Populating Polytheist Pantheons: What To Do With "New Gods"

March 29, 2012 by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus

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These are questions that I am currently struggling with, and I suspect that future posts in this column will also deal with it further. In the meantime, I would be very happy to hear your own thoughts, experiences, and discussion on this matter!

It is my suspicion, however, that just as we have seen a drastic growth in the rates of population over the last few decades, and likewise we've seen a significant increase in the number of modern self-identified Pagans and polytheist groups in that time, so too will we start to see an expansion of deities, not only in terms of new aspects of deities that will come into being for our own times and situations, but also of entirely new beings who have never been known in previous human history. It's an exciting prospect, certainly, but also one that needs to be approached with great seriousness and sincerity for our traditions to continue to grow, and for our ideals of pluralism and our theologies of polytheism to be true to their words.

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About P. Sufenas Virius Lupus

P. Sufenas Virius Lupus is a metagender and a founding member of the Ekklesía Antínoou (a queer, Graeco-Roman-Egyptian syncretist reconstructionist polytheist religious group dedicated to Antinous, the deified lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and other related gods and divine figures). E is a contributing member of Neos Alexandria and a Celtic Reconstructionist pagan in the filidecht and gentlidecht traditions. Follow Lupus' work on the Aedicula Antinoi blog.

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