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To me it just seems like egregores.
An egregore is a psychic entity. Like Santa Clause. If you tell your children to be good or Santa won't bring them presents. The belief in the myth of Santa enforces behavior on them over long periods of time. It's structure manifested by belief in the egregore Santa. So even if Santa isn't real in the physical sense, it's real in the psychic sense that it's a concept that influences the real world behaviors of men and women in real life. We're processing these egregores through religious experience.
I think of it sort of like apps that you can install on a computer. The computer is my brain/soul and the apps I can install are the gods, and most people are like apple customers who only want to use their one true Apple product, and no other apps are real apps. Well I see it more as a buffet of apps I can install. Sure each app will be taxing on my brain/soul, using some of it's resources, but the benefits are real. So then we can analyze the various belief systems for ones that will synergize and create complex dyads and triads. In ancient times this is probably why advanced societies had whole pantheons of gods, because it would broaden the potential of human expression to have this mythical ideal for each concept in life.
These days we substitute faggy capeshit movie magic for pantheons of inspiring mythical egregores. It's a sad substitute that demeans us as humans. We should aspire to higher ideals and a more perfect aesthetic.
