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The_Heretic · 01-05-2008, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Gaia

Merry Meet!

I greet the Sun every morning, and the Moon every night, I am in constant touch with the Earth under my feet and I call her Mother. I don't fully understand why everything IS, but I am very happy to be aware of it.

Here is a really good website to research ancient Religions:

http://www.pantheon.org/

To fully (well...that might be overstated a bit, but...) understand (or try to) Monotheism, one has to go back to Zoraster.

This God we are all discusiing HERE, is the God of the Israelites exclusively, no?

I am not Jewish, my Roots are not in the Middle East, my ancient Ancestors had their own Gods, which to this Day, are firmly embedded in their collective memories. Two Days of the Week are devoted to the Norse Gods: Thusday = Thor, Friday = Freya. And Sunday = devoted to the Sun, Monday = devoted to the Moon, Saturday = devoted to Saturn. Tuesday & Wednesday...I don't really know what they mean..?

Faeries are in some form, in many cultural/religious beliefs. Mostly are (not very friendly) Nature Spirits. The reason I say not very friendly, is they don't like Humans (much) because they are not taking care of Mother properly, treat her with utter disregard, and the Fey do not like that.

Angels (in my opinion) are a sort of knock-off/copy of Faeries, made nicer and more user-friendly.

Monotheism completely disregards/ignores, the Sacred Feminine, with that all-powerful Male God with no Mate. It is a Un-Natural Theology. Because on THIS Earth, the Principle of Male AND Female are the natural Foundation of Life.

Merry Part!

...and Merry Meet again....

The image of angels, that being a guy with wings, comes from the Greek, where pottery often had the soothsayer [the guy slicing open a chicken to read the entrails] with wings. Plus, there's likely some Egytpian incluence as well, since arcs [the stone tablet carrying variety] have theor origins in
Egypt and chimeric animals on the lid also had wings. Plus, the angels are clearly detatched from or above the Earth while fairies tend to be of/with it.

You're right that leaving the feminine out of theology- or making it subordinate to the masculine, is an imbalance. In one of my novels the aliens have four sexes, and so see everything in tetrachotamies instead of dichotamies, affecting every aspect of their psychology, their creation myths and all else.