I was recently reading some anthropological book that mentioned the religious practices of a group of people living in the heart of Africa. At least in their traditional way of life, they lived in and off of dense forest. They are animist and also have essentially a god of the forest.

It got me thinking about how to think of gods/divinity in a plural sense. It would make sense that people who live within and depend upon a forest for existence would see divinity expressed through that forest. And this is where I think paganism departs from other religions like Christianity. One, I think we tend to hold our gods as more immanent in the world; they're not (necessarily) these transcendent, omnipotent Gods who exist as if in some higher dimension. They manifest, or give us the hierophanies that I think paganism is based in, through the world we as humans inhabit.

I've also been thinking it may be beneficial for pagans to embrace the notion that much of what we know is a human construct. I've spent a lot of time trying to resolve how there can be both Perun (a chiefly "thunder god" in Slavic belief) and Zeus, who is strikingly similar. I felt very resistant to think it might just be a matter of different cultures constructing their own ideas about Zeus/Perun. Like that would make not only my god, but also those of others, somehow less "real" if it depends so much on culture. But I'm coming around to thinking the human element of religion feels so inappropriate because I'm still in a bit of a Christian mindset (e.g., religion must be divinely-revealed and theocentric.)

That's how I'm starting to come around to the concept of plurality in polytheism at least. And also, seems like you're not the only one who writes things "too long." :P