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Although in a Christian context, Pseudo-Dionysius has an interesting image of The One/The Good as the point of unity in the center a circle, with the persons (in a pagan context, henads) radiating out from it, as the first participants in The One/The Good (obviously this is a meager comparison, as The One/The Good both informs and resists all such exercises). To push the comparison, though, the mythological representations of the gods would be further down along the lines, such that they diverge more from The One and each other, but the closer to the center they become, the closer they grow not only to each other but to The One/The Good itself. I thought this was a neat image, for what it is worth.

I believe Butler also recently identified an ancient Ares cult that hailed him for his prowess in divination, although this is another aspect that is often not attributed to him (sadly I cannot find the reference).