever they say exists, it exists. However, gods are also dependent upon their believers for existence - that's why the gods kept on recreating humans after wiping them out each time. So, when she said that the god had saved her people... it became true. Because she was the source of his existence, and she had recharacterized his statement.
Overall, this was a delightful story. I really enjoyed the lyric tone, as the myth was layered on step by step. Five out of five zeppelins, all of them on fire.