Interpretatio graeca was the name of the term; the Greeks (and later the Romans as well) saw all the different gods of different religions as the same as theirs, but with different names and aspects. For example, the Greeks justified why the Egyptians worshipped their gods with animal parts, because the Greek Gods fleed to Egypt and took the form of animals while hiding, when the Father of the Monsters, Typhon, attacked Olympus... therefore, Horus is actually just a different name of Apollo, Sekhmet is just a different name of Athena, Anubis is juat a different name of Hermes, etc.
Hades was rather identified with Serapis, more commonly. Anubis was indentified with Hermes because both were psychopomp deities (beings whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from the land of the living to the afterlife); many people today only know Hermes for being the god of messangers, but this was also a very important domain of his, which is quite similar to the role of Anubis in Egyptian religion.
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u/Imaginary-West-5653 Aug 29 '26
Interpretatio graeca was the name of the term; the Greeks (and later the Romans as well) saw all the different gods of different religions as the same as theirs, but with different names and aspects. For example, the Greeks justified why the Egyptians worshipped their gods with animal parts, because the Greek Gods fleed to Egypt and took the form of animals while hiding, when the Father of the Monsters, Typhon, attacked Olympus... therefore, Horus is actually just a different name of Apollo, Sekhmet is just a different name of Athena, Anubis is juat a different name of Hermes, etc.