What gods/goddesses are real?

Question

There are so many gods are they all real or are they all fake? Or are some of them real? If so which ones?

Answer 1

I am Wiccan, and I believe in the Goddess and God. To us Wiccans, our Goddess and God are very real, just like Christians and Muslims worship their only God, and Indu have thousands of Goddessess and Gods. To believers, their deity (or deities) are as real as the Earth itself.

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Answer 2

Some may have been based on actual people.
At the the basis of most myths there is usually an element of fact.
We humans still need to believe in something. We have not evolved that far.
We still need our myths whether modern, old or ancient.
But the believe of a God and Goddess, or Mother and Father figure, goes back a lot further than any of the mythology we know today.
Excavated images from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods (c.40,000 -7.000BC) show that there was a flourishing Goddess belief system then.
For example the famous "Venus of Willendorf",Austria.
Other female and phallic like figures,representing male "gods" from this era,have been found in central Europe.
Also on both sides of the Mediterranean basin.
As civilisation developed and belief systems turned into quite structured religions. So did the need for for Gods and Goddesses to become more identifiable entities.
The people could then more readily believe, by having an image or images as a central focus for their worship and beliefs.
All of the early forms of recognised religion had at one time, a God and a Goddess figure.
Some had many,but study usually finds that in most cases the primary Gods and Goddess have many aspects to them and so are worshipped by many names and forms.
This it particularly so with the Ancient Egyptian belief system.
Where Isis and Horus, the Mother and Son figures, have many aspects and names.
We find with many that the male Gods represented the Sun while the female the Moon.But one cannot usually exist with out the other.
This was to identify that we need male and female elements to create harmony, balance and life.
There are very few exceptions to this, and it flows over into Christianity. Were Mary the Mother is associated with the Moon.
While God is referred to as The Light or sun.
Early Semitic belief, which is the basis for Judaic/Christian belief included a Goddess.In the Bible she is referred to as "The Queen of Heaven ".
Letters and documents from the Israelite community in Elephantine,Egypt, also confirm this.
While her name is not in the Bible it is in these texts and appears as "Anat-Yahu", or consort of Yahweh.
Depictions and mention of her name exist from the late Bronze Age until 600BC.
Whether any of these Goddesses are able to be labelled real is not really important in the large picture.
For it remains that, what they represented and still represent to their followers, is the relevant thing.
Belief doesn't warrant proof or reality.
Can we believe all of the Bible?
It is what they represent that remains the important message.
When I feel the need I pray to Isis, Lady of 10.000 names.
It does not concern me that she may have only been an ancient Egyptian Queen.
One who was remembered through folklore,as a great wife,
mother,and a woman of infinite wisdom and learning.
But there is no hard proof of her ever actually existing.
That is irrelevant,I can still find my strength and hopefully an insight into myself though her.
By using her representation as a female ideal, as a channel for my prayer, to a higher power.

Answer 3

For a person who is of the Christian or similar faith, there is only One true God. For a Wiccan or Pagan, there is the God and Goddess(depicting obviously Male and Female). It all depends on what you as the inquirer deem as real, for reality is truly what one makes of it-what is real to you, may not be real to others, what you believe may or not be the same as what others believe.
Each culture from ancient Greece and Rome to the Celts, the Britons, each had their own pantheon of Gods and Goddesses, to explain that which they could not explain-with each having a source of power within the natural world-it truly is all what you make of it or in this case choose to believe.

Answer 4

The following is just my opinion and not intended to start a flame war...

Throughout history, the "Divine" has chosen to show itself to many different people in many different ways. The ancient Egyptians *needed* to see a pantheon of Gods that were a fusion of animal and humans in order to believe, so that is the way that the "Powers That Be" presented itself. The ancient Norse *needed* to see larger than life humans doing battle against Frost Giants in order to believe, so that's what they were shown.

They are all just many aspects of the same Divine. Just like the Christians need to see a Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in order to believe, some of us choose to also revere the Mother, Daughter, and Spirit of Earth, so that's what we are presented with.

They are all just as real as any other.

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Answer 5

Which ones are real depends on who you talk to. Ask a Christian and they will tell you that there is only one God and his son, Jesus; the Muslims will says that it is Allah, etc and so each religious belief is different.
There is no way to know for sure which ones exist, if any of them do. So which gods and/or goddesses are real? Well that depends on what you believe.

Answer 6

Well, that depends on who you ask. Some people think the Christian God is real, some don't. Some believe in a God and a Goddess. . .some even still worship Greek gods. In my opinion, there is a higher force acting, but It just goes by many different names.

Answer 7

well, i believe there is of course one true god, but i also believe there could be gods and goddesses of nature and the elements, all gods in all places were really silenced almost completely when christianity was being spread around the world. i believe in many things, including different elemental gods and goddesses.

Answer 8

There are absolutely no gods/goddesses in the sense that any religion portrays them; I could go further and extrapolate that there is no 'higher power' but it is technically impossible to prove that.

Targeting Christianity for the moment, since it is the one major world religion, and many of the proofs can be mildly modified to fit many other religions:
Proof 1- The Bible
If one asks a religious person who wrote the Bible, they will tell you that god wrote the bible indirectly through his close followers, therefore everything in the Bible should be 100% true. However, if one looks, one can find a great deal of contradictions in the Bible, many going against the supposed word of god himself; one of the more significant ones is the . It is entirely unreasonable for the dogma of a religion to contradict itself, so the religion must be untrue.

Proof 2-Sin
Sin is, supposedly, the things that the Christian god has mandated that humans should never do. This goes against all logical thought. If the Christian god is omnipotent, then it is highly foolish for him to enable us with the ability to sin. Should he find a performable action, which he made possible in his omnipotence no less, unacceptable than it is idiotic at best to allow humans the thought process to do it. I can't possibly think of an example of something humans can't even think about, for obvious reasons, but I can use an analogy with say, rabbits. Say there's a population of wild rabbits which has never seen a human or a human invention. Would any of these rabbits even be able to consider building a complex tank and eliminating their predators? I think not. Rabbits' brains just don't work that way.
Speaking of sins, let's talk about the one about false idols.

Proof 3-
If you were any omnipotent deity, which wanted total faith in yourself, would you allow the consideration of other gods/.goddesses? Why then, are there so many different religions in the world? Should there be any one correct religion, none of the others would be 'allowed' by the deity/ies. Even if they were, how can anyone say that their religion is right and another is wrong, when the opposite side feels the same, just as strongly?

None of this is to say that there may not be a higher power, though that seems extremely likely, but more to say that there is no god/goddess in existence that resembles any of the ones proposed by current religion.

Now after seeing the proof, why not consider the cause behind religion to better understand why, if none of the world religions have concrete backing, they exist at all.

People are, in general, stupid creatures. We are lazy when it comes to thinking; we want the easy way out. Inventing a god to tell us what to do so that we don't have to worry about the details, or depressing points, of life is essentially human nature. Early man didn't have science to explain things like rainbows and thunderstorms, they had to find some cause behind these 'unfathomable' things. Vanity played into it as well; humans like to feel important, they want to have been put here for a purpose. This has also allowed the majority to be exploited by the religious officials. It's no coincidence that Whenever the people turn desperately to the church, the clergy comes away pretty well off. There is an enormous amount of profit to be made by telling people that a higher being loves them, and their sins can be forgiven for a small donation.

The reason religion has perpetuated even into this age where we should know better, is that we hold to strongly to tradition. This is why, even though there is little more difference between 'blacks' and 'whites' and other ethnicities than an incredibly recent evolutionary divergence, racism still persists. This is why, even though the physical superiority which proves the only major advantage men have over women is long since unneeded, sexism still exists in the workplace. We hold strong to our belief in gods not only because we still want to be important in this vastly complicated universe, but because we have been bred into it by countless generations.

The worst part is that reports of miracles, signs, and other religious events rests solely on our superstitious response to coincidence. Due to the vast complexity of the world, strange things are bound to happen occasionally: something happens some time, possibly years, after you pray for it. If it doesn't, you assume it will happen later, or you're not ready for it. This trait makes us susceptible to so much. We see a coincidence as a miracle, and one 'miracle' stays with us in our minds much longer than every time one doesn't happen.

In short, none of the gods or goddesses are real, they are products of the vanity, laziness, and superstitious nature of humans. It is much better to think freely and gamble on the slight chance that there is a god. Any vengeful god that would damn a person for eternity because they used their mind rather than blind faith is no god worth worshiping.

Answer 9

This really depends on your standpoint in religion.

There are three types of religion, monotheism (single god), polytheism (multiple gods), and aethist (no god).

Communist countries are technically aethist.

Most religions are monotheists, they believe in one God. Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Protestants, all believe in one single god, whether is be Mohammed or "God."

The ancient Greeks and Romans in what is referred to as their 'folklore' were polytheists. Based on present day beliefs of most religions they are all fake. The Romans in their 'real' religion were monotheists, hance the term Roman Catholic. The greek gods and goddesses were part of "mythology," the term 'myth' means not true. So technically speaking they are not real, but it really depends on what you choose to believe in.

Answer 10

it all depends on what religion you subscribe to... if you are pagan than many Gods/ Godesses in the greek and roman panteon are quite real.