The root word for the Sanskrit 'devas/devies' is 'div', which literally translates to "Shining One". The root word for 'angel' and some of the angels' names Michael, Raphael... - is 'el', which literally translates to "Shining One." The word 'el' is taken fro the Elohim that are frequently mentioned in the Bible and comes from Sumerian mythology. Malaikah are angels. According to Graham Hancock and his book Fingerprints of the Gods, some 495 cultures across time and geography - the Mayans called them the Viracochas and the ancient Irish called them the Tautha de Danaan or Children of Diana - spoke of the very same beings. Other than the Abrahamic religions I'm not aware of any others that worship a single God and those other religions would have had either a pantheon or no God/gods at all. The Shining Ones were worshipped as gods because of their wisdom and knowledge and were actual, living people so the forces/deities actually existed. That's the difference between God and those 'forces'.

God can be traced back, via Constantine and Zoroaster, to the Sumerian Enlil although some have said Marduk. For the most part the Old Testament God is an interaction between Enlil and Enki, and is based on the Tales of Gilgamesh.

While that may not be as wonderful as believing God is working miracles with ancient mankind, the wonderment is that in an age when there was supposedly no interaction between people who couldn't have possibly travelled the distance, there were people who had obviously travelled the distance. Exactly the same stories - barring language - were emerging across cultures and the barriers of geography through thousands of years. There was something else going on at the time that was far more Spiritual - and in terms of a global collective consciousness - going on thousands of years ago when there was no internet. It certainly makes me wonder.