I recently had someone ask me if demigod would be considered otherkin. I told them I had no idea but I’d try to find out. So I tried. All I learned is that there’s a HUGE Percy Jackson fan base and a video game called demigods. The only “reliable” info I could find was from wikipedia and a travel agency site. I kid you not. So does anyone have an answer? A question of my own would be that, should you discover yourself to be a demigod, where would you go from there? What should you learn and study?

I’m generally honor the Greek pantheon (obviously so). But then I have some of the Kemetic pantheon I work with (which led to the Christopagan thing), and I feel bad enough that I can’t choose between then. But then the Irish barge in like “knock knock, heritage calling.” And I realize that being a hard polytheistic pagan I can honor/worship them all as long as I do so in context etc etc. but it’s hard to have shrines for one pantheon, let alone 3. So I end up making shrines just for those I work with most. And then I feel crappy for “ignoring” the others so my working altar becomes a catch all for everyone who doesn’t have an individual shrine, but then I have to decorate it for the seasons. . … Seriously, I think this was so much simpler when I only really knew about Mother Goddess and Father God. I hate always dwelling like I need to “choose” a pantheon. It’s like choosing between sides of my family. I feel like I have this very large divine family reunion going on, and the presence is seriously overwhelming, but at the same time I rather like everyone hanging around as they please. Anyone else have a similar experience with pantheons?

So I’ve never heard of the phenomena before. And that’s saying something. Apparently they’ll come up to you, either knock on your door or your car window and ask for a ride, to use the bathroom, to call their mom, etc. You’ll get a really terrified feeling, see their eyes, and they’ll get angry that you won’t let them. Apparently no one’s ever let them in so we don’t know what they do. I’m really curious about it though. In old fairy tales, faeries would ask humans for assistance of some kind as a test. If you gave them your help, they’d help you later in life. If you denied them, terrible things would happen. Could it be something like that? Others have suggested vampires or aliens, though vampires sound more likely than aliens. 

Here’s a link for a better explanation: http://www.paranormalhaze.com/black-eyed-kids-legend-or-truth/

Have any of you heard of/experienced this?

So there’s a screen image of a list of supposedly openly pagan celebrities going around. I rather doubt many of the names on the list so have tried to research them. 

Alyson Hannigan — As far as I can tell it’s just a rumor tied to her being Willow on Buffy. 

Avril Lavigne — She apparently declared herself openly as a wiccan in an interview a few years ago but I was unable to find it. It’s also been cited that she’s a Roman Catholic. (Could she possible be a Christopagan??). So, she’s either Wiccan or Catholic. 

Fairuza Balk — She’s the only one on the list that’s a “maybe” that I believe to be pagan. She was openly pagan after The Craft, and owned at least for awhile an occult shop. 

Fred Durst — He was apparently raised a Wiccan, but I was unable to find this cited anywhere reliable. 

George Lucas — He’s also a pretty likely maybe. But most listed him solely for “the Force”. 

George Takei — Can’t figure out why he’s listed. I found absolutely no reference to him being pagan. 

Tamora Pierce — Yeah, she’s seems to only be listed because most of her books use made up pagan religions. 

Vanessa Carlton — again, nothing reliable. She apparently uses pagan imagery in her music, though I’ve never heard it in any of the songs I’ve listened to of hers and that’s a lot. 

Virgina Woolf — She’s likely a neo-pagan, which is what she apparently claims to be. I couldn’t find any reference to this at all tho. 

Yoko Ono— As far as I can tell she was only listed because she was into tarot and psychics. 

The entire list can be seen at www.angelfire.com/ia/Geoff/famous.html but the site seems to have been inactive since about 2006. I was going to contact the author to hear his references for my own personal knowledge, but he has absolutely no contact information on the site, not even an email address, instructing visitors to sign his guestbook in order to contact him. The guestbook has been disabled. 

Do you know anything that could solve this debate?

If you do, please include the source or information to find it. Thank you. 

As someone who actively studied the French language and culture for 3 years in high school and had a hell of a time trying to translate pagan related sentences/paragraphs due to lack of accurate vocabulary, this is fascinating!

I actually cried reading this. I’ve never understood how anyone claiming to be religious or a devout practitioner of any religion could be so cruel and kill someone for practicing another religion, especially if the the religion in question (the one doing the persecuting) has actual laws against murder!

the-coffin-club:

adaoineile:

You do not have to be monogamous to be a godspouse.

You do not have to be monogamous to be a godspouse.

You do not have to be monogamous to be a godspouse.

You do not have to be monogamous to be a godspouse.

• You do not have to be monogamous to be a godspouse.

You do not have to be monogamous to be a godspouse.

hawkschild said: You also don’t have to be limited to Spirits/Gods Only. People DO have mortal spouses and sometimes other mortal lovers.

 

This. All of this. 

I’m going to open this up to you guys. So, it’s fairly obvious that nuns consider Jesus their spouse. But could Jesus be a godspouse in the pagan sense? Has anyone heard of a pagan being approached by him for such a relationship?