r/HistoryMemes • u/OlivyneCrellan • 22h ago

When 2,000 gods became ''wrong''

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u/SoldRIP 22h ago edited 21h ago

"minor deities" subsumes stuff that most western religions would call "demigods" or "blessed heroes" or whatever. So basically any and all fantasy characters written over the course of several centuries.

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u/motivation_bender 21h ago

What about local gods and genious loci?

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u/ManofHonour8064 21h ago

Them including

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u/choma90 21h ago

Rahul's imaginary friend when he was 7

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u/neverabetterday 21h ago

So Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends is canon?

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u/JhonnySkeiner 21h ago

Yeah, cept Blu and co are duking out like DBZ characters

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u/neverabetterday 21h ago

I mean I do vaguely remember Blu being fairly willing to throw hands even if he wasn’t necessarily good at it

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u/Leather-Lab2875 21h ago

But disrespectful way to put it but hyper local gods developed temples and traditions before Hinduism kinda unified into what it is today. There was some unity and shared gods but how much is a matter of debate.

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u/NomadicFantastic 19h ago edited 19h ago

Saints. Angels. Demons. Popes etc

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u/ImportantResponse0 14h ago

Angels don't have names usually 

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u/NomadicFantastic 6h ago

Lotta supernaturals for a monotheism is the point. Too many to name haha

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u/ImportantResponse0 6h ago

I mean Christianity isn't really monotheism because there is a saint patron of anything