Hi Arnie,
RE: your post "They can increase Devotion skills by "honoring", but you can't train a villager to do that; they have to initiate it themselves, and they will only do that if they already have some skill." ......
I had two villagers with an inherited amount of Devotion skill. I made them both Devotees, and they honor on their own, and for about the same amount of time -- however, while one's skill is increasing (now an Adept Devotee at the halfway mark), the other still is showing 'untrained'. Why is one villager improving and the other not? Hers hasn't changed in 6 hours (fast speed) and I've watched her go to the statue numerous times. Same with him. They both have been devotees for 2 game years. Neither have had Time Warp or Grant Youth used on them. Is this a bug?