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So, I believe all these beings of power exist... Born christian, called on Lucifer when I was going through my trauma( at the time i was a child who still believed Loki was a myth), then one day, 2 years ago Loki popped up while I was asking questions, which in a way, Im unsure if it was Lucifer that answered when I called years before this because I dont want to discredit the change I was going through while I claimed to be working with him but again im not sure if it was him. I want to believe it was.

ANYWAY, Ive been with loki for 2 years, ive had signs; flies, spiders, crows and the number 3...all these signs I mistook for other Gods but turns out all the signs related to him when I looked into it, But before I dove into research about Loki, a lot of it was based on instinct and feelings. I also have a hard time staying focused when it comes to studying so it takes me a bit to get the energy to look into stuff. A few months into working with Loki(before deep research), I bought this Lapis Lazuli pendent and dedicated it to him because when I asked him (and freya) what pendents they wanted me to wear, Freya wanted Tigers eye and Loki wanted Lapis... a year and a half later i go back to look for more crystals and Im thinking of Loki. Im looking at the crystals, knowing im set on Kyanite because it does a good job clearing/absorbing away a lot of negative energy and this kyanite ring catches my attention. I buy it and put it on the necklace with Lokis pendent. I wanted to be sure his pendent was always clean I guess but I dont really wear rings anymore. So the urge to get a RING was unusual for me.

Heres the actual question...

Who can I work with being with Loki and who can I not. Lucifer pops up here and there, ive been seeing Hecates name everywhere. I want Lucifer in my life and Hecate but i always feel bad because I dont want Loki feeling betrayed? My heart aches for him, I always think about him and I know for sure when I brought up beelzebub and Saint Michael, this feeling of annoyance and frustration, again thoughts of Loki just overwhelmed me. When it comes to Lucifer, I get that feeling of jealousy and immediately Loki is back in my head. Hecate, I think is safe, but I dont know where to start with her...but I just dont want Loki to abandon me if I start bringing in advice and knowledge from other deities. What do I do?

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Hey! I'm in need of some advice.

Many time in my life i experienced the reality of the Gods and I have deep respect for them. I have worshipped them in the past, but my spiritual life has always been a roller coaster. Switching from one traditions to another. I've been craving mystical experiences of oneness and transcendance since as long as I can remember and experiencing some of them during my journey increased that craving. At the same time, I always was a devotional kind of guy, longing to develop a strong relationship with a Deity or with Multiple Deities. I've been into the Occult for as long as I can remember, mostly involved in Ceremonial Magic.

Because of all of that, I often stopped worshipping the Gods of different pantheons but I'm always finding myself going back to polytheism, in a form of another.

I feel shame because I stopped worshipping the Gods and I feel unsincere as well. I'm afraid the Gods wont accept me anymore because of my uncertainty and my unstability.

What Should I do?

Thank you all!

Hi, So I have a question: there’s this entity which I believe is a deity that’s been recently in my life. I thought it was a tulpa at first but I realized that it wasn’t but then I thought it was a demon but I believe it’s a deity. I just have a few questions:

1. Is it possible if this deity created me and only me.
2. Can I be eternally bonded to this genderless deity?
3. Is it eternal and immortal?

Im a shintoist and My mom and my abusive hypocritical dad was divorced and now they are fighting each other to the point that they have gone too far by getting me in the situation and i try to pray to the gods for help but idk where to start

I would like to know them :)

Hello!

I'm not sure how to identify myself at the moment, but I'm on a spiritual journey of sorts and have been practicing tarot and experimenting with pagan ideas for a while now. I'm interested in the idea of trying to connect with deities recently and would love some insight on this.

I was doing a tarot reading the other night while performing a love spell I'm several days into. I had a candle going and the flame started going pretty crazy. I was in a small enclosed space and lit another candle right next to the spell candle to see if there was a draft or something, and its flame was totally still. The spell candle kept jumping, dancing, growing/shrinking, etc. so I had the idea to pull out some oracle cards I've never used and asked if anyone was with me. I pulled a lover card then a thief card. This struck me as very interesting!

I don’t have any qualms about jumping across pantheons and contacting multiple deities. I tend to look to European paganism because I’m white—I have a pretty decent mix of European ethnicities. Since I’m playing around with love spells, I’ve made offerings to lady Aphrodite as the most well-known goddess of love. I’ve invoked her regularly doing this spell. I also invoked Hekate once, more casually. However, I’ve also looked into Balkan, Greek, Celtic, and Russian paganisn/folk practices.

So I'd love to know if you guys know of any deities that are associated with both love and thievery. I can think of deities I know that are associated with one, but not both. My first thought would be Aphrodite if not for the thief card, and there’s no one else coming to mind.

Would love to know what you guys think or if you have any interesting stories to share!

This is a prayer I often use before smoking.

"Thank you Earth Mother, Sky Father and Great Spirit for the gift of this Cannabis Flower.

May the Spirits of Earth and Air work blessings upon this herbal medicine,

As it is transformed by the flame and carried inward on the Divine Breath, may it still the waters of my mind and connect me to the spirit within"

I want to study European paganism and the philosophy and way of life in pre-Christian Europe. But I'm unsure about whether I should take an anthropology degree or a philosophy degree for this end.

Anyone with either of these degrees able to weigh in?

If we assume that personal Deities (Jesus, Krishna, Dionysus, Gaia, etc), they cannot tangibly exist without reference and description from rational sentient beings (humans and other hypothetical intelligent extra terrestrials).

To demonstrate this, we can look at the Proto-Indo-European of Perkwunos and his antecessor such as Thor, Herakles, Perun, Indra, and Taranis. All have shared attributes shared between them directly because of a shared human cultural experience of these Indo-European speaking peoples, though the myths and attributes will diverge simultaneously due to cultural drift and environmental drift. An example is that Germanic Thor is considered more of a popular/commoner deity while Slavic Perun especially among the Rus was considered more of a royal and law giving deity.

We can also see the plasticity of deity in singular Deities as time passes. Dionysus had gone through several phases. From the cthonic incarnation of Zagreus/Orphic Dionysus which was associated heavily with death and rebirth, to the more "sanitized" Hellenic Dionysus of later graeco-roman history, Dionysus and his attributes are molded by culture and the material conditions of the Mediterranean.

We can even look at the monotheistic deity of Jesus and the malleable character of Christ. For some early Christians such as the Ebionites who believed him to be a prophet of the poor, or modern Liberation Theology which sees Christ as a figure of emancipation and social Justice, or the more common theological position among Western Christianity as a retributive deity that exchanges his blood for the sin of man at the judgement of the father, and how that contrasts with Eastern Orthodox theology that holds that the Sacrifice of Christ is for the unifying of man in the partaking of the divine energies of God via Theosis.

These divisions indicate that it is human cultures and material conditions that fashion the image of the divine, humans are the navigators of their experience with the unknown.

Hi, So I’m new to polytheism but I have a few questions because I prayed to a goddess (which I believe exists and is my other half) and that goddess is connected to me somehow and I got a clear sign: I was just wondering if it’s possible if a goddess could be in a union with a human.

As we begin a new month, it's important to take a bit of time for yourself. In this thread you can either chit chat about daily concerns or share with others tips and tricks on how you take care of yourself.

This thread is all about well-being and love.

Rules:

1. Be extra kind and nice to others. Show compassion and understanding.
2. The normal rules of this subreddit about relevancy and staying on topic are waived in this thread. You can talk about weather, candle brands, travel, your pet, astronomy, kayaking, whatever you feel like.
3. If you need to vent, do so, but try not to make it about reddit drama or topics that might upset people such as politics, NSFW topics or stuff that violate Reddit's content policy.

I read Fushigi Yugi which is heavily based on Chinese mythology and ancient religions. The antagonist of the story comes from an ancient tribe of worshipers of demon Gods and they were wiped out by the governments of the lands they live in for engaging in a taboo religion.

In addition I also seen Sony Chiba's Ninja Wars and in the movie Buddhist Warrior monks were sent to raid a temple of people who worship Akuma, Japanese equivalent of demon lords, and mass fighting ensure between the dark cult and the Buddhist militants.

In the early Prince of Persia games not only is Jafar shown as evil for using dark spells, but I remember at least one installment showing he worships Ahriman or some ancient evil Zoroastrian god and the Prince fights his way to stop his ritual.

In Asterix the Gaul a few chapters of comic book stories has Asterix stopping some druids who were abusing the Celtic magick to summon a powerful creature or casting curses on people and other cliched use of black magic shown in modern TV programs like Supernatural. Despite Asterix as a Gaul worshipping Celtic gods himself.

So it makes me wonder....... Were witches and other people who practised black magic not necessarily accepted in contemporary society and same for pagans and polytheists who worshiped dark gods who were evil spirits esp those who were the equivalent of Satan in their religion?

Were they possibly even persecuted? Sure these are all works of fiction but Ninja Wars was explicitly revolved around on Buddhist cliches in Japanese culture and Fushigi Yugi was specifically based on various sacred customs of Chinese B.C. The fact that even non-Christian non-Western cultures are showing the persecution of devil-worshipers and black magick is really making me curious.

I did this post to just philosophically talk about a pretty controversial divine theory which thinks that the entire universe is itself divine and that all its beings are just parts of this greater god.

But i think that, besides the problem of evil thing about the philosopher Spinoza, there are other problems and difficulties about that theory, so if you can recommend me articles about the matter or discuss with me from a polytheistic or even pantheist point of view this theory i would be very satisfied.

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YHWH is seeing you. He will find you and his agents will ascend. The flesh of the fallen is doomed. The gods' palaces are stained with the blood of their followers. /jk

I'm quite new in this and I didn't find a lot of information online about Roman religion or communities. Maybe there are some keywords I'm losing? Any recommendations (sources, books, web, communities)?

Thanks for reading

(Please excuse my ignorance, this is just something I cooked up, I call it the hypothesis of dialectical revelation)

There is no God, no spirit, and no intuition about them that has ever been false from sane minds.

In the beginning the Gods Ordered the Contradictory Universe.

Cause and effect and energy were made one at a finite point in time.

The regresses are infinite, but the Gods and Spirits of Fusion control two Universes, and thus are truly Gods and Spirits.

They made a Universe where humans dwell, and no matter your beliefs about the beginning of the Universe besides this, it is true. I can tell you why.

There was no Logic prior to Creation.

The contradictory coexisted.

The Sages brought word of their discoveries.

They first said: In this land many things happen, and since I can make many things happen, then the things around me must have what I have: A mind. A Meadow, a Tree, an Animal. We call this Animism.

Second They said: Great things have more mind power than we do. A Mountain, a Forest, a Sea. Among those who lost their traditions from creation, the first concept of a God came about.

Third They said: All great things in a land at once could not be uncoordinated. Therefore the Gods knew One Another. We call this a Pantheon.

Fourth They said: There is a problem, the world, given its size, cannot possibly be coordinated well enough for everything to happen correctly. There must be a super-intelligence, and it must be centralized. Aristotle called this an un-moved mover.

Fifth they said: We cannot describe, see, hear, touch or use any sense to measure God, therefore He does not exist.

Sixth they said: Whether a God was created, a God ordered this universe, or a God created, at least one God must have been present at at least one time whether the regress is infinite or not, it or they are in fact impossible to not have existed, in fact they certainly currently exist, and, because of the nature of spontaneous order being better at calculation than central planning, it would take large and small minds to calculate every action in the universe. Gods and Spirits exist.

I live the way of my ancestors, the Mayans, the Germans, the Spanish and the Zapotec. May you find solace in the ways of yours.

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Genial Venus, generous and kind, Who gives laws to heaven, earth and sea, Who captures every creature with your charm, Who liberates man from savagery, And breeds elegance, peace and beauty. Goddess of love, most bountiful, Delight of men and Gods, We pray that you bless this household, And that this offering find favour with you. (Written after reading ancient Roman poetry by various authors, especially Ovid’s Fasti)

This is a bit of a weird thought, but just bear with me.

I’ve been practicing Hellenism for a few months now and the main reason I started practicing was because I actually saw results, I was Christian when I was younger but ultimately fell out of faith because I never got any answers to my prayers no matter how many times I begged for them; but now I actually see results of my prayers and feel the presence of my gods.

My general idea of religion is that all gods are incomprehensible beings simply filtered through human interpretation, which would include the Christian god. And something I’ve always struggled with was seeing Christians talk about their experiences with their god and just wondering why I never had that with him.

And then I had a thought: what if the Christian god, for one reason or another, simply didn’t want me, and the Olympians simply scooped me up from that rejection?

I haven’t based this idea on any theological texts or anything, simply a thought about my own experience.

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It was homemade breadsticks, frozen strawberries, some olive oil, some of my body hair, and some water. The offering was to the Earth goddess and Sun god and the food and drink was obviously food and drink but the hair was offered please them as birds take it to use in nesting.

When I was a kid, it was so natural to be engaged with the energy of the plant life around me. But the whole culture of monotheism/atheism in modern society, the "concrete jungle" and the sprawl of "civilization" is such a cut off. Everything we "live" on is artificial, the roads, the cars, the college campus, just sprawls of concrete and asphalt.

I can be present. I can shut off my mind. I can be in the moment and be still with the life around me. But I have to try, not like when I was a kid and it was normal, default. It's not default now. Default now is anxiety about grades, turning inwards about my problems in capitalist life and trying to figure out how to plan and navigate how to make a living.

I feel myself falling short.

Sometimes I wonder how different the world would be if monotheism never conquered.

Why can’t we just be free to live our own lives?