Talk:Hard polytheism

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[edit] Help Me Out Here

how does it work that a portion of one faith (some Hellenics moving to Platonism and Neoplatonism) causes a complete questioning of an entire term? a large number of Celtic Reconstructionist Pagans, for instance, express hard polytheist sentiments, and are not accepting of a Platonist or Neoplatonist interpretation. i think that section needs some serious revision. Whateley23 20:53, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I have the same problem with this addition, and I also haven't really seen evidence that "the term is beginning to be questioned" or that "many reconstructionists are now Neoplatonists." I'm going to go ahead and remove that bit. - AdelaMae ^{(talk - contribs)} 02:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek religion not a good example

There were a lot of Greeks, and Greek culture covered a long period; it's misleading to say they all thought the gods were distinct and separate. In the Greek magical papyri (which are thought to express popular, rather than obscure beliefs) there are several examples of multiple goddesses being seen as merely aspects of a single great goddess. And in Orphism, Pan and Zeus and Dionysus were seen as aspects of a single being, the Phanes-Protogonos. The Greeks were also quick to adopt foreign gods under the names of domestic deities, e.g. the Ephesian Artemis, or the god of Mendes being described as the Egyptian Pan! I think we need to find a better example of hard polytheism! Fuzzypeg☻ 03:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. The Aztec religion might be a better example of a "purer" hard polytheistic religion, rather the article at it's current stance, which is horrible. The Egyptian religion might be another religion to stay away from in this article. Towards the end the Egyptian religon almost was boderline monetheistic (And the orgin of that concept, pre Abrahamic religion.) & many gods were fused togather or started to, like Isis and Hathor, Amun and Re and so on. Just look the Isis for example! In some cases she was seen as the manfestation fo all gods and goddesses! In fact the Egyptian religion is sometimes named as monolatry, not a good comcept for the support of "hard" polytheism.

Xuchilbara 03:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC)