which where the first type of gods polytheist or monotheist?

Question

i was thinking about the same thing
but don't u also see a evolution ocuring
from early polytheist which where realy diverse to it slowly being to atribuite more characteristics until monotheist

i'm curios i don't see any christians
they usualy lash out when they hear these typs of questions

oh look there's one

oh look there's one

Answer 1

Polytheism was first. Monotheism happened much later.

Answer 2

The usual view is that Polytheism evolved into Monotheism. But it is also possible that neolithic man worshiped the sun as a single Deity. In the Golden Bough, religion is said to begin as a form of sympatheic magic, and turns into Polytheism once the magical practices are ritualized into a more abstract mythology.

Answer 3

Polytheist worship came first.

10000 BCE. Venus of Willendorf.

Monotheism came about in 5000 BCE.


- 16 yo Pagan

Answer 4

The first deities worshiped in most places were Mother Goddesses. The miracle of birth is a wondrous thing, and magic was tought to be involved. Then gods were used to account for various things such as thunder, illness and such. Most historians will say that a fertility or mother Goddess was usually first, then multiple gods and goddesses, and finally a male solitary god as in Christianity.

Currently, there is a growning trend among neopagans to bring back the mother goddess and / or many gods.

Answer 5

Someone above said that Judaism was the original monotheism but that is not correct. The Egyptians had “one god” way earlier, and they worshiped him during the time of one particular pharaoh and then they reverted back to polytheism. Judaism borrowed much of its stuff from earlier religions; Christianity borrowed virtually everything.

Answer 6

Well that is debatable. Most tribes are polytheistic. But there are exceptions. There were tribes in Australia that were agnostics. There were sun worshipers that really only had the Sun. But most tribes are polytheistic, so the odds are.....

Answer 7

Polytheist.

Ancient people needed gods to explain why things were they way they were, they needed religion to unify them to all work towards a single goal.

Answer 8

Genesis 1:1 "In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth." God says that "I am, that I am." God says "I am God and their is no other god." What does man not understand about "In the beginning God?" All the other gods are false gods with false doctrine. God said in His Word the Holy Bible that He is the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the end. No one came before God. Long before the Koran was written the Jews had the Torah. Long before Semiramus the wife of Noah's grandson invented all the gods and goddesses along with the fallen angels of evil Satan, there was God. God created Satan and Satan's evil counterparts. Before the flood of Noah many giants lived which were different from man. Noah brought the stories of these that God killed into the new world along with his family. To keep from obeying God evil will always invent a new religion.

Answer 9

Deidre is correct. Even in Hinduism there is debate that the Mother Goddess was worshipped before the male trinity (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva).

Answer 10

The "Primitive Religions" were born in the five Continents, more than 3,000 years ago, mostly in the form of "ANIMISM", because they believed that everything has a "soul", an "anima" in Latin, a "spirit"... including animals, plants, rocks, mountains, rivers, stars... each "anima" is powerful, spiritual, that can help or hurt them, including the souls of the dead, the "ancestors".

Answer 11

Polytheist. Trust me.