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In Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God, two communities came together to create new gods for Umuaro to worship. How did Igbo conception of gods differ from Abrahamic religions that it was acceptable to "create" new gods? Would that cause neighboring villages to consider new gods false/heretical?

by /u/mareish in /r/AskHistorians

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