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he probably believed that he was divine.
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And so he had a god father, he had a human mother,
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and so then he would identify himself with whoever was a god
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in the different places.
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So he would identify himself as a Greek god with a Persian god.
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He would identify the goddess Isis with some Greek goddess.
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And so all the time these different gods from different places
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were basically all said to be simply different cultural
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representations, different names,
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for what were generally the same gods all over the place.
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Also, though, what they would do is sometimes
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they wouldn't try to simply say these gods are the same.