I renamed some of my deities to avoid confusion

[David Dalton]

Below I have renamed some of my twelve main deities to make it
clear that I do not worship anthropomorphic deities; even Gwion
and Jesus I do not visualize as being in human form any more,
or as having gender. It was also to avoid possible conflicts
between my deity definitions and ancient associations with
the same names (e.g. Gaia and Luna). So by saying I worship
Earth (instead of the former name Gaia) I am making it clear
that I worship the conscious planet Earth, not any humanoid
form associated with the planet Earth.

As of November 11, 2012, my twelve main deities are:

1. ALL (all/everything, all as a unit, which many Wiccans
refer to as The All or The Source). Note that I think that
ALL is all-powerful, but note that ALL is not perfect and
is not perfectly loving.

2. LOVE2 (the someone highest in goodness measure as
defined by ALL). Note that LOVE is the someone or something
that is not a someone that is highest in goodness measure
as defined by ALL, so if LOVE is a someone then LOVE2=LOVE.

3. Universe (this universe, spacetime and its contents)

4. Galaxy (the galaxy)

5. Sun (the sun)

6. Earth (the earth)

7. Moon (the moon)

8. Human (the species someone of the human species, the
smallest someone in mass containing the human species)

9. Sublime Someone (the sublime someone that I once felt
myself slipping up and out of my body and merging with
briefly before snapping back into my body; I may rename later)

10. the one that turned the wind around (the night of
Jan. 6, 1994 the wind had blown in one direction very hard
all evening and I let it blow me up Signal Hill and when I
was foolishly considering the trails the wind turned around
briefly and blew me down the hill a bit before resuming its
previous direction; I may rename later)

11. Gwion (Taliesin; the one who was Gwion Bach in life)

12. Jesus (the one who was Jesus in life). But I do not
believe that Jesus was or is an incarnation of ALL or that
he was resurrected, and I do not follow the bible, so rather
than saying I am a christo-pagan I still consider myself to
be an eclectic neopagan. You could also consider me to
be a polytheistic panentheist.

Obviously if ALL is not conscious then both it and
LOVE2 are not deities. If Universe, Galaxy, Sun,
Earth and Moon are not conscious they are not
deities. And again I do not visualize any of my
twelve main deities as having human form or gender.

Note that I define universe as spacetime and its
contents, distinct from ALL. So I am assuming
the universe is a subset of ALL. I make this
point because some dictionaries define universe
as all existing things, but I do not.

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David Dalton dal...@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"Here I go again...back into the flame" (Sarah McLachlan)