DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT DEITIES, Patricia Turner and Charles Russell Coulter, Oxford University Press, Copyright © 2000 by Patricia Turner and the estate of Charles Russell Coulter, ISBN-13 978-0-19-514504-5.

Approximately 10,000 Deities' names listed, each of which at one time and place has been "the one true (best) God" for one or another of a significant number of people. ALL OF WHICH demanded rather similar "observances, moral codes, sacrifices and the like," and ALL OF WHICH promised (according to their priests) similar protections and benefits for their "true believers."

(Multiple names for what were essentially the same deities in different places/times reduces the number of distinct and separate ones to about 8,000.)

Take your pick if you need "something else" to take resposnsibility for your life, or take responsibility for yourself if you think you can.

John