Compared with the other mythological systems, the mythology of South America was fundamentally different.
Basically, the gods were incarnations of nature, parts of the world. They could even be regarded as a kind of high-ranking spirit, merely existing at a different height and level from ordinary spirits.
However, the gods that appeared in South American mythology were different.
Their divinity had not actually been born on this planet, but had come from the distant cosmos.
They had originally been beings attached to asteroids. They came to this planet through phenomena such as meteors and meteorites, then survived by parasitizing life-forms.
In South America, people regarded the diseases caused by microorganisms parasitizing them as curses from the gods. There was even a custom of offering such people to the gods as living sacrifices. In the end, beings that had parasitized animals and caused them to change were regarded as divine spirits, with the process seen as the animals being possessed by gods.
In other words, to the people of South America, beings called gods were actually no different from microorganisms. The gods would often parasitize humans, using them to manifest on the earth and even build civilizations upon the land.
Thus, South American divinity was very unique. It maintained relationships of symbiosis and parasitism with humanity. When the gods of the other mythological systems withdrew from the earth and departed for higher dimensions, they merely ceased their activities and returned to the lands of the jungle, where they fell into slumber.
In other words, after the decline of Mystery, the gods of South America had not withdrawn. They had merely fallen asleep.
They were an extraterrestrial race from beyond the heavens. Even in the world after the Common Era began, some of them had been revived through special methods and continued