Who says the Mudokon faith can't be "wrong"? Perhaps they personify the spiritual being of oddworld as a single being because they're more comfortable with it. There's a substantial amount of people here on Earth that think our planet itself has a spiritual presence, and that people created the notion of God as a being simply because they couldn't fathom the "truth".
Notice all the quotation marks? Political correctness, at it's most annoying.
I like Max's theory, that there's some kind of mudokon freedom movement that was around before Abe, and they're helping him through his steps. Here's some more guesses on the subject of the Abe-directed messenges.
1- Sam is doing it. Maybe the Gluks have a little motivational thing going on, where the view screens are sometimes hooked up to the Shrink, and she gets to talk to the slaves. Of course, being the sad-sack she is, most of the time it's stuff like "keep working, their's nothing else in life, trust your mother on this", but when she sees Abe rescuing them (because, remember, she knows he's the savior in this scenario) she starts giving him advice. This would explain why those screens are mostly gone in MO- the gluks caught on to Sam's involvement, and had them all removed.
2- This spirit/god/whatever of oddworld is doing it. Kind of like when people say they see the virgin Mary in a taco shell, Abe starts seeing messages on screens, in clouds of fireflies, and anywhere else that's a usable medium. Just more help from an omnipotent guardian entity, that's all.
3- Munch is doing it (okay, this one's just goofy). Towards the end of the quintology, munch somehow gets sent back in time (perhaps through the same method that the birds send you back, hmm...), his job to possess the screens and give Abe advice as he goes.
4- The spirits of the dead are doing it. Remember that sligs are superstitious, and lock up spirits in the temples. Where did they first learn about them, then? In the factories, where ancient mudokon spirits wander around aimlessly, sometimes screwing with the message screens just to scare them. Then, just like the weirdos, as soon as Abe comes around the spirits know it's time, so they all start helping him.
5- Abe is doing it. Those messages aren't really there, they're all in his mind, an illusion, like I speculated the birds might be. Perhaps another of his messiah abilities is hidden knowledge, which surfaces itself subconciously.
6- Ratz are doing it. The great and Mighty raisin (who never really got a formal introduction, as far as I know) has been watching you the entire time, and, with the ratz as his eyes, he sends them out to chew on the wires and transmit messages to you (okay, this one's kind of dumb too)
7- One of the yet unknown heros is doing it. Squeek, or Nod, or whoever, turns out to have been following you since the beginning, helping out behind the scenes, until he trips or something, falls down, and formally introduces himself. He's shy, I guess.
Oh, and, as for how the moons were created- I told you. Magical mystical omnicsient god powers. AKA the paranormal. Could've been asteroids, or volcanic activity, or maybe they were made that way, during some kind of biblical-esque Oddworld creation. That would make sense, seeing how important that first hand is to Mudokon religion.
And Shrykull wouldn't be a god, he'd be an avatar. The embodiment of spiritual power, not the little picture, duh.
Oh Yeah, three different topics, one with 7 different theories! BRING IT ON, MUCHACHOS!
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