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>the primary difference between a god and a deity is that a god requires a third agent to call upon its power, while a deity is defined simply through its baseline existential patterns (those patterns being that of a star, or a sun).
This may make some difference in the understanding of certain texts, but for example the bible has been mistranslated many times so it's possible the meaning was added by a translator rather than being the original application. There is some meaning in the idea of "invoking God" as a ritual versus a distant passive "deity" in the sky. Although one could very well invoke a sun god which otherwise is passive, so the word would then be more of a description of the practitioner than the being out there itself.