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MidnightLetter Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:07 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:44 am
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I tend not to think of creation myths as particularly literal wink so I don't feel as though they're all competing for credit for making the world.
I think they do know the others exist. After all, you have all these people calling them into the same rituals. You'd imagine that they'd know the other existed, even if they're just looking across the circle and thinking "who the hell is that?".
I don't know whether they have some sort of other-worldly meeting place where they go to catch up over a coffee or an ale or something. I imagine there would be some severe cultural problems, depending on pantheon. If they do interact, there are probably some unspoken rules if not established laws.
I reckon only a few of them would make many journeys to interact. It would be kinda neat if all the sort of "top gods" had diplomatic conversations. I can see Odin and Zeus having a sit-down over some wine and talking about Serious Matters for a while and complaining about others in their pantheon, before chatting about how many human girls they'd knocked up in the century since they last spoke, or something wink
I think they'd have some sort of diplomacy going on. I don't think, for e.g., Thor and Zeus would get in some sort of tiff simply because they both happened to have an penchant for lightning and thunder. People can like the same sorts of things. But, I do think there would be situations where the need for diplomacy of some description would arise, and issues where things would need to be talked out. Whether they'd fight I don't know, but better fighting than an all-out war. And would a significant Diplomatic Incident cause enough of a cultural misunderstanding that war would result?
Fun to muse over, certainly.
EDIT: Ha, Sweet, I remember you talking about your son writing a myth wherein Loki stole something from Poseidon, and how I thought it would cause some sort of major diplomatic incident. Now I wonder whether Odinn wouldn't just hand Loki over for a beating... although... overall it might end up at war or worse anyway, by the time it was done. xd
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Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:34 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 4:39 pm
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Violet Song jat Shariff Crew
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:36 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:42 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:04 pm
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Aryain Flames An intruiging question, indeed, one that I'd never really considered. I guess I always believed that all versions of the God and Goddess are just different faces of the 2 true divine beings. Like, for example, if you were to call Aphrodite into your circle you would be calling in the Goddess, and in saying "Aphrodite", she knows that you need her to focus her energies on love. I'm not sure I really explained that very well, but there you are. Feel free to comment.
That's soft polytheism - the belief that the individual deities are just aspects, facets, or archetypes, and are all a part of one respective God and Goddess. Hard polytheism is the belief that all Gods are distinct, separate individuals.
I'm a hard polytheist. It's never made any sense to me to assume otherwise, no matter how I tried. Luckily for me Wicca is very much a hard polytheistic religion.
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:31 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:24 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:22 am
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