All religions come from parts of previous ones. All "new" things come from parts of old things.

Catholics don't have multiple gods to pray to for a safe journey, or to get well, but we have saints for that.

It's a dialectic spiral, or ontogeny recapitaultes philogeny.

A culture is but a few people upon whose shoulders the rest of the populace stands and builds.

Always call the place you live a house. When you're old, everyone else will call it a home.