I need a place to lay out and possibly organize my thoughts. I’ve found I do better lecturing to an audience then sitting in front of a microphone, so I thought maybe the same will hold with my writing.
To start with, let me layout the basis for the thoughts, theories and practices I will be going on about.
I am a polytheistic Pagan. More specifically I am a modern Pagan who is a literal polytheist. This means that when I say there are many gods, I mean just that. There are many individual, discrete deific persons who engage in various ways and to various levels with human persons.
They are not facets of one thing. They are not manifestations of some vast force, whether that force be seen as one thing, 2 things (masculine and feminine, light and dark, peanut butter and jelly) nor any other cont that denies the individual reality of the gods.
Just as you and I are separate people, alike in humanity and interesting in our diversity, so too are the gods and the spirits.
Being a polytheist, I recognize diverse and multiple forms not just in deity, but in all things. This is incumbent on any one who has experienced even a fragment of the vast and changing reality of our universe.
So that is, at heart, what I will be talking about here. I think that the nature of polytheism needs to be explored and discussed. Just as importantly, the implications of polytheism need to explicated and explored. Being a polytheist isn’t something that stops as seeing the deities as multiple and individual. It has to expand into all levels of a persons life, touching everything we do. Because polytheism is a way of understanding the universe, not just a position to be held in debates on deity.
So that is where I begin. From here i will post notes from talks I give, musings on the nature of polytheism and the universe, my thoughts on how other Pagans view and interact with deity, and a whole host of other areas that come to my attention as I ponder deity, reality, duty, honor, nature and all that other stuff that makes us human and alive.
Tags: basics, beginning, polytheism