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>>7330360
>You're not entirely wrong, the whole point of the Downfall timeline is that even Faith on the gods has dwindled down, with foreign symbols starting showing up (like the christian cross) and while "Hylia" is a new character, you could argue she was already foreshadowed in Zelda 2, with the Trophy. It's supposed to depict a goddess in the FDS Japanese version and it looks identical to the Hylia statues in SS and BotW. She's a lesser God, one that looks over the world after the creator goddesses left, but yeah.
Hylia was definitely foreshadowed way back in ALttP when the Hylians were referred to as the people of Hylia, but I never noticed that the Trophy from Zelda II is a Goddess Status - that's apparently a translation of its name in the Japanese version - but ironically the English release looks more like what Goddess Statues would later look like with the hands together.

As for the Crosses, they were in the NES games and ALttP artwork of Hyrulean(?) Christ (when Link starts to pray/"wish" in that game he even does a cross motion!) but they almost appeared in Ocarina of Time judging by the leaked early tombstone texture so I'm inclined to think it's less the downfall timeline (also considering they're nowhere to be found in the other games in that timeline) and more the early games just took from real-world symbols like the Gerudo symbol and it was changed later to go in a different direction.