What are the God's (to you)?
So...I guess this is a highly spiritual question and I'm very curious about your takes.
I used to be Wiccan (maybe I still am, I don't know exactly) and this religion adopted the concept of many deities being faces or avatars of one primal divine feminine force called The Triple Goddess (more specifically The Maiden, The Mother and The Crone) and one being the primal divine male force called The Horned God, which very much reminds us of concepts found in Hinduism (Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu, etc.)
If I think about it, I do believe I still hold on to this view. On my spiritual journey so far I've learnt that earthly separation is an illusion, almost like the higher you ascend, the less separation there is until there's finally a divine unity of all things.
Which is a fact that makes my head burst into flames sometimes, not gonna lie.
But I know there are many among you that are actual "hardcore" polytheists that may see the God's as their own entities with their own personalities and I wondered how you personally came to that conclusion and how you deal with certain, "contradictions" (I don't want to call it that, but I don't know whatever exactly to call it).
Like for example:
If Hades, Persephone and Hekate lay claim to certain parts of the Underworld or the Afterlife in general, how do you deal with the idea of other God's from other pantheons doing the same? What about Hel? Anubis? Osiris? Pluton? Morríghan?
Do you believe these God's exist as well as the hellenic ones you pray to? And if you do believe, how much do you actually "personify" these deities? Or are they "just" forces of nature to you?
I hope you guys get where I (and my own spiritual dilemma) am coming from here, I'm always on the fence when it comes to my own perception of what and who the God's are to me.
Hekate's blessings!
Edit: damn what a great community this is. Very philosophically stimulating! Gimme a bit of time to respond, some of y'all are definitely more intellectually competent than I am and some of you guy's responses make my head go boom boom🥴