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Is this just too far out there, even for Pagans? (My Beliefs)
August 15, 2007 at 8:19 am by mahud
I’m still lacking in my understanding of so many Pagan practices, and I’m still not sure I fit in with the Pagan community. I have from a very long time (over ten years) saturated myself with Pagan imagery and mythologies. I believe I have been learned much (while remaining aware I have so much further to go).
My main interest is the so-called Pagan God man (examples include; Dionysus, Osiris, Mithras, Orpheus, Attis, etc, who are Gods closely connected to with Mystery Religions). I have written much on the subject, both as a Born Again Christian, A Liberal Christian, and Christian heretic, and I have finally stepped outside of the Christian frame work, and want to continue learning about a divine figure I have recently started calling the Threshold God (who dwells in liminal space between destruction and creation of the universe, and has access to the solar gateway to paradise.).
For me the Threshold god has many names including Cernunnos, Moses, Dionysus, Noah, Uta-Napishti, Pippalada, Thor, Proto-Shiva, Shiva, Ganesha, Janus, Buddha, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, Samson The Celtic Dagda, and there are others, and to me they are all the same, regardless of cultural diffusion, integration and reinterpretation over thousands of years.
I also believe in a threshold Goddess, who I also refer to as Mother (Life aspect), Maiden (virgin aspect), and Crone (death aspect), associated with the moon, and the cosmos at large. While the Solar principle if often though of in masculine terms, or the transcendent realm of the Father. I no longer think of the transcendent as masculine, but rather beyond the sexes. Both the Goddess and God whose presence permeates the universe represent the immanence (as does the serpent) of my Panentheism, while the Solar reality represents the transcendent.
I choose for my celestial symbolism the waxing a waning moon (that I refer to as the double-door), and the ever-revolving nature of the cosmos. The solar aspect of my symbolism is the sun, which is a hidden portal (I call the Solar Gateway) in the darkness between the waxing a waning moon to the transcendent realm.
My Threshold God dwells in liminal space between destruction (corresponding with the waxing moon) and creation of the universe (corresponding), and has access to the solar gateway to paradise.). Instead of passing through the eternal gateway, the Threshold god, who dies like the moon and is again reborn as the moon waxes, chooses the remain a part of the cosmos, binding it all together and bestowing upon us many gifts from beyond the fiery gateway.
Much that has led me to this symbol ritual (that I have performed many times in my mind) is the result of reading large amounts of mythology and studying ancient iconography, mainly from the Orient, Near and Middle East, Africa, and Europe.
I feel that I can call myself a Pagan of the Cosmic Mysteries. Though, I assure you, I’m still nothing more than a low grade initiate of my own mythological system.
Am I a Pagan or is this just too far out there, even for Pagans?
Much of what I’ve read recently has made me feel more confidant in sharing my beliefs. A while back I gave up on them, but somehow I feel called to keep travelling down this eclectic, and possibly idiosyncratic path.
If you continue to read Old and New Moons, you will begin to see that I interpret a lot of mythology in cosmogonic terms, from my own perspective with a little help of my comparative studies into mythological themes and motifs.
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