Who are your favorite/patron deities?
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I consider myself a Christian witch... but then, again, I'm a bit deviant and tend to view gods and goddesses as facets....
Okay, ignoring my rationalising, I love Athena. I feel major connections with her - war, wisdom, and crafts. (PS Wisdom was at one point worshipped with the Hebrew God, so I feel I can get away with that.)
As for gods... well, I generally stick to the traditional Christian Yeshua. If I had to choose a name other than that to call Him, it would be Arawn - the Lord of the Dead.
Luckily Arawn and Athena seem to get on together fairly well... I think it might be the war bit...
Okay, ignoring my rationalising, I love Athena. I feel major connections with her - war, wisdom, and crafts. (PS Wisdom was at one point worshipped with the Hebrew God, so I feel I can get away with that.)
As for gods... well, I generally stick to the traditional Christian Yeshua. If I had to choose a name other than that to call Him, it would be Arawn - the Lord of the Dead.
Luckily Arawn and Athena seem to get on together fairly well... I think it might be the war bit...
Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
And river and stream work out their will.
W. B. Yeats, Into the Twilight
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
And river and stream work out their will.
W. B. Yeats, Into the Twilight
Wow, I see my old post almost a year later and I have a completely different favorite. Just goes to show ya how things change. Lately I have been drawn the most to Kali. Now compared to my last post, I never saw it coming lol.
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~Shakespeare
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Well for God(s), I recently placed a name to my masculine deity facet, Pan. He is the God of the wild and the animals. Of forest and feild. That's where I grew up. 200 + acres of rich Ky. farmlands and woods for miles. It is only fitting.
As for my Goddess aspects, I go with Skuld, Vervandi, and Urdu. Mostly because it allows me to have an alter at work and no one notices. (It's a background on my workstation comp of the three resting atop the world with instruments) as they are also char. in a cartoon. Vervandi and Urdu are quite responsive but I do get Skuld every once in a while when I am feeling particularly youthfull.
GB.
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As for my Goddess aspects, I go with Skuld, Vervandi, and Urdu. Mostly because it allows me to have an alter at work and no one notices. (It's a background on my workstation comp of the three resting atop the world with instruments) as they are also char. in a cartoon. Vervandi and Urdu are quite responsive but I do get Skuld every once in a while when I am feeling particularly youthfull.
GB.
WW.
The greatest advice I was ever given: It matters not what you believe. Only that you believe it wholeheartedly.
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My favourite gods are generally completely different to the gods I work with - which is one of the downsides to being chosen by deities, as opposed to picking and choosing per convenience.
As for 'favourites', or deities that I really respond to, I've always liked:
- Inari, Japanese fox and rice deity
- Sekmet Het-Hert, Egyptian lioness and dark-side-of-the-sun deity
- Artemis
- Baba Yaga
But I work with and have been claimed by
- Lesavny, forest deity
- Vavale, swamp crone, custodian of lore.
- L'yuvotn'r, rain
- D'miezak'r, moon god
- Karajana, sun goddess
As for 'favourites', or deities that I really respond to, I've always liked:
- Inari, Japanese fox and rice deity
- Sekmet Het-Hert, Egyptian lioness and dark-side-of-the-sun deity
- Artemis
- Baba Yaga
But I work with and have been claimed by
- Lesavny, forest deity
- Vavale, swamp crone, custodian of lore.
- L'yuvotn'r, rain
- D'miezak'r, moon god
- Karajana, sun goddess
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