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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8314379" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Ehhh... and the rest of the gods of those other pantheons becaaaaame... Nothing.Because you recontextualize the ones you can't get rid of. Like the Saturnalia becoming Christmas. See also the plethora of Semitic Gods in ancient cultures that were destroyed by various warring tribes or folded into a singular religious identity when their worship couldn't be quashed. Heck, the entire Sumerian Pantheon became squashed and recontextualized into minor spirits (Often Malicious) under the Elohim in ancient Hebrew traditions.Can't get rid of a deity? Vilify him!Meanwhile when Rome conquered Anatolia in what is now Turkey, formerly held by those of the Altaic language group with their own religious beliefs, they wiped out the cultural traditions of the Altaic people except for Cybel. And the only reason she survived was a Prophecy that if the &quot;Idaen Mother Goddess&quot; was brought to Rome the invaders (Hannibal et al) would be expelled.But the rest? Gone to ash and ruin. We only knew about them before recent times through contemporary Roman and Greek writings.Many religions were destroyed by Greek and Roman conquests throughout the ages. As well as the Semitic wars, the Ugaritic conquests, the Altaic conquests... Don't get me started on Zoroastrianism's impact on religious identities as the first &quot;Monotheistic&quot; religion (Which was really a dualistic religion that just treated the gods of all other cultures as lesser spirits and demons)...Christendom held it's own religious conquests as well, obviously, as they all but wiped out the Germanic and Finno-Ugric and Slavic religions, but that was later and also monotheistic...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8314379, member: 6796468"] Ehhh... and the rest of the gods of those other pantheons becaaaaame... Nothing. Because you recontextualize the ones you can't get rid of. Like the Saturnalia becoming Christmas. See also the plethora of Semitic Gods in ancient cultures that were destroyed by various warring tribes or folded into a singular religious identity when their worship couldn't be quashed. Heck, the entire Sumerian Pantheon became squashed and recontextualized into minor spirits (Often Malicious) under the Elohim in ancient Hebrew traditions. Can't get rid of a deity? Vilify him! Meanwhile when Rome conquered Anatolia in what is now Turkey, formerly held by those of the Altaic language group with their own religious beliefs, they wiped out the cultural traditions of the Altaic people except for Cybel. And the only reason she survived was a Prophecy that if the "Idaen Mother Goddess" was brought to Rome the invaders (Hannibal et al) would be expelled. But the rest? Gone to ash and ruin. We only knew about them before recent times through contemporary Roman and Greek writings. Many religions were destroyed by Greek and Roman conquests throughout the ages. As well as the Semitic wars, the Ugaritic conquests, the Altaic conquests... Don't get me started on Zoroastrianism's impact on religious identities as the first "Monotheistic" religion (Which was really a dualistic religion that just treated the gods of all other cultures as lesser spirits and demons)... Christendom held it's own religious conquests as well, obviously, as they all but wiped out the Germanic and Finno-Ugric and Slavic religions, but that was later and also monotheistic... [/QUOTE]

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