(Part 10 is here.)
Where different religions come into contact, the resulting belief system inevitably contains a mixture of the features of both. It would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to explain this if the supernatural beings as described by either side had a basis in reality, but it is exactly what you would expect if all of them existed only as ideas in the minds of their believers.
I have already mentioned how Judaic angels took the bodily forms of Greco-Roman gods when the Greeks and Romans converted to an offshoot of Judaism, and how the jinn of Arabic folklore were absent from the Abrahamic religions until the Arabs assimilated Jews and Christians into their midst… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
by Daniel Kane, in a section on loanwords from Sanskrit:
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. I’ve thrown out the boxes, but kept the contents. I don’t know why they ship in such unnecessary large containers with so much empty space, but I guess it’s partly to protect the contents during shipping, and partly so that buyers feel that they’re getting their money’s worth. The boxes do look quite impressive sitting on a bookshelf, although they’re an enormous waste of real estate