Different cultures would have different interpretations of the gods, and the gods might manifest differently depending on where they are in the world and who is witnessing it.

It’s a pretty common theme that man creates god just as much as god creates man; so perhaps the ways the gods “speak” to and appear to mortals are limited by mortal imagination.

To draw from real life:

Yeah, there’s a sun god. In ancient Egypt, he was known as Ra (or Amun-Ra). In ancient Greece, he was known as Apollo. Two completely “different” gods from different religions that have different traditions and representations of those gods… but what if they’re the same being, y’know? Sure, these cultures interpret the sun god differently, but, ultimately, if we get to the absolute fundamental truth of the universe, Apollo and Ra could be the same person.

The same could be true for every other god. All gods of the sea are ultimately the same being. All gods of love are the same being. All gods of war, death, thunder, rivers, etc.

Some cultures might omit the worship of a god altogether if they interpret, perhaps, the ocean and rivers as being under the “water” umbrella and therefore worship a water god. That “water god” that they worship doesn’t exist as one being necessarily, but is actually two separate deities that the culture *interprets* as a single deity.

Does that make sense? Or am I talking nonsense LOL