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    Identifying Deities

    From a very early point in my pagan Path I developed the idea of two main deities (male and female) which has probably stemmed from my research into Wicca. I can always refer to them almost as a second set of parental figures when I need help with anything. I've prayed to both aspects (together or individually) throughout the last couple of years when I've needed help in for particular problems that each personification could deal with.
    However, they're not the triple Goddess or Horned God. I don't know who they are and I don't know how to identify them. I've referred to them by so many names from multiple Pantheons and no names as of yet have stuck. I feel like I'm at an impasse where I want to have a more involved role worshipping them than a simple prayer here or there, yet they're completely anonymous to me (bar their presence, which I can always feel) and as such I don't know how I can honour them properly.
    I don't know if they're Omnipresent or just two aspects from a Pantheon, I don't know if I'm missing a point somewhere. It's really frustrating me. :=(:

    To which I ask does anyone have any advice to give or ideas to share? I'm scanning through older threads on similar topics but none are really addressing the same issue for me

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    Re: Identifying Deities

    If you are aware of them, then they are aware of you. Do you really need names other than God and Goddess? If they felt you did, they'd probably have arranged for you to find out!

    In Ancient Greece, on the island of Samothrace, they worshiped a pair of Gods that they just called the Great Gods. There was a mystery cult that people traveled to be initiated into from all over Greece. But nobody knew their names, not even the initiates, and no-one seems to have cared.

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      Shrug, start with the simple option. Ask their names. If this fails, ask what they wish to be called.
      life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

      Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

      "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

      John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

      "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

      Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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        Re: Identifying Deities

        Maybe they are a God and Goddess of whom we don't remember the names from. A lot of deities and names got lost through history, so most of us only honour the Gods and Goddesses that we still remember. You could ask their names, but if they don't respond I don't think they would mind if you just call them God and Goddess.

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