Call Me Maybe

Question: Can gods still pray to other gods to attract their attention? That seems really odd.

Indeed, they absolutely can. While this does look a little odd to us because we generally associate praying with mortals who are worshiping gods, it actually happens all the time in myth; sometimes the other Devas pray to Vishnu or Brahma to intercede on their behalf, for example, or the Yazata pray to Ahura Mazda for aid. Pretty much any time a myth says that one god "called on" another from a distance, they're probably praying to them. You'll see it more in the mythology of religions in which prayer was a more common practice (which is why the not-really-prayin'-much Norse, for example, really don't go for it much), but it's definitely not limited only to the fragile communication of mortals.

So gods certainly can pray to one another, and if they have Hear Prayers, hear one another, too. However, it's important to remember that praying is a specific sacred act of communion with a deity, and should be treated as such; it's not like calling on a cell phone or shooting off a quick voicemail. We require that any god-level Scion who wants to pray to another god actually commit to it, addressing the god formally and respectfully as the divine being they are; "O Sowiljr, lord of the frozen sun and spirit-twin of the bear, I, Terminus, beg of you to bestow upon me your aid in this time of trouble," is fine, but "Hey, Geoff, come save me" is not. If you want to address a god through the sacred vehicle of prayer, you're going to have to treat them with the respect a sacred being is due.

Some of our PC gods actually refuse to call on others for this reason - Sowiljr has point-blank refused to pray to Maquicelotl in the past, even when he really needed to talk to him, because he wasn't about to pretend he liked or respected the guy, while others have preferred to use Hand Off, Telepathy or other methods of communication to avoid having to talk to rivals as if acknowledging their awesomeness. Others simply shrug and pay their respects as they would to any god; it's all in the political and social perception a god wants to present.