mewtwo Posted September 3, 2011 So um yeah if you have a home alter what is the main deity or deities in the alter? cause i think i found The perfect god for me. Her name is santa muerte. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Muerte Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
konchog uma Posted September 3, 2011 shiva, among others. i have a crystal skull to honor death! it sits front and center on my alter santa muerte looks awesome! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted September 3, 2011 Her name is santa muerte. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Muerte I saw a documentary on her and the festival a few months back on TV. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apech Posted September 3, 2011 Nehebkau ... if your going to have a snake-god it should be a good snake-god. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Birch Posted September 3, 2011 Nehebkau ... if your going to have a snake-god it should be a good snake-god. hilarious:-) Sorry, hope you don't think I' blaspheming. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Birch Posted September 3, 2011 I like Diana the huntress and I like being a yang water person (so I worship myself hahahaha) and sunsets and trees and beaches and oceans and, er "natural things". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apech Posted September 3, 2011 hilarious:-) Sorry, hope you don't think I' blaspheming. O Nehebkau who comes from the city: I have not sought to make myself unduly distinguished. -- The Negative Confessions, The Book of the Dead ... its all about humility . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Birch Posted September 3, 2011 O Nehebkau who comes from the city: I have not sought to make myself unduly distinguished. -- The Negative Confessions, The Book of the Dead ... its all about humility . The text link was good. What's "humility"? I recognize it as something that helps if you want other people to appreciate you but I'm pretty sure I have it backwards (as usual:-)) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apech Posted September 3, 2011 The text link was good. What's "humility"? I recognize it as something that helps if you want other people to appreciate you but I'm pretty sure I have it backwards (as usual:-)) Aha. The word humble originally meant your offal, your intestines etc. (which are snake like) ... so being humble is being basic or perhaps fundamental. Most snakes crawl on their belly ... but this snake Neheb-kau has legs. When the Egyptians put legs on things it is a symbolic language for 'it moves of itself'. Compared to the energy which provides ka(s) and links them all together, Neheb-kau ... we should be humble. So in the Negative Confession ... the judgement scene of the weighing of the heart - when judged before Neheb-kau you say " I didn't think of myself as anything special ... I didn't distinguish myself from what I fundamentally am ... I kept things in proportion." Egyptian art is like their writing ... it has to be read to be understood. a link to a story involving the serpent god Shipwrecked sailor Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
~riverflow Posted September 3, 2011 Kannon / Quan Yin / Avalokitesvara = the goddess of comapassion You never know when she may show up, including in your own actions... _/|\_ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doc benway Posted September 3, 2011 The one that's hiding inside of me somewhere - no name, no gender, can't really say much more about it... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted September 3, 2011 I always had a leaning toward Apathia. Apathia: the Stoic ideal was calmness in all circumstance an insensibility to pain, and absence of all exaltation at, pleasure or good fortune. She just doesn't give a shit. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Birch Posted September 3, 2011 "She just doesn't give a shit." I like her! No need to please:-) Most gods want stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GreytoWhite Posted September 4, 2011 I worship no gods. Baha'u'llah and I have an understanding, his guardianship has been crucial to my well being. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted September 5, 2011 I worship no gods. Baha'u'llah and I have an understanding, his guardianship has been crucial to my well being. Nice way of looking at it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
innerspace_cadet Posted September 5, 2011 Though I'm not a Hindu, I have prayed to Ganesha in the past whenever I got into a bind. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adishakti Posted September 5, 2011 I find Shiva so sexy and want a partner like him. But off course the chances are he might never turn up as he is so darn busy meditating. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Informer Posted September 5, 2011 I don't worship any god. I think it works as a placebo more than anything. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ambrose_Bierce Posted September 5, 2011 I used to have a large shiva lingham in my bedroom. Then i couldnt sleep because I was already supersensitive to that type of energy. Course the crystals i have in my bedroom beside that are large as well. I have lots of selenium to repel stagnant energy. It makes for intense dreams. Vulcan was my father's God. Generally, a god presents itself. I cant share my experience with a bizarre named god because after seeing sorcerers apprentice it sounds too much like a scene from that movie. Totally ruined my ability to share it. Plus it happened years before that movie came out. LOL thanks disney Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
witch Posted September 5, 2011 I have two, being a witch. Tehuti (Thoth) and Het-hert (Hathor)/Sekhmet. Het-hert said it's time for me to learn more about her lioness side, Sekhmet, so I've been doing a bit of the Robert Masters thing--a fierce energy there. On the other hand, the older I get, the more taoist I become, so that's a balancing thing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
konchog uma Posted September 5, 2011 I don't worship any god. I think it works as a placebo more than anything. how would you explain the mythologies of nearly every culture? I can't think of one culture which doesn't have gods. why would people all over the world invent gods if there weren't some inherent reality to it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Informer Posted September 5, 2011 (edited) how would you explain the mythologies of nearly every culture? I can't think of one culture which doesn't have gods. why would people all over the world invent gods if there weren't some inherent reality to it? I simply don't pretend to. (BTW, I never said there are no gods, I simply don't worship any) If we are allowed to speculate I would say that the Ancient Aliens Theory is just as good of an explanation as a god. Even more so that we all have seen UFO's either on TV or in Real Life, how many gods have you seen on TV or in real life? Edited September 5, 2011 by Informer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted September 5, 2011 anamatva, on 05 September 2011 - 05:08 AM, said: how would you explain the mythologies of nearly every culture? I can't think of one culture which doesn't have gods. why would people all over the world invent gods if there weren't some inherent reality to it? Perhaps nearly every culture lacks internal security? Perhaps nearly every culture wants a scape goat to blame things on? Perhaps nearly every culture refuses to take responsibility for what they do? The mind is a powerful tool. It is capable of imagining many impossible things. Have you never had an imaginary friend? Gods are just as easy to imagine as are friends. I simply don't pretend to. (BTW, I never said there are no gods, I simply don't worship any) If we are allowed to speculate I would say that the Ancient Aliens Theory is just as good of an explanation as a god. Even more so that we all have seen UFO's either on TV or in Real Life, how many gods have you seen on TV or in real life? And I would suggest that you would probably say that you are not aware of any. And I am not aware of any aliens either. Many swear they have seen their vehicles and have actually seen them. Many people have seen bigfoots too. I see my pegacorn whenever I want to imagine its existence. Sad thing is, when I stop imagining it goes away. I guess it just flies off to feed in greener pastures somewhere in the lower Alps of Italy. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Everything Posted September 5, 2011 I worship light and sun/stars. Is there perhaps a sun god or something similar? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
