Saturday, July 01, 2006

Deity

The author of Wicca for the Rest of Us stated, (copy/paste of some highlights I want to ponder further)

"Wicca does not have a set pantheon.

Some Wiccans simply call their deities God and Goddess. Others invoke specific aspects from mythology. Some honor pantheons while others dedicate themselves to only a few. This is because the Divine can take upon itself infinite aspects and faces.

Following a god of a particular pantheon does NOT mean you are following their religion.

Know your gods, both in meditation and in study. Do not just go off books that list hundreds of deities with a couple sentences of explanation. This is an important reason for keeping to a limited number of deities - it allows a reasonable scope for study.

How you "see" your deities may or may not be how they actually exist. For example, I envision my god and goddess in distinctly human forms, and I see no problem with that. I simply believe that is not their true existence. It's very hard for most humans to form a relationship with something they think of as a big blob of divinity. But I, personally, really can't believe that the gods are actually confined to "bodies" that have two arms, two legs, and a head. Especially since they don't actually even have physical bodies. But we do tend to relate to them through such imagery."

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