| What complicates the matter is that in the known world at that time a lot of trading was going on. Stories would be heard in one place and repeated who knows how many times, with how many variations, as that trader traveled from one place to another? Considering how many supernatural beliefs must have developed, flourished and died in societies that lacked writing, I have to wonder how many gods there might be if we had historical evidence of them all.
This is an interesting topic. |