I really like this topic, and this is just my personal opinion on it.

I don’t think Gods infinitely divide every time a group of people moves somewhere else and develops a different culture. It makes much more sense to me that the same God can have different names, stories, characteristics, and ways of being worshipped across different cultures while still being the same God.

But of course, not all Gods are the same just because they have similar functions. Perun and Thor, for example, are both associated with thunder and storms, but that alone doesn’t mean they are the same deity. Similarity isn’t enough to identify them as the same.

But if someone were to argue that Perun and Thor are actually the same God, understood by different peoples through their own cultural lenses, then we come back to that question: what makes the identity of a God stable enough for us to still consider it the same deity despite all those changes?

@OnReturningtotheOldGods