cont.  anyways, as a conclusion, those gods are not silly, they were just natural forces that human battled with. when facing a bear attack every year, they probably abstractized the idea of a bear attack a in an evil bear god that kills people, but if avoided by making sounds, people would be left alone - thus they come up with a sort of dance ritual that involves loud songs. people don't "worship" the bear god, they just respect it as a deadly hazard. other gods can be simply other great men: their writings and ideas and such. so these gods are real as much as abstract concepts like numbers or the value of 0 is real. they are real in our minds. some of them gods are obsolete (like the bear god above), simply because we aren't battling forces of nature anymore. but it doesn't make them silly, stupid or unreal.
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