Polytheism, as it happens, is basically a pretty simple concept. All it means, if you say you are a polytheist, is that you believe in and honor multiple gods. That is it, […]
What Do They Want? Hints for the Headblind on Determining the Will of the Gods
I am, as I will freely admit, not a woo person. On the whole I am fine with this–from what I have observed, having an active godphone is not a thing that […]
Using Your Gifts for the Gods
There are many ways to honor the gods. Prayer, rituals, and offerings are the ones we think of most often; they are so very explicitly god-directed that it can be hard to […]
Artemis, Goddess of Mothers of Daughters
I was married before I knew there was such a thing as paganism. I was a mother before I became a polytheist. In other words, as long as I have been a […]
One of Us
I spent some time today reading blogs. There are a lot of blogs I follow (I really need to set up a blogroll here, come to think of it), with focuses on […]
Practice and Belief
People often call the pagan and polytheistic religions orthopraxic (having to do with “right practice”), to contrast them with religions that are orthodoxic (having to do with “right belief”). As it happens, […]
Low-Maintenance Polytheism
I grew up in the 60s and 70s. I am too young to be an old hippie but I was certainly aware of them when I was a little girl. Something about […]
Why I Am A Polytheist
There’s a reason I am a hard polytheist, and that reason is that hard polytheism is the lens through which I (as in me, personally, as an individual) see the gods most […]
My kind of polytheism
Way back in the dark ages (by which I mean the 90s), I knew of two kinds of polytheism–hard and soft–and was mighty proud of myself for knowing the difference. Hard polytheism […]