What do you personally believe in:
Polytheism
Dualism
Henotheism (all gods are manifestations of one Supreme Being),
Polytheist, but you only commune with one god
Other (please ad details)
*AND*
What form of Paganism do you practice (e.g. Eclectic, Wicca, Druid etc.?
(Please don't answer this if you just want to demonise Paganism)
2006-09-09 04:10:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok, then i'm not alone. I was just interested in seeing what everyone's thoughts are.
2006-09-09 04:17:05 · update #1
Hi Paradox. Wow, somebody has been doing their homework! Good question. I am a polytheist who thinks henotheism is a mystery we just can not know yet. I am a priestess in the Temple of the Great Goddess, Athena. I serve Her, but am at peace with all other seekers. I have seen Athena physically at work in the world, healing and protecting people. I hope that She will bless you today for being so gracious to Her.
2006-09-09 04:17:04 · answer #1 · answered by Isis 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I practice Henotheism while granting the most reverence to The Morrigan and Loki (long story). My beliefs are a combination of my upbringing (Sicilian Pagan), and my husbands (Asatran), with some Celtic idealogy thrown as well. Technically the term would be Eclectic Pagan, but I have found most people use "Eclectic" as an excuse to take only the fun bits and leave the ones about responsibility and sacrifice (not animal, but of self) out of the equation. It makes for a sloppy practice.
2006-09-09 04:40:31 · answer #2 · answered by Sterling 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally I'm somewhere between Polytheist and Panentheist.
My particular form of Paganism (Gardnerian Wicca) honors two specific tribal deities without discounting the presence of others. At least, in our rites. In our personal (individual) practices - it is totally up to the individual. The focus of Wicca leans more toward orthopraxy than orthodoxy.
2006-09-09 10:00:30 · answer #3 · answered by Matt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had fallen removed from the Catholic Church at approximately 13, whilst i began asking skeptical questions, and have been given no actual looking solutions. i became into an agnostic for notably much ten years, and then began in seek of a few thing which made greater experience to me. My spouse had started interpreting approximately Pagan faiths greater often than no longer, and Wicca in specific, and that i became into purely marginally involved, yet i became into trekking in the extreme floor to the East human beings a splash, and that i sat down below a tree and watched the meadow and flow below me, and that i had a unexpected, and fairly deep, effectual journey. I observed how life became into divided between the genders, each complimenting the different, and each desiring the different, and unexpectedly lots of what my spouse were conversing approximately appeared to click into place for me. As I persevered to sit down down, surprised, I had some thing greater...own take place to me. i will purely liken it to a Christian's account of in my opinion connecting to God. It became into basically like that. The Lord and female have been there with me, by some skill, and that i ought to be certain that the creation reflects the writer, and that, as such, there became right into a God and a Goddess. After that, it basically had to do with a lot of study. i became right into a believer, and now i had to be attentive to greater. it is 18 years later now, and that i'm nevertheless studying.
2016-10-14 12:19:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I have grown I would say that now my belief would be Henotheism.
I was trained in Traditional Wicca. I now practice Traditional Witchcraft. I label myself as a Pagan and Witch. (Just for the record I had a few years of eclectic hodge podge that were rewarding)
This is a GREAT question!!!
Blessings )O(
2006-09-09 04:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Henotheism or Polytheism, I suppose. Not sure what the difference is. And I am Eclectic Wiccan I would say.
2006-09-09 07:16:59 · answer #6 · answered by trinitarianwiccan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that there is one God. But this one supreme being is so massive and whole, that mere humans cannot possibly comprehend it. So we only see ASPECTS of this being. Some people see Christ. Some see Allah. Some see Buddah, etc while some see nothing at all, which is okay.
I see other gods. Some are male and some are female and they all represent something from nature. All gods are one God. Blessed be.
2006-09-09 04:27:54 · answer #7 · answered by Maria Isabel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am eclectic wicca and don't believe in any of those things. I try to follow the path laid down by Thor. I know Thor isn't real, it's his attributes and judgement that I worship. My attitude towards the other Gods and Goddesses is the same. except, Dianism, which is just an feminist attempt to subjugate men. that's all it is.
2006-09-09 04:17:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I dont think everyone would be willing to answer out the whole thing, every pagan's beliefs are totally unique, so you'd have a better time asking individually.
2006-09-09 04:15:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't fit in anywhere! lol It would have to be something akin to henotheism. I don't "practice" any type of Pagan rituals. Modern Paganism is not what ancient people practiced. And I don't think I want to regress to being a savage in order to practice what we do know the ancient people did.
2006-09-09 04:14:31 · answer #10 · answered by Kithy 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋