Well if men were going around making up their own gods ... that might explain it.
According to the Book, the agents, bondservants or ambassadors of the Christ on the planet Earth would be all of the followers/believers. Maybe someone didn't read the right book? And according to quite a few, the bones (at St. Peters Tomb) that were allegedly Peter the Apostle's seem to be missing counterpart bones for the feet. Interesting thing is that the story about the way Simon Magus died is that he fell and doctors had to cut his feet off in an attempt to save him....