In ancient times why did people have so many gods?

Question

and why did each have their own seperate jobs?

Answer 1

The numerous gods were created to explain natural phenomena.

Answer 2

Having no grasp of scientific reasoning or the process of learning things through experimentation, they had to designate a god for each and every thing.

Fire? Fire god.
Rain? Rain god.
Lightning? You guessed it, lightning god.

The ideas of monotheism weren't even discovered until relatively recently in human history.

Answer 3

they had big inagintaion, and besides, one god isn't fun
in Greek mythology if there was only one god, there would be less action and excitement.
Early people first believed that a god had certain powers, one would control the sea, another the land, etc. i'm guessing that as each group of people contacted with each other, they exchanged ideas, and their gods. so there was more than one god

Answer 4

Religion is the sigh of the oppresed creatures, heart of the heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless conditions-it is the opium of the people.

Since they cannot explain the objective reality going on around them, they created the gods. It was the only explanation for everything, volcanoes erupting, sunshine, rain, thunder, death, sickness. ......... and it was their only solution

Answer 5

Different events in nature were seen to be caused by different gods. Different gods ruled over different parts of life.

Answer 6

They believed firmly in not putting all their eggs in one basket

Answer 7

cause they just didnt get it . man is designed to worship and since alot of them didnt/dont agree with the one and only true GOD they had to make up their own.