Could the avatars be formed by the belief-fact weirdness of the Cosmere?

[Ripheus23]

Let's say Autonomy infiltrates a religion, or starts one, or whatever, on some world. She keeps the details such that there is a sort of worship/belief energy directed at her personally, in each case. But over time, a discrepancy develops between Bavadin herself, and the image of her that is being worshiped. (I'm thinking like how the Stormfather is Tanavast's Cogntive Shadow partly by inheritance of Honor's role in the minds of Vorin and related believers.) Each of these now-separate images is Invested, self-aware, etc. but they all "fold back into" Bavadin/the Shard of Autonomy as such.

I feel like these wouldn't be Splinters and they wouldn't be Slivers, and that they might fit the use of the word "avatar," under the circumstances.

Is this theory too vague to mean anything? Or is there something else wrong with it?

Edited September 26, 2018 by Ripheus23