>false gods aren't evil

sorry what

I think other religions can hold truth

Ones that compliment Christianity

But there is only one God

The pagan dieties may be pale reflections of the creator

But they are not gods

Our Ancestors saw them as People who broke the bounds of reality and achieved greatness.

Our ancestors really didn't believe in a creator deity, They may of had names for them but thought that they were out of the realm of our comprehension.

The gods we see are just In reality Gods of the Virtues and Enlightenment of a true Indo-European man/women.

Also Skellington the "Pale reflections" were us. All the gods descended from us, So i think that Christians can still use these Archetypes to our will.

Paganism didn't always grow with specific cultures- just look at the gods Romans officially worshipped before embracing Christ: you see an odd mix of Hellenic, Persian and even Egyptian.

Still, the core premise isn't completely false. However, just look at any Slavic culture and tell me they didn't grow with Christianity too.

Serbian Orthodox is a perfect example of this with various traditions (small t) growing out of their conversion, such as Slava Saints and burning the Badnjak

With the Romans, They adopted "Cults" this was when Rome started to become decadent. Also quoting Asha Logos here and some information by Plutarch "The Romans Descended from those refugees from troy". Furthermore great cult's that had nothing to do with the roman pantheon was the worship of Marthas. This was a roman warrior cult. Adopted when the romans were at war with the Persians. So these cults had almost nothing to do with the main roman pantheon and were we allowed to stay as it started as many cults started to be adopted by the Aristocracy.

Also on the note of troy this means that the Romans may of had alot of influence from these Greeks as the original people who migrated to the area may of been troy Refugees. So this must mean that Greek Religion was brought with them to this new land and slowly started to be called by another name.

As the Italic cultures and the Trojan culture mixed this led to the creation of the Roman pantheon which is closely related to that of there Trojan Predecessors.

Keep in mind Plutarch is writing in the 1st century AD

Admittedly, the myth of Romulus and Remus involves the Hellenic gods

But the earliest account is from the 3rd century and could have been inspired and inherited from nearby Greek colonies

Yes. But that does not disqualifies him from the discussion.

Plutarch mentions many times that he had researched and listened to the Greek Equalivent of Bards.

Well correct me if I'm wrong , but the idea that Romans were descendants of Trojans was popularized by Virgil, was it not?

In the Aeneid?

Which may be quite factual, Especially with the Greek colonies in the south. Which is not a far fetched idea that maybe a century's earlier that a group of Refugee's made there way to rome.

Maybe i have no read that myself.

Regardless, the Hellenistic religion was likely inherited from the Etruscans now that I look into it.

It's possible

I can't say

Could you link that. Would love to read it within my spare time.

The Aeneid?

Mhm.

I'll see if I can find a defend pdf

I'll put it in the books section

Ok.

But also maybe, The Etruscans were not a home grown culture maybe they were descended from those Trojans.

Because when you look into there art work and Architecture and weapons (Whatever is left). Is very similar to that of Greek Architecture.

And Weapon smithing.

Perhaps, although there suggestions that the Etruscans spoke a semetic language descended from Phoenician....but we don't know for sure since there's little in the way of their language surviving.

It a regionally fluid area

Tons of tribes, clans and colonies flitting about Mare Nostrum