Religious Syncretism and Heathenry

[Argyll]

Well, to me, worshipping gods from another pantheon is blasphemous to me. I believe you should stick to one pantheon. Different pagan religions have different beliefs which cause conflicts (culturally and spiritually) when you try to work with them.

Also, it's incredibly dangerous to summon gods from different pantheons as they usually don't get along with each other. They would also probably be arguing over who gets the soul when you die. Your soul probably can't go back and forth between the deitys' realms (afterlife worlds/ final resting place).

Blasphemy isn't really much of a Christian thing. In its essence, it means doing something towards a god(s).

[Osweo]

Also, it's incredibly dangerous to summon gods from different pantheons as they usually don't get along with each other. They would also probably be arguing over who gets the soul when you die. Your soul probably can't go back and forth between the deitys' realms (afterlife worlds/ final resting place).

So basically all the Celts who ever lived under Romanisation, and worshipped the likes of Hercules-Ogmios or Minerva-Belisama, are fucked, yes?

That's a good few centuries worth of Celtic souls from Iberia, Britannia, Gaul, Rhaetia, Northern Italy, the Danubian Provinces, and Galatia that you've just written off. Sounds like bollocks to me.

[RagnarLodbrok666]

So basically all the Celts who ever lived under Romanisation, and worshipped the likes of Hercules-Ogmios or Minerva-Belisama, are fucked, yes?

That's a good few centuries worth of Celtic souls from Iberia, Britannia, Gaul, Rhaetia, Northern Italy, the Danubian Provinces, and Galatia that you've just written off. Sounds like bollocks to me.

Hercules-Ogmios

Yes really different ethnic cultures but from same indo-european race. Anyone who says that sounds like one of those crypto-zionists, national futurist/skadi.net types. Von Hoffmeister, really? That guys just a nutjob.

[Aemma]

Hercules-Ogmios

Yes really different ethnic cultures but from same indo-european race. Anyone who says that sounds like one of those crypto-zionists, national futurist/skadi.net types. Von Hoffmeister, really? That guys just a nutjob.

It sounds like somebody accused you once of sounding like this guy? Or am I misreading your post?

[Osweo]

Hercules-Ogmios

Yes really different ethnic cultures but from same indo-european race. Anyone who says that sounds like one of those crypto-zionists, national futurist/skadi.net types. Von Hoffmeister, really? That guys just a nutjob.

Er.... what are you talking about!?

[Mercury]

By rights, I should perhaps be practising a more Gallo-Roman type of paganism, mixed in with some Continental Germanic heathenry of the Frankish sort, with a dash of Norse and Saxon Heathenry for good measure, and oh wait, some Celtic Druidry so I can have all of my cultural bases covered.

Why stop there? Seeing as how West Europeans are mostly of pre-IE origin, you mine as well reject all those Astiatic, alien Indo-European Gods and stick to some Basque-like Megalithic religion. That's why this "Folkish" stuff seems silly to me.

[Baron Samedi]

Well, to me, worshipping gods from another pantheon is blasphemous to me. I believe you should stick to one pantheon. Different pagan religions have different beliefs which cause conflicts (culturally and spiritually) when you try to work with them.

Also, it's incredibly dangerous to summon gods from different pantheons as they usually don't get along with each other. They would also probably be arguing over who gets the soul when you die. Your soul probably can't go back and forth between the deitys' realms (afterlife worlds/ final resting place).

Blasphemy isn't really much of a Christian thing. In its essence, it means doing something towards a god(s).

The problem with a lot of Celtic stuff is... Where do pantheons begin/end?

It's like a certain Germanic tribe adopting Epona, a Celtic horse goddess (as I have mentioned before).

Our ancestors were pagans and individuals, not strict and dogmatic people who had to rigidly adhere to a mythos.

That's a modern-day thing

[Aemma]

Why stop there? Seeing as how West Europeans are mostly of pre-IE origin, you mine as well reject all those Astiatic, alien Indo-European Gods and stick to some Basque-like Megalithic religion. That's why this "Folkish" stuff seems silly to me.

lolwut?

You are not trolling me in my own thread are you Mercury?

[Mercury]

The problem with a lot of Celtic stuff is... Where do pantheons begin/end?

That's the problem with every pagan religion. Personally I think there is literally only one Pantheon of Gods, with a Sky Father (who the Hebrews would call Yahweh) and lesser deities. Every culture and nation has interpreted the God(s) differently which is where we get different religions. It may sound somewhat new agey but I don't see it that way.. at least the Romans & Greeks would have agreed with me.

[Osweo]

Face it Merc; you're a Tengrianist!