saints and angels

now we come to the pinnacle of polytheism, and I will admit, not every sect of Christianity agrees with this aspect, or even believes in it.  However many do, and still use the saints for special requests for luck, fertility, safety, happiness, etc...  the saints in Christianity were not originally a belief of the religion but evolved as Catholicism tried to convert different pagan regions.  They were actual people, but when they achieved sainthood they become the patron saint of a certain aspect of life.  yo have saints that range anywhere from alcoholics, to barbers to earthquakes, to farmers, and so on and so forth.  You ave four saints of pregnant women, and two for women in labor.  Three saints, and three angels that watch over travelers, and the list keeps going.  I asked a catholic once why they had so many saints and angels, and why they didn't just pray to God, and their answer was that God was too busy to be bothered with the likes of a lowly human, so they pray to his friends and relatives to get them to ask him for those favors instead.  it seemed to me a little bit like when the Greeks would pray to Athena for wisdom (by the way the patron saint of learning is St Ambrose), or when they would invoke the name of Hermes to speed their travel as we would one of the many saints that dominate that particular area of life.  There are literally hundreds of saints, in fact catholicexchange.com states there are between 810 to 921 saints that are officially recognized and canonized by the church.  that is a lot of saints, and I think if we were looking at deified figures, this would put Christianity in the top of the list of largest pantheons.  God checker dot com is a database which holds all the pantheons, and the next in line from Christianity, which they recognize 577 saints with 164 alternatives, is the Greek pantheon with 371 gods and 283 alternatives, and this is not including the angels, or the devil.  (the devil being the redheaded stepchild of the Christian pantheon, much as Hades was the unwanted runt of Cronos' Greek litter.)