Unfortunately, many people become aware of the deities whose worship was widespread first, lending credence to Llewellyn’s claims. For instance, anyone briefly familiar with the Celtic pantheon will recognize the names of Brigit/Brid/Brighid/St. Bride and Lleu/Lugh/Lud as two representative deities worshiped by the Gaels. However, fewer people have heard of Sequanna, Scathach, Boand, Accios, Belenos, Bobh Dearg, Uintos, Aeron or Aine. That is because these deities were more often than not associated with a specific location, their worship was not widespread, and they most likely would not have been recognized as deities by tribes not in their immediate spheres of influence, let alone be considered simply another aspect of a Greek, African, Slavic, or Norse deity!  

     Deities also tended to fall in and out of favor. For example, Ra was at one time the supreme deity of Egypt. Later, his worship began to be eclipsed by the worship of Amun, but not before the two were combined briefly as Amun-Ra, in much the same way that Ra had been previously combined with a rival deity Horus, into Ra-Horakety, lord of the dawn. Likewise, Bast, the cat-headed Goddess of love, rejoicing, sex, music and pleasure was at some times and places known as either Pshat or Bastet. In any case, her worship was centered around her holy city of Bubastis. But the story doesn’t stop there. In other times and places in ancient Egyptian history, the Patroness of love, pleasure and the rest of it wasn’t Bast at all, but was instead recognized as Cow-headed Hathor, who was sometimes considered a Goddess in her own right, or other times simply an aspect of the Goddess Isis. Whew.  

      These examples are far from being anomalies in the ancient world. Anyone familiar with the study of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Celtic, Persian and other pantheons knows that deities were always falling in and out of favor, eclipsing one another, or being forgotten or adopted by various peoples. To insist that worship of all deities was concurrent and constant is a gross error. Furthermore, while there were certainly similarities between deities from different ethnic backgrounds, the concept of each Goddess being an aspect of a Great Triple Goddess, and each God an aspect of the Great God was unknown until it was introduced indirectly by pyschologist Carl Jung via his work with archetypes.