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If I might be permitted to over-simplify, it almost seems like there is a "missing link" between the transition from polytheism to monotheism.
From my best understanding of reading multiple sources over the past few hours, it almost seems as though monotheism stemmed from polytheistic religions allowing focus on one specific god in their faith.
This wasn't uncommon, as villages in specific geographic areas found that one particular god represented aspects of the environment that they held important.
There tends to be a shift of some kind towards the idea of focusing worship on just that one god to centralizing worship for that one God.
I'm still looking into when and where that shift occurred. |