In the context of the global religious interaction of the early modern period, and in relation to the narratives of the gods of the other peoples and societies that Europeans and especially the missionaries working in the name of Christianization depicted and created, those gods were essentially subjected to demonization. In this process, the gods, spirits, and ancestors of non-European cultures were assigned to the categories “good” or “evil” and, in the case of the latter, defined almost exclusively as “demons”, an act that in the early modern period was particularly explosive (D…