Scrolling contained in myths from around the world, it seems clear that, apart from the crowd of deities from time to time indicated, at least two figures are, broadly speaking, very important to consider: a god "creator" and a god "civilizing".
Often, these two personalities are reflected in a single subject, which then rises to the dual function of creation and civilization of human beings.
In fact, the two figures, understand, interact with each other and having different powers, generally do not hinder.
And 'therefore quite normal, even sensible, that, over time, the myth has merged the two divine subjects, even for realistic reasons attributable to the practice of worship itself.
This happens, of course, in the monotheistic religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Zoroastrianism all.
On monotheism could be written to no end.
Clearly, here, is not our intent.
We will provide, below, some basic information, just to give the reader curious what is necessary to understand something.
The concept of a single deity is virtually absent in non-literate peoples.
The first instance of monotheism in the history of the ancient world back to the fourteenth century BC and takes shape in Egypt with the god Amon Ra, Aton, which becomes associated with the Sun (in the famous religious reform undertaken by the eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep IV).
Spreads, some six hundred years later, in Asia Minor, with Judaism and Zoroastrianism.
In a later period we find Christianity and Islam.
However, in all these forms of religion, God Almighty is always countered by a figure representing evil.
Many are also supernatural beings that are considered minor deities and derivatives, that derive their powers from the supreme God: among these, we recognize, of course, angels, cherubs and saints.
At other times, and here we begin to take care of polytheism, in addition to the "creator" and "civilizing", and many curious characters who appear, although part of the entourage of God, do not have the same importance.
Their peculiarity is inherent in being specialists, each in certain branches of knowledge.
Here we encounter a multitude of deities occupying the thoughts and prayers of the people who have gone before: the Sumerians, Egyptians, Mayans, and so forth.
It emerges that the man of the past, someone still considered "primitive", had well-focused, in his mind, the powers that each assommava gods, so they can pinpoint the god to be worshiped as needed.
In so doing, at the same time, our ancestor was to achieve a real pantheon, equipped with a hierarchical structure well defined, within which each deity know what to do.
Should we say, considering the role of actors (gods on one side and men on the other), reversing the overall vision and relying on the origins of the myth (the hypothetical first 'event' of these superior beings), that deities themselves, willingly or unwillingly, had instilled into the human imagination, a number of key factors in the formation of idolatry.
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