Any other Pagans around here?

[katiebesss]

I'm just curious how many other Pagans might be on Lit since celebrating sexuality is so integral to our beliefs and even practices.

I'm Wiccan, since I was 16 but I've tried other Pagan paths such as Feri. I've been in a Coven but found that I work better as a Solitary. I prefer to do my rituals outdoors and am trying to plan something for Litha / Summer Sostice.

Looking forward to hearing from other Pagans (or even just the curious).

 

[pensivepoet]

I can't live on just Pags.
All protein

 

[Hard_Rom]

I suppose I could be called pagan. Technically an atheist but am decorated with pagan tattoos. Wild boar, bindrune and Huginn and Muninn with Norse saga script. It's more a Jungian thing, archtypes and such. I wear a pouch with quartz, carnelian, bloodstone and amber inside. Attached is a pentagram and a mammoth ivory sun medallion.

More symbolism and spirituality than true belief. I guess you could call it faith over believing.

I don't see much difference between a Christian priest in their vestments to any pagan wizard in moon and star robes. You adhere to symbols that have meaning for you personally.

Magic is not real in the sense of abracadabra you're a frog or cursed. But ceremony, thought collection and symbols to focus concentration on are. It's all in the mind. But the mind is a powerful thing.

 

[chillywilly2]

no pagans, just perverts...its a sex forum

 

[pink]

no pagans, just perverts...its a sex forum

and one protestant. *grin*

 

[Hard_Rom]

no pagans, just perverts...its a sex forum

You've never had sex with a pagan witch chick. Damn near a religious experience. For her it actually could be. Lots of creative and procreative energies jumping about.

Probably worse thing about the Abrahamic faiths. They took all the sexual energies out and just made it for procreation. Maybe a bit of fun but that varies by sect.

 

[stickygirl]

Love Paganini
I'd like to do more dancing naked with antlers on my head and I have some token lumps of citrine quartz too.

 

[Tommybowler]

Yes in my own way. I'll be doing something for the solstice there is a standing stone on a hill near me I plan to goto.

I like how it follows the seasons and puts me back in touch with the soil.

I'm lucky my village seems to accidentally calibrate some of the sabbats. I'll be grilling pork and serving ale on Saturday as we welcome the summer with music food and drinking.

I have been looking into the names of the days of the week in English I love the connection. To paganism and the Norse legends. Today was Woden / Odin's day.

As a Wiccan friend once said its not all dancing round a fire naked, but I do enjoy that part.

 

[Hard_Rom]

The garden in my backyard was orientated along the cardinal points with representations of the basic elements. Wiccan herb gardens are cool. Easy to build your own stone circle. Takes a bit of time as you have to note where the sunrises on the various special days. Almost a solar calendar.

Make for nice contemplative place to sit and think about shit.

Our days of the week are pagan. Moon's day, Tyr's day, Wodan's day, Thurur's day, Saturnalia day and Sun's day.

Hallow'en is the Celtic pagan new year. Easter is the Saxon Eostre spring fertility day. Christmas is Germanic barbarian Yule. The 12 days of Christmas is based on pagan winter celebrations. Starts 3 days after the winter solstice. This is when it becomes visible to the human eye that indeed the days are getting longer and runs until our New Years day.

 

[pensivepoet]

I'm a suicidal coward
Would you consider sacrificing me?

 

[Hard_Rom]

I'm a suicidal coward
Would you consider sacrificing me?

Only brave, life loving virgins with everything to live for should be sacrificed. Them and criminal wastes of space and air or captured enemies.

 

[SLS69]

Hallow'en is the Celtic pagan new year. Easter is the Saxon Eostre spring fertility day. Christmas is Germanic barbarian Yule. The 12 days of Christmas is based on pagan winter celebrations. Starts 3 days after the winter solstice. This is when it becomes visible to the human eye that indeed the days are getting longer and runs until our New Years day.

It was of course a way of coaxing people into Christianity by keeping celebrations that the masses were used to, re-branding on a global scale!

 

[nerfhearder]

Place seems to be full of stupid people so I'm sure there are lots of Pagans.

 

[nerfhearder]

Actually that wasn't fair. I make a habit of not attacking a persons religious beliefs but it was too easy to pass up. Plus, Pagans. I mean come on. You gave us Christmas trees and the Easter Bunny ( and by extension Cadbury eggs) but what have you done for us lately?

 

[Penuche]

I'm just curious how many other Pagans might be on Lit since celebrating sexuality is so integral to our beliefs and even practices. <snip>

Neither Wiccan (ie Gardnerian or Alexandrian) nor wiccan (umbrella term AFAIK used mainly in the USA for witches of the neoPagan variety, as well as Gardnerians & Alexandrians), just a Pagan, witch, and chaote, for a bit more than half my lifetime so far. Feri - isn't that the tradition Starhawk has worked with?

I had some training with a group, and I do have a working partner but, seeing as he's longterm sick, most of what I do is solitary (apart from the seasonal celebrations) - it'd take far too much of his energy.

BTW welcome to Lit.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Actually that wasn't fair. I make a habit of not attacking a persons religious beliefs but it was too easy to pass up. Plus, Pagans. I mean come on. You gave us Christmas trees and the Easter Bunny ( and by extension Cadbury eggs) but what have you done for us lately?

Everyday of the week.

 

[nerfhearder]

Everyday of the week.

Around the same time as the Christmas tree. Old news.

 

[Hard_Rom]

It was of course a way of coaxing people into Christianity by keeping celebrations that the masses were used to, re-branding on a global scale!

It may have been more an older Roman thing. They glossed over local gods with names of their own gods depending on which attribute they represented. Fairly inclusive of other's beliefs the Romans were. Pretty arrogant about it but did not necessarily put you to death for it. Christianity was a political threat more so. So they earned a gruesome death in the arena.

Early Christians just continued the practice. A 'hearts and minds' campaign.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Around the same time as the Christmas tree. Old news.

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/why-is-christmas-celebrated-on-december-25

The celebration of Christmas spread throughout the Western world over the next several centuries, but many Christians continued to view Epiphany and Easter as more important. Some, including the Puritans of colonial New England, even banned its observance because they viewed its traditions—the offering of gifts and decorating trees, for example—as linked to paganism. In the early days of the United States, celebrating Christmas was considered a British custom and fell out of style following the American Revolution. It wasn’t until 1870 that Christmas became a federal holiday.

So what has Christianity done for us lately? I mean anything good.

 

[nerfhearder]

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/why-is-christmas-celebrated-on-december-25

The celebration of Christmas spread throughout the Western world over the next several centuries, but many Christians continued to view Epiphany and Easter as more important. Some, including the Puritans of colonial New England, even banned its observance because they viewed its traditions—the offering of gifts and decorating trees, for example—as linked to paganism. In the early days of the United States, celebrating Christmas was considered a British custom and fell out of style following the American Revolution. It wasn’t until 1870 that Christmas became a federal holiday.

So what has Christianity done for us lately? I mean anything good.

Chik-Fil-A (or so I hear, I don't eat there).
Hobby Lobby (good place for that kind of stuff. Better than JoAnns and Michaels.)
Westboro Baptist Church (Amsuement value)
Tim Tebow
The list goes on and on.

 

[JohnnySavage]

http://www.venganza.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/he-boiled-for-your-sins-320.jpg

 

[nerfhearder]

http://www.venganza.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/he-boiled-for-your-sins-320.jpg

More wars have been fought over flying spaghetti than anything else.

 

[JohnnySavage]

More wars have been fought over flying spaghetti than anything else.

It's the meaty balls.

 

[nerfhearder]

It's the meaty balls.

I prefer chocolate salty balls.

 

[pensivepoet]

^Getting a little too saucy for me^