Answer:
Monotheism sees a unique source , origin or God while Polytheism assumes there is no single God but gods, and or godesses.
The notion of a Creator, a God or a origin has cultural, linguistic and conceptual limitations that shape our perception of the beliefs we have and other culture's religions.
Explanation:
Most of the European and Western countries adscribe to ancient Abrahamic religions. The Christianity, Jewish and Muslim world often represents God as a male, an ultimate ruler, designer and active force in the Universe he created.
While in Orient other religions consider the interaction between Gods like the Hinduism the active forces behide the supernatual and phsical world (Shiva, Brahman,Vishnu), others like Buddhism teach philosophical principles that often sincronyze to form religion cults like Zen Buddhism.
Not only in Asia polytheism is widespread, in Africa and American indigenous races the practice of worshing gods in elements of nature is common. The natural phenomena like the rain and the stars often are given worship as separate gods.
A suggested way to conciliate this appearing conflict is to go deeper in the inter cultural and inter religious dialogue, in many cases it can be found that polytheistic systems also search for a unique and supreme force behind all. Some similarities arise in the very first depictions of the creation of mankind, universalism as a religious movement tries to conciliate this views in search for higher truths.
