Having a Patron that most don't

[Setnusutekh]

The more I learn about the Vedic pantheon, the more I like. I think I might just have to stick to it/them.

I also have relationships with many from the Hindu pantheon My Hindu grandfathers saw to me attending pujas and learning a lot about it from an early age xD
Also, my country's culture is very Hindu influenced, (the Christian and Muslim influences are about the same as well), so it's a given to grow up knowing a lot about it.

[Setnusutekh]

I sometimes feel alone in worshipping Ausir. Sutekh is much more popular these days, and many people have a hard time working with both. Personally, I think it's worth the effort but it's a challenge. I won't deny that.

Ausir is...quiet. At least, compared to the more popular chaotic Gods. I mean, hells, if Sutekh wants your attention, you know. If Ausir does ask for more followers, maybe people don't notice. He seems to be OK waiting for people to come to Him.

He's very popular among Wicc-ish people who worship Him as the green man/harvest God. Of course, these folks have a limited understanding of who He is. Kemetics seem to have a harder time with him. He's not the "resurrected" God popularized by new-agers. He's a permanent resident of the Duat. I think some people are uncomfortable with that. I know it was harder for me to accept, in the beginning.

Set is an interesting topic as a patron, for me. Outside of Kemetism, He seems to be worshipped in Satanist-influenced circles (when I was doing research on Him, I was gobsmacked at how many I saw, and how hard it was to find Kemetic sites about Him) In Kemetism (I'm thinking, particularly KO here), I don't think He's particularly as popular as the Aset, Yinepu or Bast, but I've noticed a lot more than I would have expected.

However, His following in neo-paganism pales in comparison to those who follow Isis or Anubis... mostly because a lot of them think of Him as Egypt's Satan..

I also work with Ausir I did find Him very, very intriguing and quiet. He's come across as being rather formal, (Set hasn't demanded formal worship at all) and He's very welcoming. Being devoted to Set, I actually didn't find it hard to work with Ausir, but I would feel rather weird following Heru-sa-Aset, just as a personal thing.
I mean, for those of us who are divined as daughters/sons of Set in KO, Heru-wer always comes as a Beloved, but I also don't see a lot of people with Heru-wer as a patron, either.

Maybe I'm just horribly unobservant

[Garnet]

I mean, for those of us who are divined as daughters/sons of Set in KO, Heru-wer always comes as a Beloved, but I also don't see a lot of people with Heru-wer as a patron, either.

I'm not KO, and He's not my patron, but I am devoted to Heru-Wer (and Set as well, in an odd outskirts-of-the-personal-pantheon way.) I understand each of Them best through the other.

[Ruadan]

My Patron God is Amaethon, which for me kinda puts me in a small group who actually honor him, as far as I know. I was just wanted to know if others honored deities that most people don't, or kinda felt like they were alone in honoring a certain God or Goddess.

I don't know any other pagans, and only rarley meet any, most of my interactions with other pagans are online, where I find almost no-one aware of or connected to pre-Celtic Ireland, Of the Gods I worship most do appear in name in the myths of the Gaels and Celts, but only through painstaking nerdy research can one get a glimpse of what they may hae been before.

[caelestisraven]

My patron goddess would be Persephone... I've followed her for years and I've never encountered another who worked with her. Though lately, I feel Hekate getting closer and more focused on me.. O_o

I also follow Persephone I have met a handful of others also dedicated to Her though not a ton.

One thing this topic makes me think of is that I was just talking to a friend about statues as I found some just amazingly beautiful statues of Artemis. But some of the other deities out there you just can't find any.

[spoOk]

I also follow Persephone I have met a handful of others also dedicated to Her though not a ton.

One thing this topic makes me think of is that I was just talking to a friend about statues as I found some just amazingly beautiful statues of Artemis. But some of the other deities out there you just can't find any.

I worship the moon as the moon,with no real gender,no human shape or form and no real solid gender. I've even got my own name for it too.
IZE. pronounced 'is a'.
I've never run into anyone else whose done soothe way I do.
when initially started worshiping the moon it was well before the Internet was mainstream or before I decided to look religions up in a library.
I did stuff that came to mind.
things todo with tying feathers to trees as prayers or wishes etc.
it's slowly morphed as I looked stuff up into my current more solid form of worship.
and I've also gained a few other folks (hekate and legba) along the way.
but still my moon worship seems to be distinct and different from any Wiccan etc thing I've run across.
looking dietys up in books etc always threw me off when there were multiple dietys all meant to represent the moon or be moon related.
O.o
they feel to me like a 'go between' and not the actual moon itself.
which is why I originally sought a dark moon deity. I felt that time of the cycle was powerful,but with the moon not showing its face I needed someone else to work with as it were,someone who WAS there in that time.
hence the long road to hekate.
legba has since worked his way in and I'm still just finally seeing how he fits into the big life/worship puzzle for me.

[Katsura]

Flidais

I think I may be the only one in the world.

Ive been very interested in Flidais for some time but its sooo difficult to find information on her, i have some tidbits here and there.

Also i do honor Elen of the ways, i have met a few people who worship her too but only a handful.

[Ladywhitewolf]

Set is an interesting topic as a patron, for me. Outside of Kemetism, He seems to be worshipped in Satanist-influenced circles (when I was doing research on Him, I was gobsmacked at how many I saw, and how hard it was to find Kemetic sites about Him) In Kemetism (I'm thinking, particularly KO here), I don't think He's particularly as popular as the Aset, Yinepu or Bast, but I've noticed a lot more than I would have expected.

However, His following in neo-paganism pales in comparison to those who follow Isis or Anubis... mostly because a lot of them think of Him as Egypt's Satan..

Set is my patron. I find that there are many Pagans that think of him that way: as the Egyptian Satan. I believe the Gods/Goddesses come into a person's life for a reason. Still not sure why I connect so strongly with him. Sekhmet is another deity I am drawn to. I don't consider the Morrigan my Goddess but I am feeling very connected to her.

[Kayah]

My Patron God is Amaethon, which for me kinda puts me in a small group who actually honor him, as far as I know. I was just wanted to know if others honored deities that most people don't, or kinda felt like they were alone in honoring a certain God or Goddess.

My Patron God is.. well, I can't tell you his name because the one I have identified Him by is not the right one that I am allowed to use. It is a feeling of, I must find His name in my native tongue, and until I do, I cannot name Him publicly/out loud. However.... He is the Wendish/Slavic dragon god of wealth, sorcery and magic, musicians, dancers and other creative types. Because of Him I do not worship during the full moon, but celebrate the dark moon. It is as if the energy is reversed and what most people associate with the Dark/waning moon, is to me the energy of the Full/waxing moon. He is associated/bunched in with Weles, but I can now say with certainty that the two are not related by much other than both are associated with the underworld/root of the world tree.
To make things very fun, a lot of my worship is based on UPG with a very strong indication that I must find the scholarly/root/folk sources of what I am doing..

Oddly enough, having tried to run away from what I thought of the typical Pagan thing of having a God and a Goddess to worship, I end up doing just that, and my Patron Goddess is Brighid as a patron of the arts (not an uncommon deity). To tie things up in a very nice bow - I do not consider myself an artist at all... I am an accountant

[Senola Kari]

My Patron God is Amaethon, which for me kinda puts me in a small group who actually honor him, as far as I know. I was just wanted to know if others honored deities that most people don't, or kinda felt like they were alone in honoring a certain God or Goddess.

I have just now begun to work with the Assyro-Babylonian (Sumerian, Babylonian, Akkadian) pantheon, and I have been able to find very few others that do. The whole pantheon is really obscure and it gets the most ire from fundamentalist Christians, because its gods are mentioned in the bible. Yet I am really drawn to it, I really love it. It is so beautiful, especially the story of Ishtar and Tammuz. (I put up a discussion on another pagan site, asking why on earth people seem to hate Babylon and its deities so much nowadays; I have to do a filtered search in order to get anything of worth.)

Kali has appeared to me many times during my parents' separation (which has since ended...for the fourth time). I know someone who works with Kali also.