Traditions

In an Abrahamic prophetic tradition, it is necessary to be neither polytheist nor atheist but monotheist whereas, in an Indian contemplative tradition, it is possible to be polytheist, monotheist or atheist and also to reinterpret many gods as aspects of one personal or impersonal reality, thus either to advance from polytheism through monotheism to monism or to remain theistic. 

There is monotheism in some contemplative traditions and contemplation in some prophetic traditions.