I've developed quite an odd view on it, myself. I think God reveals God's name to people according to what they need and how they best interact. I explained this to Dad the other day when he was getting irritated with my insistence that I didn't have to abide by Christian terminology in order to interact with God.

I told him my view that God has revealed divinity to many different cultures, and the difference in mythologies is merely a difference in cultural understanding, because everyone seems to have the same basic stories. The only difference is whether the Godly nature is understood as pantheistic or monotheistic-with-many-facets. When he expressed doubt, I said, "Well, how many names and titles does God have in the Hebrew tradition alone? Why couldn't God have more names and titles than that in various cultural traditions?"

With that sort of a liberal take on things, I'm hardly in a position to argue whether it's heretical to call God by a trait-defined title. I mean, hello. *grin* One of my titles for God is "Sun King." Another is "Mother." It depends on the capacity in which we're interacting.

And for the record, I don't know if I've mentioned to you before (it seems like I have, but I don't want to assume that) that I recently discovered the word in Aramaic that Jesus used for "Father" is more accurately translated "Mother-Father-All-in-All." *grin*