I think perhaps we are drifting off a little into the abstract, and losing sight of the theme. Isolated anomalies are fine, but a long string of exceptions threatens to obscure the rule. To recap:
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Originally Posted by Agemegos
- The gods are quite real, though you can't find them when they don't want to be found
- Each has a house in his or her city, they are known to lust, thirst, and hunger as we would all wish to if we were are as rich as gods.
- Each of the gods has a gift to give, ... It is a simple gift, such as "health"
- the gods don't get to link together an arbitrary set of advantages into a gift
- The gods don't get to choose what their gifts are
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Physical gods; animal appetites; simple gifts, not necessarily what the god would have chosen. These gods are not mythic allegories, personifications of natural or moral principles, abstract spirits, etc.
Also: early Bronze Age.