@satyrgod:
"I agree that expressing this concept in this way is a simplified model of a greater philosophy. The concept is that if a given archetype is worshipped as god/dess, s/he is the same force or archetype that has always been worshipped, just by another name. Why can't Gaea be Jord be Danu be Don? What about Freyja? Or Frigga, Hera or Shiva? And why not Jupitor, Zeus, Odin, Wotan? The masculine gods are the other side of the coin from their feminine goddesses.
Ultimately, it's all about perspective. How better to relate to a being that is all-encompassing than to ascribe to it familiar characteristics, such as gender and our own ethnic features? Humankind was not created in god's image; our concept of god was created in our own."
you are thinking of them as cosmic forces instead of cosmic beings gods are just people from higher realms plus the universe acts as if apposing wills are affecting it not just one
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