/lit/ - Literature

>>15806669

It honestly erchs me that though you claim to be a Resurrector of old and dead gods, you know aboslouty nothing about the society that worshiped them.
you are so utter caught up in the Abrahamic tradition that you literally cannot envision anything outside of its structures, Christians have the bible, Jews the Torah and Muslims the koran. All of which are said to contain the sum total of divine wisdom and to be direct communication from the Divinity were in is expounded all that men need to know to be righteous.

The pagan religions never had anything similar, they had rules and regulations, propheceys and oracals yes but they didnt have a single book which they attributed wholly to the divinity and nor did they declear any single book to have a monopoly on the reality/image of the divine.

Every hamlet,village,town and city had, if not their own unique gods(Abandinus,Ancasta,Andraste,Vinotonus,Setlocenia) and they worshiped them not because they were deserved of worship(as the Abrahmic tradition would have it) but because of the benefit received, they worshipped the streams because they drew their water, the worshipped thunder because it grew their crops, they worshipped their crops because they ate them. The old gods were almost all gods of utility they preformed a function and if they for-filled that function they were worshipped and sacrificed to and if they did not they were punished. Much in way some pray to saints(https://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/on-punishing-the-saints/)) other gods were less utilitarian representing the timeless metaphysical truths, which all men may access such as wisdom, love, filial piety and so on which the gods expressed and above all their patron deity.

To the ancients these gods were mere personifications of these universal truths, with the fancy dross and gloss of rapes, rages and love affairs added later by middling poets and perfidious playwrights (see Cicero on the nature of the gods and Plato's dialogs) which in certain cases may have served an educational purpose( the Venus, mars and Vulcan affair comes to mind as one which teaches that a bimbo will always prefer a fit chad over a no lift salaryman so be careful)

The Iliad was never an anchor for the paganism as the bible it was merely seen as the ideal of greek culture and the greeks had no trouble worshipping gods that were not mentioned in the Iliad or narrating stories in direct contradiction to those set down by Homer, to stray from the idea of personified gods as homer presented was no heresy but a position held by many respectable persons.