I'll ask here because I'm not wanting anymore for moderator approval.
If polytheistic people have a problem and they want to pray to the gods for help and they have multiple gods available who do they pray to? Let's use ancient Greeks as the believers and battle as the scenario. When Greeks were in battle did they pray to Ares? Athena? Or Nike? Maybe to their patron gods in case of isolated groups of people? Were the prayers regional or situational? Was it both or neither? I'm really intrigued in this topic because it's not really one people talk about or they just summarise it Into "people from Athens prayed to Athena and Spartans prayed to Ares". I'm really exited for the discussion in the comments. If any of you know more gods from the same religion that rule same or similar domains let me know.
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I'll ask here because I'm not wanting anymore for moderator approval.
If polytheistic people have a problem and they want to pray to the gods for help and they have multiple gods available who do they pray to? Let's use ancient Greeks as the believers and battle as the scenario. When Greeks were in battle did they pray to Ares? Athena? Or Nike? Maybe to their patron gods in case of isolated groups of people? Were the prayers regional or situational? Was it both or neither? I'm really intrigued in this topic because it's not really one people talk about or they just summarise it Into "people from Athens prayed to Athena and Spartans prayed to Ares". I'm really exited for the discussion in the comments. If any of you know more gods from the same religion that rule same or similar domains let me know.