Where is my Paganism? (part 1)
6 Comments | January 23, 2008 at 7:54 am by mahud
Filed under Cernunnos, Paganism, Sprituality
It was great to discover a recent post at Simple Magics: Solitary Series - Venturing into the Community. I’m uncertain where my interest in Paganism is taking me. I’ve recently delved deeper into Wicca. I’ve read various introductory stuff off the internet and Google Books, and have read (and skimmed) through Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft. Another site I’ve found useful was Blue Moon Wicca: Solitary.
As I came to Paganism, I was largely influenced by Joseph Campbell’s believe that “myth is metaphor,” and I still feel that this is true to an extent, but I am increasingly being open to the belief in other Gods and Goddesses. I am at least attempting to open myself up to the possibility that polytheistic deities as individuals, and I want to get to know them.
Over recent months I have been honouring the God Cernunnos upon an altar, but not so much as a distinctly divine entity in his own right, but rather as a, I guess, archetypal Dying (and Rising) God, which I feel is the way ahead for me, but I also want to know the Gods, Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysos, on a personal level as well as a archetypal level. I wonder how far their mythologies of death (and rebirth) deities, really point towards one specific Deity, or many different Gods/Goddesses who share the same basic mythology.
I’m sure I post more ramblings related to this question soon.
On another note, I’ve really been trying to finish the third installment of Diarmaid and the Cosmic Boar (The Cosmic Double-Death of Re-Creation: Part 3). I’ve managed a few paragraphs, and would really love to finish this soon. Sorry about the delay.
