Polytheism is specifically the belief in a multitude of distinct and competing deities, each of which is to be worshiped on its own terms. I’d recommend that you start reading your Bible with that view in mind because many, many people of that time period, all the way through both Testaments, would have approached their world in a polytheistic way. And you hope, as you worship the heavens, that some of those gods—one of them or many of them—would be beneficent to you and give you a child or give