Your Gods

[Rainbow Mage]

Tell me about the gods you venerate. Do you venerate gods outside your religion? Do you have a primary or patron deity you worship above all others?

I'm curious

 

[Rainbow Mage]

I put the Egyptian pantheon first of course, most especially Sekhmet and Horus, but I have respect for others.

Ganesh for example has been in my life since I was 14 before even the Egyptian gods were. Shiva also has been around more recently.

I've also venerated Poseidon and other Olympians, but mostly him.

 

[Quintessence]

I'm pretty much your stereotypical tree-hugging dirt worshipper. I work with aspects of nature and the universe directly and in a way that is tailored to my local area. The only local "pantheons" here are Native American, and for various reasons, I choose not to draw from that wellspring. Consequently I don't work with deities that have formal names in older Pagan traditions, and most of the otherworldly denizens I work with are not recognized in Pagan traditions either (with one notable exception).

Because of that notable exception, I've been working/learning more with the Greek pantheon over the past year, but the core of my path is fundamentally unchanged. And I wouldn't say my odd patron is the sort of guy I would worship above all other gods. No way. He's kind of an arsehole. *laughs*

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I put the Egyptian pantheon first of course, ...

Of course, but

Which ones? Which period? Based on what scholarship?​

I do not quite understand why some feel so clever embracing and promoting the obscure and idiosyncratic.[/indent]

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I'd say the closest I can get to the gods (Paganish ones specifically) is taking them symbolically. So I draw from all forms of Paganism, but really I don't think they were meant to be taken symbolically, it just works if they are.

 

[Levite]

עברי אנכי ואת ה' אלהי השמים אני ירא אשר עשה את הים ואת היבשה׃
"I am an 'Ivri, and I worship YHVH, the God of Heaven, who made the sea and the land." (Jonah 1:9)

Too good an opportunity to resist.

Yeah, seriously though, just Him. The One. No others.

 

[Vinayaka]

Siva, Ganesha, and Murugan. I kind of go in cycles. I don't go outside those three, but will enter a Hindu temple of a different sect, and see whomever is enshrined there as Siva.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Depends on my mood. Sometimes Aesir, sometimes Outer Gods, sometimes personal creations, sometimes Hellenic, rarely Abrahamic.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

עברי אנכי ואת ה' אלהי השמים אני ירא אשר עשה את הים ואת היבשה׃
"I am an 'Ivri, and I worship YHVH, the God of Heaven, who made the sea and the land." (Jonah 1:9)

(Out of curiosity: why 'worship' rather than 'fear'?)

 

[Levite]

(Out of curiosity: why 'worship' rather than 'fear'?)

In the context of the question being asked in the text, it seems clear that what is being asked is which god Jonah worships; so it would appear that the word yira is being used idiomatically; and so I have translated it.

I am also of the opinion that yira, when used in the context of discussing God, never means "fear," but always something akin to "hold in awe."

 

[Gaura Priya]

I believe that Jehovah God (and secretly, Lord Vishnu) is One God, and that He is the same God in all religions and yet indescribable. He is immanent, transcendent, and transpersonal.

 

[Riverwolf]

I'm a polytheist who basically "believes" in all Gods, some as cross-religion/mythology, but my primary ones are Ganesha, Siva, and Kali.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

I like Kali because she and Sekhmet are similar.

 

[Jainarayan]

Tell me about the gods you venerate.

Vishnu and His incarnations and regional representations; Shiva; Devi (Divine Mother); Ganesha; Saraswati; Hanuman. They are the primary Hindu deities I worship/venerate, but I also venerate other Hindu deities, and would go to a temple of any other god or goddess.

Do you venerate gods outside your religion?

No, with the possible exception of Guanyin as another form of the Divine and Compassionate Mother.

Do you have a primary or patron deity you worship above all others?

Sri Krishna.

 

[Shuddhasattva]

I'm a polytheist who basically "believes" in all Gods, some as cross-religion/mythology, but my primary ones are Ganesha, Siva, and Kali.

I'm with Riverwolf on this one; I believe that the gods are representative of cosmic/natural forces and elements of the psyche. The seers of many cultures clothe divinity in culturally appropriate dressings for a particular time, place and condition.

Insofar as the living lineages pass the transmission of these deity-experiences down, the practices related them are valid, in my opinion. So, I practice Hinduism because I view most of the other Pagan religions as overly reconstructionist having lost essential information, but nonetheless their gods parallel these same cosmic concepts. Shamanism interests me greatly but it is rather inaccessible at present, to most anyway.

As a supreme deity... the One Without a Second by any other name, for me I view Shiva & Shakti most commonly as That, but will acknowledge many others to be different names and forms for the same.

I draw the line at Abrahamism though.

 

[Me Myself]

I venerate Jesus (both the carpenter from 2000 years ago and a friend of mine by that name that venerates me in return ), Shiva, Krishna and Ganesh.

I´ve venerated Durga, Giriga and Lakshmi , but is not frecuent. It´s just something I´ve done. An probably will do again.

I have also developed this habit of mentaly "namaste :namaste " people when I meet them. Specially if strangers or service people. It reminds me God comes in every form.

And well, by revering God in all this forms, I do also consider it being me revering myself

 

[Riverwolf]

I have also developed this habit of mentaly "namaste :namaste " people when I meet them. Specially if strangers or service people. It reminds me God comes in every form.

Someday I'll learn how to do that.

 

[Me Myself]

It´s a habit. I havent acomplished moksha yet nor everything similar

If I do that is because it is a internal exercise to facilitate a comprehension.

Just imagine yourself doing that when you see anyone .

Sometimes I especially remember it when I am angry at someone or simply don´t understand him/her. That´s also very good.

 

[Me Myself]

Actually... now that I remember, I think I got the idea from your sig

"Shiva, what will you teach me in this form?" That´s why I usualy mentaly say "Om Namaha Shivaya" instead of "namaste"

You inspired me the idea River :namaste

 

[Riverwolf]

Actually... now that I remember, I think I got the idea from your sig

"Shiva, what will you teach me in this form?" That´s why I usualy mentaly say "Om Namaha Shivaya" instead of "namaste"

You inspired me the idea River :namaste

Oh. Uh... you're welcome.