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Random mermaid
She cares not if her words are silent whispers, never to be seen by any caring eyes, everyone gone, gone, floating gently on coloured light, insubstantial - Dead? In the far reach of the universe a lone feline slumbers. Layered in Nightmares, she Dreams.

Those are just words. Before the word came into existence people still believed in a god or gods. You do not need polytheism or anything else to believe in a god or gods other than that belief.