I’m not a practitioner, but I’ve done a lot of reading on Voodoo.

African, Haitian, and New Orleans.

Often, at least in Haiti and New Orleans, Catholic saints are matched with a particular Loa (spirit, god, whatever you wanna call it)

This was due to Voodoo practitioners being killed for not being Christians in Haiti. Thus, they could worship Saint whoever visually, while still interacting with their own faith. It just traveled to the new world as people did.

The process is called Syncretism, and Voodoo is hardly the first or last instance of it happening.

As you mentioned, the church has done this too.

Easter? Eostre was a fertility deity associated with spring and rabbits.

Christmas? Yule.

It goes on.

Wait wait wait, did Judaism invent the basic concept of a checksum?

That is… very interesting. I know numerology and the like are very popular parts of Jewish occultism.

I’m a gamer, and I do…

Then again, I’m mostly excited about using CUDA cores for cracking hashes and the like, lol.