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I had a "Duh, why did I never think of that before??????" moment a bit ago.

All this time I've been feeling that the gods of my ancestors have rejected me. I'm of Sicillian, English, Polish and Lithuanian descent and have nnver felt any interest whatsoever to the gods of the Romans, the Etruscans, the Slavs or the Angles, Saxons or Celts, and never felt that they had any interest in me either. All this time I thought I was "looking elsewhere" when I looked to the Hellenic gods. The only part of my ancestry that I've really had a strong interest for has been the Sicilian side of my mother's family. And I chalked it up to bring intrigued by the big mystery surrounding one of my maternal great-great-great grandmothers, the one that first came to the US (yeah, that's still part of it...)

I knew before, but it never really clicked in my mind...Sicily was once a Greek stronghold.

There was a temple of Apollo at Sarausa, an altar to Apollo Archegetes outside of Naxos,

Also worshiped as Apollo Libystinus all over the island, and Apollo Temenites at Sarausa...

I haven't been rejected by the gods of the lands of all of my ancestors...I just never looked far back enough to realize that some of them were the same as the ones I worship now....

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[romulus214.livejournal.com]

i can sympathize with you-my family is portuguese, Lusitania is considered to be the ancestors of the portuguese-While i show an interest, i dont think they are interested in my, the gods of my ancestors-And you can say that the Lusitani had contact with the romans and greeks-so while i try to include them-I don't think they want me to-

So you aren't alone-

Maybe they will embrace us when the time is right.

[caletara.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of thinking the same thing. I always felt that I was pulled toward the Greek gods, but I wasnt Greek. My father's side is Lebanese, but we do have this great aunt whose italian. I need to ask where in Italy I think. ...but what I just learned is that theres one of the best preserved Roman temples to Baccus in Beirut. But I really dont do the Roman/greek intermixing thing. Maybe I'll dig up more.

But thats so cool, it was right next to you! Id always been wondering why it was Artemis and Apollo who Called to me instead of like, Baal.

[caletara.livejournal.com]

its very weird using the same icon :-)

But, I guess I njeed to look more into my Phoenicians ancestry and stop concentrating on how bizarre it is that I'm descended from 12 million monks.


....Im using a different Icon damnit*L*