• Skydancer@pawb.social
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    2 months ago

    And the Etruscan gods. And the Carthaginian gods. And the Egyptian gods. And the … you get the idea.

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      2 months ago

      The Romans even had a standardised ritual for stealing gods from a city they were about to conquer: Evocatio. In the ritual, priests would call upon the enemy god(s) to abandon their city and come to Rome, where they would receive a bigger temple and more devoted worship than in the city about to be conquered.