say that all gods and goddesses are one god and goddess? That your gods and goddesses are part of one divine couple?
2007-08-29 15:43:09 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no - not it!
2007-08-29 15:46:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm interesting question.
The Heathens do indeed feel that the gods are individual and unique. Frigga is NOT Isis or Athena. They are not a part of another pantheon. That we are the literal descendants of our Elder Kin.
I DO know some Heathen who feel its VERY disrespectful to think that Frig and Freya are the same as any other Goddess and are under one title of Goddess.
I am of the mind that the Gods can stick up for themselves. Just don't be surprised if you say that Freya is an "aspect" of the goddess that you get some heated answers. LOL
2007-08-29 22:56:02 · answer #2 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most heathens I know view the gods as their elder kin. How would you feel if I insisted that your grandmother was my grandmother, too? That's the same sort of feeling heathens get when someone from a different cultural family co-opts one of our kin as being "the same" as theirs.
For example: I'm a white American male who has an office job and drives a car. That doesn't make me the same person as all the other people who fit that description. Just because we share similar traits doesn't make us identical beings. I'm not an aspect or reflection of them, nor are they of me.
Many heathens believe it is exactly the same way with the gods. Odin, Zeus, Quetzalcoatl, and Osiris may well know each other. They may even get together to drink whiskey, smoke cigars, and play Texas Hold'em now and then... but they are not the same being.
As to the "part of one divine couple" perspective, that is also a gross oversimplification. If you don't personally feel deeply connected to any individual culture, fine. If the way you conceptualize and interact with the divine is as some great pan-galactic gestalt, that's your biz. But do not insist that my gods are just facets of yours. That's ignorant and disrespectful.
2007-08-30 16:25:53 · answer #3 · answered by Mike H. 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because that's not what we believe. If you want a god/goddess hermaphrodite, try the Greek Abraxas deity or make up some god of your own. Don't try to sell us false ideas about our own beliefs. Besides, it's pretty stupid to go out of your way to offend someone you probably has a large collection of swords, spears, and axes.
2007-09-01 18:00:47 · answer #4 · answered by Robin Runesinger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.... yes and no.
If it was my wife i wouldnt becuse its her fitting me in to her beliefs just like I fit her into mine. (which is easier becuse theres no "belive in me or suffer for eternity" clause in asatru)
But Yeah that would piss me off. I'd have a hard time not punching you in the face if you said that to me. Its not offended, its agitation. Thats essentially ignorance. becuse if they know enough to know that Asafolk worship more then one god, they should know that worship is not the correct term. This is Kind of like someone walking around saying "god is a woman", or "jesus had a wife", or "What you belive is wrong".
its hard to describe becuse thats really an asafolk only problem. (well and the greek/roman pantheon, and the egyptian pantheon. But to my understanding there arnt a lot of them running around.
2007-09-02 13:32:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't feel offended. I find it slightly ridiculous, but hey, everyone is entitled to their belief and as long as they leave me alone and don't try to cram it down my throat, they can believe that all their gods are the Easter bunny, for all I care.
I have my own personal relationship with my Gods and somebody else's opinion doesn't affect that.
Whether I find it wrong, laughable, stupid.. or not.
2007-08-30 17:09:46 · answer #6 · answered by Ymmo the Heathen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course, I do. They are all individuals in their own right, and deserve to be worshiped as such. The whole idea they are all one deity or a pair of deities is just monotheism in diguise, a clinging to Christian concepts in my opinion.
2007-08-30 07:26:12 · answer #7 · answered by Swain 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't get offended.
No more offended than I get when someone thinks 5x5=30.
It's the same concept. They're simply incorrect, and that's what I think of them.
*shrug*
2007-08-30 09:43:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
well first of im Pagan not a heathen.... and no i to belive that all gods are one god just seen in a differnt form to every group or individial....
2007-08-29 22:47:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't care what they think or say. I will just tell them they are wrong and ask that they don't try to fit my gods into their belief.
2007-08-31 19:44:43 · answer #10 · answered by Jonathan D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
... What?
Got distracted with the "divine couple" image....
2007-08-29 22:47:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋