I am open to this as a distinct possibility. Ultimately, whether they are real literal beings or just real parts of my (or the collective human) psyche is irrelevant to me in practical terms. I lean one way or the other on the question at different times, and don't necessarily feel the need to...
I'm one. I mean, I don't like to label myself so narrowly, but in practice I only worship the Greek Gods, and I do so in a semi-reconstructionist fashion.
I'm monist in that I think all of the gods are ultimately a part of one divine unity, but I'm fully monist in that I think you, me, and my kitchen table are also parts of the same divine unity. But that's just my philosophical outlook.
Practically, I treat the gods and goddesses like they are...
I feel a much closer connection to the divine feminine than I ever did to the divine masculine, my patriarchal Mormon upbringing notwithstanding. I guess either it just didnt take, or it just wasnt true. Or both, probably. I feel an intimacy and closeness with the overwhelmingly feminine...
It's not either/or; the comparison is not apt at all. All religions have mythologies attached to them, even if they don't have stories of gods, prophets, and heroes, they still have some kind of mythic narrative.
Religion is belief and practice, mythology is narrative. Religion informs...
(this is also a double-post from my blog)
I had a dream a couple of nights ago, a complicated, long dream that was very dependent on this series of adjacent locations in the dream-landscape. Among these locations was a set of purple and lavender office buildings, the nondescript two story...
The following is a cross-post from my own blog and a couple of other places:
So the following experience seems entirely appropriate given that the moon is basically full right now. Also it just occurred to me that the last time I went on a kind of pilgrimage to the wilderness, I kept...
For Lovemaking:
Aphrodite, goddess of love, queen of passion and the night who rose from the union of Uranus and the sea, be among us and dwell and dance within us as we make love in your name. Grant us passion and ecstasy, make our bonds strong and powerful, and let us drink deeply from the cup...