User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 320 - In Which Nearly No Review Happened (Fierce Lightning)/@comment-3061966-20130223154714

4 Gods of Ishval = Demons.

You heard it here first.

I doubt they're actually gods, but we know demons exist and were mentioned as part of that festival in the past. Demons are no mere mortals, so that works. The old lady said their power was god like, not that they are actually gods.