What do people feel about the idea of naming gods? The reason I am asking is that many of the beings I work with don't have names, either because the names they once had are long forgotten, or because they were perhaps never named.
Where possible I use Celtic names for local deities simply because inscriptions to them left by the Romans while they were here, are all we have left to identify these beings. I say that I worship 'Celtic deities' but I don't really mean that. These deities were here long before the Celts assigned them names. Those people just recognised their presence.
For now I am speaking to 'the god of...' such as 'the god of the Powburn' and so on, but I'd like to give them names for ease of speaking with them, and because using only titles feels a bit distant. Do you think that would be weird? Or indeed arrogant. I have this belief, left over from my kemetic days I think, that names have power and naming something or someone gives you power over them. So I'm a bit conflicted on this. How have others tackled the issue of not knowing local deities by their names?
If I were to name them, I'd likely look into modern Celtic languages and try to name them for the thing they are, hoping that the word I go for is at least similar to the words the local Britons might have used.
Where possible I use Celtic names for local deities simply because inscriptions to them left by the Romans while they were here, are all we have left to identify these beings. I say that I worship 'Celtic deities' but I don't really mean that. These deities were here long before the Celts assigned them names. Those people just recognised their presence.
For now I am speaking to 'the god of...' such as 'the god of the Powburn' and so on, but I'd like to give them names for ease of speaking with them, and because using only titles feels a bit distant. Do you think that would be weird? Or indeed arrogant. I have this belief, left over from my kemetic days I think, that names have power and naming something or someone gives you power over them. So I'm a bit conflicted on this. How have others tackled the issue of not knowing local deities by their names?
If I were to name them, I'd likely look into modern Celtic languages and try to name them for the thing they are, hoping that the word I go for is at least similar to the words the local Britons might have used.
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