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I see your point there, but I personally think that it's impractical to only honor deities of one tradition.

For instance, suppose you have decided to only work with ancient Greek deities. Fine.
Well, a few months later you start having some problems cutting down on your chocolate intake. You want to stop eating 2 bars of chocolate a day (BIG bars) and you want to have a little ritual to help you keep your chocolate intake under control. Great idea. Only problem is, you'd like to call on a deity associated with chocolate. The ancient Greeks had no access to chocolate, and therefore had no deity of chocolate. The Aztecs did, but you believe that it's disrespectful to 'mix and match' deities. So, you struggle to keep your blood sugar levels from spinning out of control without any spiritual gidance to back you up.

I don't mean to bash what you were taught, that's just my opinion. Personally, I'm perfectly happy with my patron Goddess being Xi Wang Mu and my patron God being the Green Man. I enjoy working simultaniously with Zeus and Quetzalcoatl, Bast and Odin, Brigit and Min.
But, to each their own, I suppose.

That's a bit silly, don't you think? If you have problems with, say, water, (be it flooding, or contamination, or a simple strange taste) you wouldn't avoid water gods because you need help, or because they don't fit within a set. Rather, I feel that it would be rude to the gods you worship to use them "exclusively", as if they should be cut off entirely from the rest of the divine beings.

Take yourself for example. If I wanted to be friends with someone, and they told me, "Well, you aren't Nordic, so I'm sorry, you're of no use to me." I know I'd be pissed. Wouldn't you? And to not call on someone who knows what you're dealing with is downright foolish. You don't say to someone, "You know to much about the water I'm having trouble with, so I'm going to call on this other god, who doesn't really fulfill the requirements of what I'm asking him to do, but my ancestors worshiped him, so I'm sure it'll be just fine."

Or do you say that...?

Love and Vale,
-LD

Yeah.. Heh she got to the point a lot quicker then I did.

Plus I don't mean to offend anyone, but I believe PERSONALLY, not trying to push it on anyone else, that if I choose something, I'm going to stick with it, learn it and apply it. Not flit off whenever I can't get the right answer.

I try not to take the easy way out.

I belive in many but personally only use two, one representing feminine and the other masculine.