Polytheism and the Battle of the Gods

Even in polytheistic cultures, there's a strong tendency for the gods to organize themselves in the hierarchy with one god at the top. In a monotheistic culture, all the other gods just disappear across time and there's nothing left but the top god. We don't know why the stories were edited together in the order that they were edded together, but we could infer it was because an editor thought they made senseThat's what an editor does. An editor tends to take diverse ideas and then to organize in some manner that makes sense....