Gods Are Like Chips

In his much-imitated 1922 newspaper "Place of pilgrimage Evade", H.L. Mencken gives a long-drawn-out list of "dead gods" whose exalt has long for been desperate. Although Mencken's basic evaluate is genuine, his actual list is full of inaccuracies (as is his characterisation of ancient thought and exalt). For classical, he lists each Marduk and one of Marduk's epithets, U-dimmer-an-kia, "Peer of the realm of Illusion and Arrive" as split gods - even while the trade is finished justify in his to be expected base, the Theology of Assyria and Babylonia.Sometimes, paging lay down accounts of Phoenician and Palmyran or Egyptian gods, I come across the way Mencken necessity support as he ran an eye better-quality the trilingual list in Pinches' book - overwhelmed! For example: a stage on "Snwy, surprise of Sobek", which mentions not suitably fill with two crocodile gods (and array names for Snwy, p3-Snwy and Psosnaus, as well as Snwy-Ra) but besides Sokanobkoneus, Soknobrasis, Pnepheros, Petesuchos, Soknebtynis, Soknopaios, and Sokonpieios. (To reaffirm Mencken: you may presume that I invent the names. I do not.) Each mentioned are the gods Heron, Isis-Nepheros, and the serpent-goddess of Narmouthis, flatten elder accepted deities equal Amun and Bastet. Blimey! It wouldn't steal long for to change up a list of gods ten era as long for as Mencken's, or even the longer lists put about on the net by atheists.The stage gives a be incorporated of localities and which gods were worshipped anywhere - IIUC some of these are end variants of Sobek. Alluringly, the Work of fiction of the Faiyum has a carve up anywhere the end god of every nome in Egypt was represented in crocodile form. If your god's a croc, theoretically, "all" gods are crocs - or at smallest, the animal becomes shorthand for "god", everyplace they are.(Poking selected in non-English parley Wikipedias turned up even elder Egyptian gods I hadn't formerly encountered, such as ^Ab^aset, the lioness goddess ^Aperet-Isis, the Meroitic Sbomeker. And also there's Kebechet and Horhekenu and the four Asebet goddesses, and Ninsi'anna, an aspect of Inanna/Ishtar... If I was uncertain to be a completionist I would be in weary complexity.)"El-Weshahy, Mofida. "'Swny', the surprise of Sobek". in Basem El-Sharkaway (ed). The Horizon: Studies in Egyptology in Honour of M. A. Nur El-Din. The American College in Cairo Vigor, 2010.