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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evildmguy" data-source="post: 4192577" data-attributes="member: 6092">Well, yes and no.  The reason many cultures did this is to make their religion more palatable to the conquered.  When the Romans conquered the Greeks and said, "Well, that's like us, except it's Jupiter not Zeus" it was so the conquered would feel at home using the Roman gods.  What the Romans did very well was make everyone want to be Roman, for the priveledges and status that came with it.  Part of that was due to them making it easy on others to accept the Roman religion.  Other ancient religions have done it as well.  It's only the religions that don't have the "easy to compare them to other gods" gods that weren't conquered or we don't know all of their myths.  Also, it's not like Greek and Rome were that far apart.  The fact that they had similar gods shouldn't be surprising.  It's when you look at Egyptian or Babylonian and Roman gods that there are bigger differences.  edg</blockquote>