Do you think its possible for an entity (say Venus) to be incarnated?

Question

Or any other entity of the past. Throughout civilization humanity has held so many different beliefs in a number of different gods and goddesses. From all the people believing in one goddess or god, do you think it is possible for all that energy of belief to soon be personified as a human form and go through the process of reincarnation.

This is just a thought that has stumped me for some time now

Answer 1

A buddhist belief is that all sentient beings (beings that have a mind and think- E.g. humans, animals, deities, gods, demons, etc), are reborn an infinite number of times in numerous realms (be it planets, heavens or hells etc).

Each life and time in each realm is inperminant, so even if you are good enough to be reborn in heaven it's a matter of time before your good merit runs out and you are reborn somewhere else (I.e. Earth). It would depend on how much merit you earnt through good actions now before going to heaven (as you enjoy so much that you have no time for virtuous actions when there).

These timescales are immense for Gods and deities, often many aeons or kalpas (an aeon a huge scale, around a billion years- a kalpa is another, this is the length of time from a universes 'birth' to it's 'death', almost an unimaginable amount of time). It is said that the bottom level of hell cannot be escaped until the end of a kalpa. And a great top God lives for an entire kalpa too.

Only few people ever have been able to see into another realm/plane of existance so we here cannot tell what's happening in heaven or hell now, we cannot tell when someone from those realms is born here. But we can assume that because we have been reborn an infinite number of times that we and all beings have been to heaven and hell as numerous different beings before. (We see that all beings have at one point been our mothers so we try our best to be nice and patient and pleasent to everybody).

But it is more than possible that we and many people we know have been gods or deities in our past lives due to great amounts of karma and positive action. The gods that are prayed to today are most likely still alive and there right now. Others may have ceased to be and have been reborn here. The same is most likely true with spirits and angels too. Gods departed from thousands of years ago may be personified here now though.

Karma affects things too, so if millions of people pray for a certain deity to be reborn here it may well happen if the people deserve it.

Answer 2

Well, I believe that reincarnation is a process of refinement...of learning...of acheiving. A deity in any form would not require that process. Could the Goddess take a physical form and be among us...sure, but as a part of the All (the source of all that is) she would not be mortal, nor contained by the flesh, therefore the reincarnation process would be void. I do believe that we are all pieces of the All (God and Goddess), experiencing mortality and all it's gifts. We are most alive just before death and the thought of imminent death should cause in us a desire to live life to it's fullest measure. The deities are exempt from this and yet experience it through us. Life and death are precious.

Answer 3

You are quite correct, but not in the childish science fiction ways that the medias keep on feeding us with: What you are describing is essentially the Sacramental dimension of the liturgical cycle ; traditional Christians live through a never-ending liturgical cycle that keeps on commemorating the same historical events of the Gospel ; for the untrained eye it seems like tedious boring repetition thats keeps on looping every four years ; but to those who have a deeper understanding of the Liturgy, there is a connection to the events that are celebrated that transcends time ; this is why although Holy Mass or Divine Liturgy is celebrated all over the world at every seconds of the day, it is in fact the same unique Sacrifice of the Mass that is actualized through the trans-dimensional ripples of the Sacraments. When God became flesh, something theoretically impossible happened: the Infinite God Who by definition transcends the space, time and creation He, Himself, has created, that uncontainable God, emptied Himself of His Glory to contain Himself in a human body ; that act called Incarnation, was an invasion of Infinity into our space/time limited reality ; it can be compared as the effect of a stone being thrown into a pond, sending ripples throughout all time and space of human history. Want to find God?... Go attend Mass.

Answer 4

it is taught that reincarnation is a corruption of the true teaching of the ressurection.
and it is Blatantly Promised that ALL people that have ever lived in this world since Adam will be resurrected. both good and evil.
Now the question is was Venus a real person?
if so then Yes she would be resurrected.
However if reincarnation is true! under the assumption that anyone could choose to do mortality again and again with gods' blessing, once a spirit being chooses to reincarnate that spirit ceases to be the ONE they were before. That memory Wipe thing in entering a mortal body works every time.

Answer 5

Yes, If you like the band eVANEScense then you will like Venus' singing, Amy Lee is Venus incarnated, she is my cousin and i dont give a damn if i make the other Gods mad because im not supposed to talk about such things! Venus was hurt in a battle and they put her in a human body because others might come looking for her.

To Journey: a God or Goddess up to level five (Gods and Goddesses go from levels one to ten) can be contained in a human body, after that the power level would kick them out of the body.

Answer 6

For a mythological character to be incarnated because people believe in it ? No.
For the Creator God of the universe to choose to express Himself in a human body? Yes. Because He actually exists, and actually has the power to do this.
The mythological character cannot be manifested by belief, no matter how strong.

Answer 7

well personally (and it is also a well known theory) i do beleive in reincarnation... after all where does that energy go ( everyone heard about the fact that we can neither create or destroy energy, right) but in case of an entity, then i don't know...

Answer 8

Ya zeus did it all the time but in the forms of animals like a white bull a swan and so forth.

Answer 9

entity not like human being can't be reincarnated

Answer 10

I agree with Wayne T's reply.