The Zuma are Other. They have, at times, fielded monster unit types. They probably look funny and practice ritual sacrifice. By every metric in tMP's book they are not to be trusted. Which is why I'm wondering why anyone is debating the validity of a religious or philosophical tenet of tMP that doesn't exist?
It doesn't matter if the Zuma are different from the Daimons on BT. They satisfy several other conditions. tMP doesn't say "thou must suspect daimons (only)". It says that daimons are merely actors in a very Darwinian cosmology, and there are other non-human things waiting to eat us, too! The Manifest Path is not a religion on BT; it's on Dwilight. It is informed by events on BT, which as I understand are part of the larger BM canon. People talk about Da Great Goat on every continent. Attempting to draw distinctions between the Zuma and Daimons in such a way as to question tMP is a bit like saying "you can't believe that here", which would be rich given the circumstances.
