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Explanation: The Roman pantheon is often equated to the Greek pantheon, to the point of being accused of stealing their gods wholesale from the Greeks. The reality is more nuanced, but the Roman practice of interpretatio (also stolen from the Greeks), seeing all the pantheons of the world as fundamentally the same forces worshipped under different names, and the practice of Romans literally stealing gods from their enemies, muddies the waters a bit.
Both being Indo-European peoples, it's normal that their gods would be similar.
Only because Ganesha lost the fight to conquer the western faith. But hey, it got the asians with far more carefulness to the temples!