Writing religion in fantasy II: Polydaemonism

The title is a touch gratuitous, but I came across the word 'polydaemonism' a few months ago, and this is as good an excuse to use it as any

I was going to start by saying that it's difficult at the remove of two thousand years to understand the state of mind of a worshipper of the Greek (take the and/or Roman as read, I can't be bothered to keep repeating it) gods. And then I thought: Only if you're Protestant – culturally or actually.

Protestantism has essentially no place-memory. There...