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>Well my perspective was drawn from something that I >believed has shaped deities on the planet. > >From such humble beginnings as Athena, the >personafication of Athens, or more recently Britannia >personafication of Britian. > >I mention both of these to explain what could be the >way things have snowballed from the past. A high >"priest" of a particular shrine, makes a bunch of >rules and beliefs for people to follow. People back >then rather than saying you are a particular named >relgion, personified their "religion". > >There new found religions sculptured deities of both >Greek and Roman mythology. > >From this troubles aroused, especially with Rome. The >Romans got to the point of accumilating a vast empire >through conquest, and with each newly occupied region >came the beliefs of the locals. This meant that the >Roman mythology accumilated many new gods, and many >different regions had different shrines. > >The problem arose from these "Provinces" having their >gods "argue", where one region might gain floods >another would suffer drought and this would be >perceived to be the work of the gods waring with one >another. >This would cause the priests to encite their provinces >to attack one another, which in turn caused unrest to >the stability of Rome. > >One religion that seemed to surround a man that was >nothing more than a travelling story teller, captured >the Roman Caesar eventually after many years of trying >to irradicate it but inturned increased the peoples >defiance. >The understanding that people were "unifying" unto one >"god", was enough to help him decide that religion >should be established. > >Simply if all the provinces were to accept one "god" >and one set of Fundemental rules, the provinces would >stop fighting amoungst themselves and civil unrest >would be less likely and the Caesars popularity in the >known world would escalate to new heights. > >Thats my explaination of gods and deities, nothing >more than a singular personafication created for >popularity and crowd control.

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