Smite the Unbeliever!

My elder brother, Dave, is very dogmatic. He’s been in therapy for years now, he tells me, about what I haven’t inquired yet. Could be his tours in Nam. In any event, he tells me that religion is bunk, gods aren’t real, and only the stupid believe in them.

This is the time I really wish I had a deep close connection with some deity – ANY deity – and could ask the favor of him being enlightened. Just a quick visit by someone the god sends. Doesn’t have to be the deity him/herself. Just a series of eye opening occurrences  to jolt him out of his ‘logical’ mindset.

He struggles to continue to live because he’s afraid of what happens after death. I wish I could help him see that it’s not the emptiness he fears.

Haven’t spoken to him after that call but I’m sure I will sometime soon, and I’m going to ask him if he thinks I’m gullible, stupid, etc. for my beliefs. I tried to explain UPG and SPG, and what’s going on, but without an open mind none of it makes sense to him.

Poor Dave.

Are they really that?

Ah… Hope my darling love

The gods are evil rat bastards and do not deserve our worship.  With all the raping and pillaging, fighting & backstabbing, we can add a few plagues and rivers and/or lakes of blood worst yet never giving us what we want but what we need and yes, we can come up with the idea that they are EVIL. Evil just evil.

Not worth our worship or time. After all, don’t’ they need us just as much as we need them. OR as rational beings we have science so to hell with the gods.

I hear you  

I hear your panic at the idea of trusting this

I understand that fear, and I know that fear.   

I hear you

I love you

I want you to remember.  

1. Mythology is not literal it is allegorical
2. Mythology like parables, Grimm’s folktales, stories and other fables exist to teach children and adults what to fear and how to behave or how not to behave.
3. Mythology was translated and written by the winners (in most causes what we consider modern translations were written by good white male Victorians who didn’t want their women to be free thinking sexual beings. Power and control over the means of production – heirs, preferably male to maintain holdings of money and land. Or even more devious in my mind adopting them into your pantheon and changing them to make them weaker something to fear.)
4. How you look at a myth is how you gain it’s understanding. Medusa seducing Jason and getting her head cut off because she was a monster – a perfect example the decapitation of female empowerment or is the myth just about a poor man just trying to get home back to his wife & country and all these evil monsters are in his way.
5. Follow the pattern of conquest and see how the gods changed and evolved with each conquest. The mythology of the Mediterranean starts in ancient Egypt and Africa thousands and thousands of years ago. People will change the mythology of the gods to fit their government, their tribal beliefs and their need for power and control. And what is rape if not all about power, fear and control.    
6. You know my past, the abuse I had as a child so I ask you with that abuse of power and control how could I if I believed that Hades raped Persephone would I worship the both of them? I in all my years of communion and worship with the both of them have never gotten a rape vibe off of Hades. There have been some thought forms or some darker force that did try to approach me in such a way but that was not MY Hades and I sent their asses packing. My Hades does not dwell in a Christianize version Elysium and Persephone is their QUEEN. All my years of worship Persephone has never felt weak, or the victim of circumstances. She is not the side note to Hades story she is a power all to herself and a Queen of her own realm.
7. Ask yourself who benefits from the telling the tales of the old gods as evil raping villains?

I do believe that the gods are a reflection of humanity in all our good, bad and ugly. Their maybe even one or two who are reviling in this notion of making the old gods look petty, vengeful and full of spite. There are more than one or two that are about peace, love and tranquility. I know that when I feel down and overcome by the crazy happening in the world right now I remember Quan Yin, Nammu, Sekhmet, Hestia, Nut, Saraswati  and Hathor. Goddess of love, community and protection.

You always have the power to choose who and how you worship.

You have the power to deiced IF you want to worship a god or goddess. Which ones you worship which ones you don’t.

You have the power over how you worship.

You have the ability obverse, question, discover and interpreter mythology to empower you.

Much love

Nettle

Are the Gods virtuous?

John Bennett, whom I greatly admire, says that the Gods are virtuous.

I read the stories and find little virtue in them.

They rape. They murder. They are petty and vindictive. They are arbitrary.  They are dishonest. They attack each other, slander each other, backstab each other.

In essence, they reflect humanity at its worst.

Even the ‘good’ ones.

To accept them, you have to accept ALL of them, ALL of their traits, ALL of their faults.

So what separates us?

You have more power, more experience, a better view of events.

Is that enough?

Can it be enough?