"Unlike today, however, in antiquity the average person might have specific relationships with deities of their family or ancestor group as well as their city, their profession, and even Netjeru that they might only talk to once a year on their special holidays. The desire to label or pigeonhole the Netjeru into single definitions of "X is the god of Y" like modern mythologists and others like to do was not so strong in a polytheistic world that fully embraced its diversity."

