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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....