Temples, churches, and synagogues are all houses for worshiping a god, but in reality, it's the divine races that own them. Humans and other races never get the name of the gods correctly, as they are all not aware of the truth of the world. They didn't even know that they were serving a divine race and not the gods, who are simply the landlords.
The divine race doesn't care if they are acknowledged, while the gods won't need to be acknowledged because it will hinder the game they are playing.
Ernesto only had one close goddess he knew for all the twenty lives he had. It was the goddess Iyyah, and there are a few things he discovered about the caring goddess.
Goddess Iyyah had her own temple at Tagiti even though the divine race was the only one who needed to build for the purpose of making the world in order.