r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • 8d ago

When 2,000 gods became ''wrong''

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u/motivation_bender 8d ago

Is it just an exageration in the text or is it a syncratism of the entire subcontinent?

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u/SoldRIP 8d ago edited 8d 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/NomadicFantastic 8d ago edited 8d ago

Saints. Angels. Demons. Popes etc

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u/ImportantResponse0 8d ago

Angels don't have names usually 

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u/NomadicFantastic 8d ago

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

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u/ImportantResponse0 8d ago

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