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ok, so, as is obvious, i don't know who the gods are. i know only that they are who i pray to, who i respect. not the Almighty One, God. in fact, i would love to know anything about what wiccan and paganism is realy about. please help me out with this, i am realy serious about this religion. i want to be .... connected with something. and i searched and searched, and researched whatever i could, and i am sure that i want to be wiccan. i love my planet, i love nature! and i love knowledge. i am aready also shinto, but that is so...empty...it's more like i a template, something that you .... customize another faith with. it's more like .... philsophy and mindset than actual religion.

ok, well that seems to be a start...i was hoping for some names and histories of some perticular deities....thank you, elf. do you know where i can find this information, or who to ask?

Another great place is Encyclopedia Mythica. You can search by region and country. Its where I get a lot of my information.

There's a huge number of gods out there from a huge number of different cultures (celtic, hellenic, aztec, egyptian, polynesian, roman, germanic, native american, moari, japanese, chinese, hindu, persian, carthaginian, scythian, incan, mayan, african, slavic, and thats all I can think of off the top of my head). I'd pick a culture you like, or even a culture at random and read up on its mythology.

Some gods seem familar and are easy to understand:

Ares, Hellenic God of War. Easy enough


Quetzalcoatl, Aztec god who gave mankind books and...maize?! Also this picture depicts the god in"human" form!

However I am not a Wiccan, so I'm not exactly sure how multiple gods of multiple cultures fit in