>>16550516As opposed to just begin stupid enough to believe what someone else made up.
The would be pagan had to make his OWN shit up, or he's following about ten pages worth of information.
>>16550542And they didn't write very much of what they believed down, either.
Makes things a rather moot point. The only shit we really have in writing aside from the romano-greek gods is the norse, and we don't have much of the either.
We've got tiny, tiny fragments of various gallic beliefs from roman writers, but it's like picking up a few bits of sea glass and saying you have a fucking stained glass window.
You don't.