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What are some good masculine deities? and what makes them good and why?
which MAle God best represents, ( to you) all the best qualities of Manhood?Why? and what are HIs qualities that make Him this way?
What are some good masculine deities? and what makes them good and why?
which MAle God best represents, ( to you) all the best qualities of Manhood?Why? and what are HIs qualities that make Him this way?
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Re: Manhood and the masculine divine
Tue, April 1, 2008 - 11:23 AMCernunnos for me because he represents all that is virile and Divine in men.
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Re: Manhood and the masculine divine
Tue, April 1, 2008 - 9:27 PMI think of the deities as individual personalities. Not so much as abstract representations of ideas such as masculinity.
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Re: Manhood and the masculine divine
Wed, April 2, 2008 - 1:36 PMMercury:
mutability, action, and talk talk talk. I love to talk. I love to listen to people talk. -
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Re: Manhood and the masculine divine
Wed, April 2, 2008 - 11:49 PMDo I have to pick just one? And do I have to stick to the characteristics set down a few centuries ago or go by my own personal experience with them?
For example Pan is seen as fertility and well...a bit of randiness...yet my experience in working with Him has included a sense of a not just the fertile/sexual side but also a nurturing side. Truth to tell if it weren't for Pan there have been some relationship experiences I may not have survived.
Then there is Herne - similar but very different, more....fatherly than anything in my experience.
When I really think about it I'm not sure there is just one God that can "best" represent the manhood or the masculine Divine because there are MANY ways to manifest "manhood" just as there are many ways to manifest "womanhood" and there isn't any one particular Goddess that embodies "best" the Divine feminine (the way I think anyway).
Peace,
Raven
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Re: Manhood and the masculine divine
Thu, April 3, 2008 - 7:30 AMWhen you ask for "good" masculine deities, I'm assuming you mean "good" to his followers in my response. Odin, the Norse overseer, represents war and battle and death, but to honorable followers he also brings magic, prophecy, poetry and good fortune. To me, he represents all sides of masculinity in that he is tempered accordingly, and falling into his good graces comes through heartfelt following and homor to his position in the Germanic runic path.
