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| Feb 4, 2017 at 1:18 | comment | added | Fayth85 | @MonicaCellio there are also the old world city gods. Middle East, before the rise of organized religion, each city had their own god they worshipped (which later got roped in together as the pantheon for the Assyrian empire). The 'more power god' was just the patron god of the city that conquered their neighbours. | |
| Sep 29, 2014 at 21:30 | comment | added | James | That point is more a matter of geography and timeline really, I could share some interesting information about Mithras being both a Zoroastrian (first "mono" theistic religion) and Hindu figure, who was also absorbed into the roman pantheon...but that may need to be taken to chat or another question entirely. | |
| Sep 29, 2014 at 21:28 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | On the interaction part, I just meant that while, yes, Christians and Hindus (for example) have certainly encountered each other, the religions aren't entwined the way, say, Christianity and Islam are -- in the former case, as I understand it (not being a member of any group I've named so far), they don't make claims about each other or each others' gods. I may be misreading, but I understand the question to be about one religion absorbing another's gods rather than them just ignoring each other. Does that help? | |
| Sep 29, 2014 at 21:19 | comment | added | James | That's a good question, I don't think the OP asked for a past historic example but now you've made me curious...I would suspect that some of the Hindu deities were in fact stand-alone local gods that got rolled into the religion but I have no proof of that. What do you mean when you say that mono/polytheistic religions don't interact? | |
| Sep 29, 2014 at 21:09 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Polytheism is alive and well alongside monotheistic religions -- mostly they just don't interact. Are you aware of any cases where a polytheistic religion has "absorbed" a monotheistic god? | |
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| Sep 29, 2014 at 14:42 | history | answered | James | CC BY-SA 3.0 |