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Where is my Paganism? (part 1)

January 23, 2008 at 7:54 am by mahud

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.

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6 Comments (Have your say)

  1. Maritzia

    Comment on January 23, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    You link for Blue Moon Wicca: Solitary is going to a bad page. Do you have an updated link? I would be interested in reading it.

  2. mahud

    Comment on January 23, 2008 at 10:44 pm

    Link fixed. Sorry about that :)

  3. Aquila ka Hecate

    Comment on January 24, 2008 at 10:27 am

    The Buckland is a pretty good book - my lineage comes from Raymond and Rosemary, eventually.

    It’s a good ‘how-to’ work, less cerebral, more action, which may be a good way to go for you at the moment.

    Love,
    Terri in Joburg

  4. mahud

    Comment on January 29, 2008 at 8:16 am

    Hi, Terri. Sorry my reply has taken so long. I think you are right about the physical stuff, although the equipment I would need: ritual knife, cauldron, incense burner, etc, isn’t going to be easy for me to collect, partly because of money issues, and there are no pagan shops where I’m living. Not even a general bookshop (we do have a library though). Plus some of the pagan paraphernalia looks a bit cheesy on the internet.

    Also I like the wheel of the seasons and celebrations that go around with that. Apart from observing the lunar cycle, I don’t have any other seasonal ritual structure.

  5. Pitch313

    Comment on February 2, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    You might find it interesting to look over some of the Border ballads vis a vis what they suggest about magic, Faery beings, how the living and the dead get along, and the character of a land openly acknowledged as enchanted.

    More generally, I’d suggest that you try to balance reading a lot of commentary (and I’d say that much of the accesible literature is commentary) with primary sources. Or sources as primary as may be found.

    As for gathering tools, well, it often turns out that good tools show up if you are a little patient.

  6. mahud

    Comment on February 5, 2008 at 8:04 am

    Hi, Pitch. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

    I’m completely unfamiliar with ‘border ballads,’ though. Could you tell me a bit about them?

    I try to read as much as I can, while avoiding stuff that I perceive as being fluffy.

    Raymond Buckland in the Complete Book of Witchcraft, said pretty much the same thing about good tools presenting themselves over time.

    Thanks from dropping in :)

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