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When the dominant religion in a society is polytheism, and there is a new cult which promotes a switch to monotheism, then there is a rising problem of what to do with all the other Gods. The CEO of the polytheistic supernatural was Jove. When Jove was converted to Jehovah (Yawah) by the monotheists, they had to do something benign to all the other gods. Killing them would cause a backlash among their worshippers. The invention of angels took care of that problem. Thus originated the angels. A wise management decision to give them a promotion to a place where they could not exercise independent power. Saturn, the Latin name for Jove, gave his special day to become the Sabbath or sacred day of the monotheists, Saturday. Many observers suggest that the conversion to monotheism was also the promotion of patriarchal ideology, reinforced by the view that God was a He with absolute powers. Among the Akan, where the language does not have separate and different pronouns for he and she, the Supreme being is neither male nor female, but both. Feminists, of course, know that She is Female. |