User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-1758220-20120104034656/@comment-2049092-20120105212308

On the part of religion of the ancient societies of Monster Hunter I think that White Fatalis was revered. The reason being since it was given the japanese title of Ancestor Dragon. In most third world cultures being old is a good thing. If something is the oldest of them all, the very first, then it will probably be revered to a religious level. If that wasn't enough it has the power to call lightning from the sky. They'd think it was the most powerful thing in the entire world.

On the whole differences between the raths. I think Capcom has unofficially decided that the 3rd generation raths are truly canon to the series. So we may have been fighting them all along (just like villains from older series, Bowser, Ganon, and Ridley were really different in their creative designs when they were first created(just look at Ridley's art from Metroid 1 it looks totally different.) The only in game explanation that could've been used was that they were both from different areas and changed differently, but since Gold and Silver raths disprove that I feel like Capcom has just forgotten about the previous rath design.