Apollo was the only "deity" who retained his original name after being transferred from the Greek divine system into the Roman religious system. Later generations mostly knew him as the Sun God of ancient Greek mythology, but in truth, this "deity" had originally been merely the god in charge of the arts in Greek legends. It was not until around the fifth century BCE that he was given the functions of the Sun God and god of light. After the Romans incorporated him into their own religious system, they did not give him a new name as they had with the other Greek gods. Instead, they directly retained Apollo's title and, through the later evolution of mythology, bestowed all sorts of functions upon him—music, medicine, prophecy, light, the sun... In the Roman mythological system, Apollo possessed a whole heap of divine authorities, which fully reflected the imaginative power of the masses of laboring people during that era, as well as...
The collapse of the Divine Kingdom.
The logic was simple. When the Thunder Giants on Mount Olympus—that is, the Zeus family—were still flourishing, they directly ruled the living beings upon the earth. Their existence was real and beyond question, so the mortals below naturally knew exactly which gods they worshipped and what powers those gods possessed. But after the Demon Hunter army broke through Olympus's defensive barrier, Zeus and everyone related to him for eighteen generations were dragged into the war and unable to break free. Naturally, they had no time to pay attention to earthly affairs. For several hundred years, contact with the Divine Kingdom had been intermittent, yet the priests on earth still had to find ways to maintain the status and influence of the gods they revered. In that case, apart from creating fan works about those