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Post by lorna on Oct 21, 2017 10:32:37 GMT -1
'Deep Polytheism: On the Agency and Sovereignty of the Gods' by Morpheus Ravenna is an excellent essay on building relationships with the gods as individuals with their own agency and personalities instead of as archetypes. I particularly liked what she has to say about religion done right feeling like a bottomless well and her suggestion that when we touch those depths we become part of the stories of our deities creating a shared story and future. polytheist.com/featured-voices/2015/08/06/deep-polytheism-on-the-agency-and-sovereignty-of-the-gods/
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Post by Heron on Oct 22, 2017 12:41:18 GMT -1
'Deep Polytheism: On the Agency and Sovereignty of the Gods' by Morpheus Ravenna is an excellent essay on building relationships with the gods as individuals with their own agency and personalities instead of as archetypes. I particularly liked what she has to say about religion done right feeling like a bottomless well and her suggestion that when we touch those depths we become part of the stories of our deities creating a shared story and future. polytheist.com/featured-voices/2015/08/06/deep-polytheism-on-the-agency-and-sovereignty-of-the-gods/Yes I agree. This essay has some important things to say about the nature of polytheism and the nature of the gods. The suggestion that archetypes are expressions of aspects of characteristics of the gods (rather than the god being an expression of the archetype as the usual analysis has it) puts the psychological approach in its right place as explaining how aspects of the gods might be perceived rather than 'explaining' the gods themselves. You can't have a devotional relationship with an archetype and to share a life with them they have to be known as more than just the essences manifested as archetypes. Her presentation of these and other matters is subtle and convincing.
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