Here's a thing about gods that lots of folks, world-buildes and pagans alike, seem to miss sometimes:
Gods are people. People are complicated. Most folks I know resist being stereotyped as 'the movie guy' or 'that photography girl'.
Similarly, saying 'Oh that's the God of Writing' or 'Yay, love goddesses are great' cuts off a lot of the history and specifics and individuality that makes it possible to get to know, and work with, a particular deity.
@Ulfra_Wolfe I mean, go ahead, I guess?
@Ulfra_Wolfe @indi I'd love to hear it too, if you're comfortable sharing. If not, that's okay too. Your opinions matter.
@Ulfra_Wolfe Re: 'Huntress' vs 'Artemis'... From what I can tell, one of the things about that vast and confusing realm is that there are also no clear borders, but instead sort of a continuous semi-taxonomical hierarchy.
@Ulfra_Wolfe At the top you have your all-in-one depersonalized Godheads, with branches off for the named ones (YHWH, Allah, etc) and then it divides out into more conceptual spaces (Light, dark, love, fire, trickery) and those too have sheaves of names associated with them. And each name may itself have different epithets; realizing that the Greeks realized this thousands of years ago was a major boost to my own understanding here.
