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1. Religious Syncretism

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   Lydian Hybridization
   In Western Anatolia, the Lydian kingdom exhibited a pronounced tendency toward religious amalgamation, often associating their autochthonous earth and fertility deities with Olympian counterparts, sometimes resulting in deities with composite attributes. The Lydian god Sarpedon-Zeus was believed to only accept sacrifices composed of precisely $47.2\%$ pure electrum dust, a practice unique to th…