>>425718
because polytheism is highly syncretic

Because it was based on the same everyday reality.

>>425739
/thread

>>425718
Because the gods are real.

>>425718
How were they similar to each other?

>>425718
How different can they really get? God of sun, thunder, rain, sea, horses, fertility, harvest, medicine, war...

Humans all have largely the same experiences, right? So if you get two groups that ascribe the causes of these experiences to higher powers, you will find many duplicates.

Plus >>425724
Most all polytheistic cultures I am aware of had a very inclusive view of other gods.

>You have a god of love? Wow, so do we. They must be the same god. What? You practice X? We practice Y. Maybe we should do both to be safe. Aphrodite is a good example.

This is also how you get the Roman Pantheon, and how the Greek Pantheon and mythology coalesced. Greek gods with the possible exception of Poseidon and Zeus (who also probably took on many local traits) are syncretisms of local paleo-Balkan deities and those found in lands conquered by Greeks (Cyprus & Cyrene for Aphrodite, for example).

Helen of Troy was probably the original goddess of love/fertility in the Peloponnese. She was integrated into the larger social and religious order created by the Greeks in order to appease locals. Her religious importance was maintained by making her the a daughter of their Sky-Father.

Artemis at Ephesus spawned the greatest of the seven wonders, which was the last of 4 architecturally revolutionary temples, and was worshipped (probably not as Artemis) by least the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Anatolians, Assyrians and Greeks and later Romans.

Because they were visited by the same ancient aliens.

>>425718
You realize that they didn't grow independently right? They learned from each other, they borderd each other.

>>425718
Because they directly interacted with each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_superstrate_in_Mitanni

Mesopotamians have shit taste in style for using insect like wings over feathered wings for the depictions of their deities.

>>429002
These are obviously feathered wings.

Did sumerians use feather wings for spirits and gods, or was it semitic concept?

>>425718
>Tiamat comes from/is the ocean
>Has feathered wings
Something here doesn't fit

merchants.

>>425718
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostratic_languages

>>425718
But are they?

I mean, there's of course a lot that they share, but don't all polytheisms share a lot? Considering the massive contact between semitics and indo-europeans in the mediterranean and even other places, isn't the similarity even relatively small?

>>426838
ayylmao u figured it out anon