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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7156188" data-attributes="member: 6689464">[/Tangent]Well, Catholic saints don't really work like that. They aren't considered deities, nor worshiped. A saint is a virtuous person who is confirmed in liturgical canon to be in Heaven, as such they are held as examples of virtue and intercessors between God and the faithful. The prayers of the saints are full of &quot;beg for us&quot;, &quot;pray for us&quot;, &quot;supplicate for us&quot;, and &quot;pray with us&quot;. [/Tangent]&nbsp; &nbsp; Now in polytheism, this special relationship isn't really that common. People pray(ed) to the proper god at the required times, and worship of certain deities is more common in certain cities or certain sects. In certain religions there is a deity that shape your fate according to your birth date, and then another that protects your family or clan. And another for you profession -that more often than not you inherited-, then the city deity, the tribal deity, and all the ones that are important because they work on key moments of your life. Basically when a deity becomes someone's patron it becomes the stuff of legends -like legendary emperors Minos and Ce Acatl Topiltzin, or heroes like&nbsp; Jason and Odiseus-.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7156188, member: 6689464"] [/Tangent] Well, Catholic saints don't really work like that. They aren't considered deities, nor worshiped. A saint is a virtuous person who is confirmed in liturgical canon to be in Heaven, as such they are held as examples of virtue and intercessors between God and the faithful. The prayers of the saints are full of "beg for us", "pray for us", "supplicate for us", and "pray with us". [/Tangent] Now in polytheism, this special relationship isn't really that common. People pray(ed) to the proper god at the required times, and worship of certain deities is more common in certain cities or certain sects. In certain religions there is a deity that shape your fate according to your birth date, and then another that protects your family or clan. And another for you profession -that more often than not you inherited-, then the city deity, the tribal deity, and all the ones that are important because they work on key moments of your life. Basically when a deity becomes someone's patron it becomes the stuff of legends -like legendary emperors Minos and Ce Acatl Topiltzin, or heroes like Jason and Odiseus-. [/QUOTE]

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