What's wrong with mixing and matching in spellwork? Whatever goddess/god calls to you, you might as well invoke, whatever their ancestry. If a Greek can marry a Scandinavian (it's certainly happened), why shouldn't their respective people's ancient gods show up in the same ritual?

If both goddesses want to come in, it would be. The question is whether they would.

The rituals I've participated in have usually entailed calling in a goddess and god, by any name, from any pantheon. And surely you know the "Isis, Astarte, Hecate, Inana" chant? Deities may have different names in different pantheons and be more or less the same.

I suppose it makes sense not to call in deities who would be at cross purposes. But surely deities from different pantheons could cooperate if their attributes balance each other's.

The pantheons we know are the result of mixing and matching, but it happened centuries ago. Whenever polytheistic cultures meet, they exchange gods along with cultural mores and physical genes. The Norse ended up with two sets of gods, each with a different cultural ancestry. The Greek pantheon grew out of a collection of smaller local gods, not all of whom were necessarily worshipped by the same original people. The Romans adopted Greek gods and gave them Roman names, but also kept a few deities of their own. And to confound matters more, Christianity came along and redesignated many of the gods as saints, creating a new pantheon right there.

So if we call in gods from different pantheons, we're doing no differently than our ancestors.

Dec 19, 2010 -- 8:30PM, KeaErisdottir wrote:

Dec 19, 2010 -- 7:50PM, ManzanitaBear wrote:

So if we call in gods from different pantheons, we're doing no differently than our ancestors.

Nice rationalization.  However, it is disrespectful to do things in ritual that treat the Gods either casually or callously--which is what your post would have us do.

And what is casual or callous about calling in gods from different pantheons? If you feel drawn to/called by more than one, isn't that enough?

This caught my attention:

Dec 19, 2010 -- 7:50PM, ManzanitaBear wrote:

The rituals I've participated in have usually entailed calling in a goddess and god, by any name, from any pantheon. And surely you know the "Isis, Astarte, Hecate, Inana" chant? Deities may have different names in different pantheons and be more or less the same.

Are you one of the "All gods are one god and all goddesses are one goddess lot?

That would eplain a lot.  You know, I am myself and Kea is herself, and while we have a similar attitude on this one, we would both be fairly pissed if you decided we must be the same person.  I have the notion that the goddesses would have the same feelings about being considered adiquate substitutes for each other.