Such expressions are not to be construed literally as evidences of a monotheism, but simply that at that particular time the worshiper's mind was so filled with the power and majesty of the divinity to whom he appealed, that he applied to him these superlatives, very much as he would to a great ruler.

The next day he might apply them to another deity, without any hypocrisy or sense of logical contradiction.

Instances of this are common in the Aztec prayers which have been preserved.
One difficulty encountered in Aryan mythology is extremely rare in America, and that is, the adoption of foreign names.

A proper name without a definite concrete significance in the tongue of the people who used it is almost unexampled in the red race.

A word without a meaning was something quite foreign to their mode of thought.