Polytheists, do you see your gods as individuals or?
simply different personalities of One Spirit?
Do you worship from different pantheons or do you believe each of the gods from the pantheons are different?
Thanks in advance for your participation 
simply different personalities of One Spirit?
Do you worship from different pantheons or do you believe each of the gods from the pantheons are different?
Thanks in advance for your participation
Comments
Individuals, single pantheon---I'm exclusively Norse.
My feeling is that blood calls . . . that every culture/tribe had a separate group of what we all came to call "god/desses" with whom we interacted, and from whom we received distinctive gifts, as expressed in our resultant cultures and civilizations. And that these are OUR gods, tied to us by blood and soil and history.
That two gods have hammers, for example, does not make them the same god . . . it makes hammers a universally understood IDEA.
The stories are what we tell. The archetypes are how we understand. But beyond all these things are the godhs themselves.
I only worship gods and goddesses from one pantheon and I definitely see them as individuals. I have never bought into the one great spirit idea, and indeed, see it as another form of monotheism.
I see them as different aspects of a still higher level entity or entities. I'm thinking bitheism right now: all male deities resolve to God; all female deities resolve to Goddess. They make love, merge, and become the Universe.
But in the Kabbalah, there are still three levels above THAT!
And I haven't done anything I call "worship" since before My Steve died. LOL
I definitly see them as individual gods. I personally believe that we are decended from them. They each have their own personality, and are good at different things just like us. there isnt just one god of war, but there is one god that is better than the others. if that makes sense. With breakthroughs in modern science, and all the theories of such a huge universe, its not that hard to believe that the gods we love may have came from somewhere else. I just cant wait to meet them myself lol
Practically speaking, I'm a duotheist -- I believe that all Gods are aspects of one God and all Goddesses are aspects of one Goddess. More strictly speaking, I could be called a monotheist, because I believe that even this God and Goddess are aspects of a fundamentally unknowable Source.
However, "in the trenches", so to speak, the various aspects of God and Goddess certainly act like autonomous entities, and I usually deal with Them as such.
Um...yes.
Confusing I know.
But just as I have many names and titles, so does Divinity.
And while some know me by only one or two names or roles, while others are more conversant with my many facets, so it is with the divine.
For myself, I draw from many (I hesitate to say "all") pantheons.
I see them as individuals, not as aspects of another being. My gods resemble those from Celtic worship, although they are from different areas (the idea of a single Celtic religion is a misnomer).
Any good heathen will tell you that Odin, Thor, Tyr, Frey, and Heimdall are not the same gods, and that Frigga, Freya, Sif, and Idunna are not the same goddess.
There are many gods and goddesses. I follow the Norse ones.
I see them as an individual influence - for me they are not really Gods ,but they represent different parts and stages of my life!
Love an peace
i've got confidence the great Spirit involves each and every person in a distinctive way. To me i see the great Spirit involves me because of the fact the mother An Father. And the mother an Father have distinctive components additionally you be responsive to Aphrodite, Kali, Apollo,Oya,Danu,Bast,Isis,Zeus,Mars,and so on.... I additionally see the parents in Nature daily i've got confidence them in the Wind and notice them in the sky. Many reward