Talk:Soft polytheism

Greek hard polytheism?

There were a lot of Greeks, and Greek culture covered a long period; it's misleading to say they all thought the gods were distinct and separate. In the Greek magical papyri there are several examples of multiple goddesses being seen as merely aspects of a single goddess. And in Orphism, Pan and Zeus and Dionysus were seen as aspects of a single being, the Phanes-Protogonos. The Greeks were also quick to adopt foreign gods under the names of domestic deities, e.g. the Ephesian Artemis, or the god of Mendes being described as the Egyptian Pan! I think we need to find a better example of hard polytheism! Fuzzypeg☻ 03:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

indeed. the only way is to discuss this in context, and make clear that both positions existed alongside even in anqtiquity. --dab (𒁳) 11:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)