Dominating Cultures are not Logical
Dominating cultures tend to freely appropriate ideas and traditions of the cultures that they dominate. They just add the gods of the people they have conquered to their already-existing pantheon - even when the mythologies clash and are logically incompatible, dominating cultures shrug. Thus, for instance, Genghis Khan's descendants were happy to adopt the cultures they dominated. The Yuan Dynasty took on Chinese customs and beliefs, Berke Khan became a Muslim, and so on - without hesitation. Often they believed great swirling mixtures of Tengrism, Buddhism, astrology, Christianity, and anything else they came across, all at once, without feeling any cognitive dissonance. There is always something sweetly naive about conquerors. Dominated cultures, on the other hand, seethe with resentment and hatred. They remember every infraction and count every penny they've been cheated. Not only hatred towards those who have dominated them - not eve...