Which god/goddess to you follow worship?

[Pelta]

TeaDidikai

missmagpie

Hrm... Not believing in conscious Gods as such would make them rather hard to worship. Well, for me anyway. I believe in archetypal energy forms. I also believe in thought forms that have been given so much energy through belief from their followers that they are understood to be Gods and can wield quite a lot of power. Not quite the same thing though. When I used to work with deity I was a dedicant of Apollo. I have a pendent I wear in the shape of a sun with a beautiful piece of sunstone in the centre. Now I no longer believe in Apollo, but the pendent has taken on new meaning and is even more precious than it was before.

~hissssssss~ Pantheists...

xp Heh. Not anymore anyway. I was young and stupid. My beliefs have changed rather radically since then...  

[TeaDidikai]

missmagpie

TeaDidikai

missmagpie

Hrm... Not believing in conscious Gods as such would make them rather hard to worship. Well, for me anyway. I believe in archetypal energy forms. I also believe in thought forms that have been given so much energy through belief from their followers that they are understood to be Gods and can wield quite a lot of power. Not quite the same thing though. When I used to work with deity I was a dedicant of Apollo. I have a pendent I wear in the shape of a sun with a beautiful piece of sunstone in the centre. Now I no longer believe in Apollo, but the pendent has taken on new meaning and is even more precious than it was before.

~hissssssss~ Pantheists...

xp Heh. Not anymore anyway. I was young and stupid. My beliefs have changed rather radically since then...

Pst... Maggie, Pantheists don't believe in conscious gods.  

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[Crysiana]

Belatedly, I honor the Norse gods but Loki in particular. I'm still looking for a local group I can belong to and interact with on a regular basis; there don't seem to be many people in my area.  

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TeaDidikai

~grumbles~ "I was young and stupid" when worshiping Apollo? ~Poke~ Might want to rethink that.

Ok... maybe I wasn't young and stupid. I didn't quite work with him the way a Hellenic Reconstructionalist would, though. I didn't research the right ways to honor him, nor do I speak Greek (though I've done a bit of Latin in the past). But yeah... I had a rather close relationship with him for quite a while. Still do, but I tend to look more beyond the God, if you know what I mean.  

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missmagpie

TeaDidikai

~grumbles~ "I was young and stupid" when worshiping Apollo? ~Poke~ Might want to rethink that.

Ok... maybe I wasn't young and stupid. I didn't quite work with him the way a Hellenic Reconstructionalist would, though. I didn't research the right ways to honor him, nor do I speak Greek (though I've done a bit of Latin in the past). But yeah... I had a rather close relationship with him for quite a while. Still do, but I tend to look more beyond the God, if you know what I mean.

Fair enough. And I do know what you mean. And it makes me twitch. I'll edit in the link why.

Done and done.  

[maenad nuri]

missmagpie

TeaDidikai

~grumbles~ "I was young and stupid" when worshiping Apollo? ~Poke~ Might want to rethink that.

Ok... maybe I wasn't young and stupid. I didn't quite work with him the way a Hellenic Reconstructionalist would, though. I didn't research the right ways to honor him, nor do I speak Greek (though I've done a bit of Latin in the past). But yeah... I had a rather close relationship with him for quite a while. Still do, but I tend to look more beyond the God, if you know what I mean.

So what? You don't have to be a recon to worship a God. It's just some peoples preferred methodology.

Do the research (theoi is down, otherwise I'd give you that great link) and you would have been fine. We aren't ancient Greeks, don't expect to be one.  

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TeaDidikai

Fair enough. And I do know what you mean. And it makes me twitch. I'll edit in the link why.

Ah. I think I see what you mean. But I do not see the Gods as 'masks' or 'facets' of the ultimate divine. That view seems somewhat disrespectful to me, and doesn't really make much sense. I see them as individual forms in their own right. I don't believe in a conscious god but I believe in a source of some sort. I really liked this quote:

TeaDidikai

By way of an analogy, let's talk water. I can go to the kitchen and fill a coffee mug, a shotglass, and a saucepan with water from the tap. The mug, the shotglass, and the saucepan aren't the same object, or even the same type of object, and they're filled with separate bodies of water, but the water in each comes from the same tap, or if you prefer, the same source. When I'm done, I can pour all three down the drain, and they'll mingle; eventually, the water will find its way back to the treatment plant and back out someone else's tap. One source, many forms.

That's pretty much what I believe, but I don't worship the individual God/Thought forms. I don't worship anything, but I believe in that source. That's what I meant when I said I saw beyond Apollo.  

[TeaDidikai]

Nuri brings up a good point.

As for the nature of "water/divine/universe" well, I can be a little... um, persnickety?

Tired of having people jack my gods and say that the names and personalities of those I work with mean nothing in the grander scheme of things.

Nothing personal.  

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TeaDidikai

Nuri brings up a good point.

As for the nature of "water/divine/universe" well, I can be a little... um, persnickety?

Tired of having people jack my gods and say that the names and personalities of those I work with mean nothing in the grander scheme of things.

Nothing personal.

Nah, it's perfectly sensible. I'm sure I'd be rather ticked off if people kept doing that to my most sacred things. So we can agree to have different beliefs. And I'm not saying your gods don't mean anything in the greater scheme of things. I don't know them personally and couldn't possibly make such an assertion.  

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missmagpie

Nah, it's perfectly sensible. I'm sure I'd be rather ticked off if people kept doing that to my most sacred things. So we can agree to have different beliefs. And I'm not saying your gods don't mean anything in the greater scheme of things. I don't know them personally and couldn't possibly make such an assertion.

That right there pretty much removes you from the annoying group. mrgreen  

[VwolfV]

I follow the Norse patheon with leanings towards Odin and Thor and.....
Well Hel, I love all of them!

smile  

[Orion-Blacknuckle]

I'm a fluffball that's still deciding, though I have some strong feelings towards the Norse Gods, primarily Skadi, and the Greek Pantheon.  

[Nashoba Kaga]

I worship differrent goddesses from different pantheons, but mostly mine are Lilith,Skadi,Hel,Sarasvati,Lakshmi,Hecate,and Kali.
I find myself praying to Hecate and Kali more frequently then the others.

My boyfriend is big on Norse(Asatru) and primarily Loki and Thor.

My Girlfriend is big on Egyptian and Norse, Freya and Nephthys.