A Formula

Human are beings of potential

Paganism embraces the wide rangingness of that potential

The nature of the human animal is to move toward definition

to consider yourself in pantheon (the polytheist worldview) is to step outside of society (it's desires and strictures) and to consider yourself in context of the wider world

i guess you could say it's paganism as a concern for authenticity... conjuring a weird authenticity... beyond human concerns... or on the boarderland of human concerns