"Of course we're just faces of the Grand Divine! But so are you! And so is everything, so that's just silly. You don't go up to your grandmother and say, 'You're just a mask for the family, and that's all,' when you first come up to her, do you?"

That's a wonderful way to put it! I struggle, sometimes, to describe monolatry/monism (pick your favorite term for a sort of soft polytheism) and explain that "yes, the gods are all aspects/pieces/facets of a greater whole, but they're also very individual and distinct, and you wouldn't approach Aset the same way you'd approach Yinepu just 'cos she's 'only a facet'"... I've tried using a metaphor of ecosystem - it's all one ecosystem, and the components are just parts/components/pieces of the greater whole, but you still don't approach a wolf the same way you approach a rabbit.

The grandmother-mask-family descriptor is even better, I think. I'll have to remember that one. :)