>>39335
So here's the thing OP: You're full of shit.
But read on, because while I'mma call you out, I'm also going to explain myself.
To understand why this is silly, you have to consider the history of these religions. I'm versed in Germanic history so that's what I'll focus on. The people who settled Germanic Europe were called the Proto Indo Europeans. They came during a period of migration from the Indus River Valley. They brought with them their religious ideas, of course, but even theirs were ultimately inherited from those who came before them. The Indus RIver Valley civilization is what it is because of a coordinated agricultural effort. Today that may sound like a silly thing, but in their time, this was entirely revolutionary. It changed EVERYTHING about how people lived.
You see, previously, their ancestors had been closer to hunter gatherers. They were entirely at the mercy of the elements and society hadn't yet coalesced in a way you and I would really recognize. Because of this, there wasn't that coming togethe rof minds thing that leads to technological advancement yet. They were of the natural world, and they personified natural phenomena (The gods revealed themselves this way) in a general sense. To them, there wasn't a god of the river or a god of the wind. The river WAS the god, the wind WAS the god.
Fast forward to the Indus RIver Valley and there is considerably better shelter, and far better provisions because labor had become coordinated under agricultural purposes. To them, the elements were considerably less firghtening, though they were still at the mercy of things like droughts and water shortages, disease and soil wasting (Fertility issues). In their time, these gods became more anthropocentric. They retained some of the ancestors' ideas about them, but we're at a point by IRV civilizations that people no longer see the natural force as the god itself, rather they see it as an aspect or a tool of the god.
Now, moving ahead again to the Proto Indo European migrants, various groups settles in various parts of Europe. If you study the civilizations to the east of the Rhine, you see lots of commonalities in linguistics, religious figures and concepts, and cultural artifacts from the pre-Christian era. Europe was tremendously fertile, which is why it became the seat of semi global empires! Technological progress was comparatively rapid for them and as each civilization became more advance and more distinct from each other, these gods took on the flavors of the local culture. They became almost divorced from the ideas of their long lost ancestors' wind and river gods (though nature spirits of various sorts did still play a central role in their daily religious practices, in most cases more so than the gods did!).
So, you see, you're doing it backwards. The gods of pre-Christian Europe did not start out as people at all. They started out as a recognition of divinity in the natural world. European Paganism in general does not see the spritual as distinct from the natural the way Abrahamic religions do.
Whether you think this is how the gods revealed themselves, or maybe the ancients just didn't understand the complex world they found themselves in is up to you to decide. (I obviously hold to the former) But by all means, actually take the time to learn about this from academic sources. Pagan revivalism ill needs another perversion of its already devastated folkways with silly conspiracy theories that divorce the topic from its natural roots. We've already got /pol/tards glomming onto Germanic paganism for nativist reasons, and lazy new age teenagers practicing bastardized forms of celtic religions they cherry picked to pieces trying to appropriate Germanic tropes. Have a little respect.