5 faces of the God and 5 faces of the Goddess

[wyndy_wytch]

This is something I wrote almost 2 years ago. So it comes from my BOS. I was wondering what your thoughts on the matter are

Comments

[tclefey]

It struck me as Wiccan too, but that's mainly because I associate veneration of "one" God and "one" Goddess as Wiccan (essentially, all the hats you give them makes me assume you believe all gods are one god and all goddesses one goddess). I personally don't jive with that. Not to say that individual gods and goddesses don't have more than one role (Odin is both warrior and seeker of wisdom), but I can't name a god outside Wicca that is both Lord of the sun (Helios, Apollo, Ra), and Lord of Death (Hades, Osiris), unless you count Yahweh/Allah, and even his associations with the somewhat shaky now.

I'm a hard polytheist, so all the goddess names you probably associate as aspects of your Goddess, I believe to be individual goddesses with their own consciousness and motivations.

[tclefey]

"unless you count Yahweh/Allah, and even his associations with the somewhat shaky now." Is supposed to say "unless you count Yahweh/Allah, and even his associations with the sun are somewhat shaky now."

[wyndy_wytch]

I am also a Hard Polytheist. The God and Goddess i worship as part of my religion and craft are not the Wiccan God and Goddess. I mean to know the Wiccan Gods I would need to have been initiated into Wicca which I haven't been.

[ianphanes]

While this is in response to a sentence by wyndy_wytch, it is not about wyndy_wytch, since I've never met her. It's about a position that I disagree with

[tclefey]

I agree, I was a solitary Wiccan before I realized I didn't jive with divine dissociative identity disorder (among other things). And I was never initiated into any Wiccan coven/tradition. Most coven-initiates would have probably called me "neo-Wiccan" but I'd never heard the term and so called myself a solitary Wiccan. If the Wiccan god/dess do exist, then they would call to people before they would seek out a coven, if they did not, why would anyone seek to become Wiccan, other than for some semblance of power? Which, after learning Wiccan ethical laws governing magick, should weed those power-hungry out (should does not mean it always does).

[gemmagic]

"Divine dissociative identity disorder" - That has got to be one of the funniest things I have ever heard! Suddenly I am having mental pictures of Toni Collette in the United States of Tara turning different colours instead of turning into a trucker and a teenage rebel and stuff. Hilarious!

[tclefey]

Then which god/goddess do you worship? I would like to know which deities of the ancients encompassed all those aspects. Please provide their names and the culture from which they come.

[tclefey]

Also, just a note, if you want to come across as a hard polytheist, calling them "The" God and "The" Goddess will come across soft-poly. You might want to substitute "My" God and "My" Goddess or "My patron and matron deities".

[owl_clan]

Since when does "witchcraft" deal with "gods" and "goddesses"? I know some people who use the title Witch and who pray to "gods and goddesses", but historically, Witchcraft really has nothing to do with that.