tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579296986984067902.post1950810958210061719..comments2024-03-12T20:49:01.546+11:00Comments on neo polytheist: A Long List of DeitiesM' Sentia Figula (aka Freki)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04898083473029906396noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579296986984067902.post-78086867394652361482015-05-22T16:39:36.068+10:002015-05-22T16:39:36.068+10:00Thank you:) I have seen longer lists than this one...Thank you:) I have seen longer lists than this one online but the list I created is 100% sourced from authors I consider to be reputable. I wanted to create a broad list that I personally could trust (but note that I don't think St Augustine is a reputable author so I have tried to avoid listing Deities which we have only heard of through him). Thus certainly this list is not even close to being exhaustive. I think of it as a point of reference only. I do get really frustrated with scholarly books on Roman polytheism which focus so much on the State religion of ancient Rome and so little on the Gods themselves. The longest list of Deities I was able to find in a scholarly source was only around half as long as this list.M' Sentia Figula (aka Freki)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04898083473029906396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579296986984067902.post-71365537871930497862015-05-19T19:25:28.948+10:002015-05-19T19:25:28.948+10:00Wonderful and useful post (as usual).
I think it...Wonderful and useful post (as usual). <br /><br />I think it's extremely difficult to provide an exhaustive list of Roman Deities. Just consider the roman attitude in reducing any activity, act, phenomenon, status, event, etc. at its elementary and minimal fraction, elementary element and component. This is the base i.e. of the Roman Law but it was transposed to any dimension of life. Even in "religion" any single component of the existence, of the Being, etc. has been reduced, in a rather scientific way, at its minimal essence and in there it has been identified "something Divine". <br /><br />I have even longer lists and Indigitamenta (including also may local Deities - above all Goddesses rather than Gods) strongly connected to the "Science of the Names". I think however that it's more important to perceive and understand this undelying aspect of this TRaditional Spirituality: the capability to perceive the Divine presence (not so easy considering our moder way of life...) and the capability to somehow identify him/her (even more difficult).<br />Pax<br />CarmeloCarmelo Cannarellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03880676822722522314noreply@blogger.com