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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9809443" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Why would Bahamut be known as that specific name--"Bahamut"--to every culture which contains members of his flock?If gods are polydimensional, or trans-planar, or what-have-you, why would they limit their worship to creatures inhabiting only a single livable space (plane, planetary body, self-intersecting doughnut, what-have-you)?My point was that IRL there have been many gods who were seen as Very Completely Real by the peoples of our world--whether or not they actually were/are real--which were called by multiple distinct names in distinct cultural groups. The Greek/Roman overlap isn't the only example. The Romans were certain that the Norse revered Hermes above all other gods--by the name Odin. They were likewise certain that Anubis was Hermes as well. Likewise, Herodotus recorded myths claiming that the Egyptian gods were really just Greek gods in disguise while they hid from an enemy: Amon/Zeus, Osiris/Dionysus, Ptah/Hephaestus. I swear there was a fourth but I'm not seeing it now--but the point remains, this is obvious, intentional syncretism of genuinely distinct deities--such that the Greeks, or Romans, could claim that this other culture "really does" worship their same gods, such that they will call Amun/Amon "Zeus" even though...it isn't Zeus.</blockquote>