How could a polytheistic religion develop into a monotheistic

>>55062338
For a realistic version, the followers who prefer one god of the polytheistic religion find out that there are monotheists and think to themselves that their favored is a lot like the monotheist god they found and make it so

in lore that one god kills the rest and assumes their role, or all but one dies off in a Ragnarok scenario.

>>55062338
Look at the Hindu religion, all gods are just aspects of Krishna. If the Hindus decided worshipping the central being is better than the aapects, youd get something like the many faced god.
>>55062384
This is how Yahweh came to be

>>55062338
Ask your local rabbi

>>55062338
This one >>55062961
"It was a single many-faced god all along!"

>>55062338
God fight.

>>55062338
The normal way?

>>55062961
that's why I called it realistic, because that's probably what happened.

>>55062338
You could go with the No Game No Life route and have a godswar with only one survivor. Bonus points if they abstained from the fight and thus won by default, meaning one of the weakest or silliest is now the One True God.

>>55062338
Literally zoroastrianism.

In the end, Kroa, father of the abyss, killed and ate his father and brothers, and now rules this world with a iron fist.
How's that sound?

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>>55062338
war of the gods, last man standing.

>its the god of basket weaving. The war god got killed trying to tackle the sun god, and the both died in a fire ball. Now the empire uses baskets as hats and banned all bags and sacks.

>>55062338
In an effort to marginalize the priestly class and consolidate his power the King/Emperor identifies himself with the chief deity of the pantheon, either as a mortal avatar of the god or perhaps that the royal bloodline is descended from that god.

When state holidays coincide solely with the holidays of the chief god, the cults of the other gods will gradually decline until they become more like saints than proper gods. Over generations, those minor gods will be reduced to symbols or myths, while the main god persists.