(November 10, 2011 at 3:37 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Native Americans believed what now? Some were polytheists, some monotheists, some animists or deists. There were probably atheists as well, lol. Humans that could become gods, ancestor worship, entire pantheons that sacrificed themselves for us, etc etc etc. America is a big place, there were lots of different cultures, and as such it was a spiritual buffet (much the same as it is now).
The point is: Did some of them believe that he gods fashioned and exterminated one generation of humans after the other, that the gods created humans to serve as their slaves and provide them with food, that the gods mated with human women and that the gods used messengers in order to communicate with other gods and with humans?
They did! Comparative mythology is a science and you cannot ignore it.
I know of ways used to avoid answering the question directly, but no one dared say that the American Indians did not believe of the gods what our own ancestor did.
Anyway, let us say that it was only the native American polytheists that believed the same with the European polytheists. What is your explanation of the phenomenon?