Syncretism In My Own Heathenry

A really fantastic post by Snow that provides a ton of food for thought for any of us who venerate deities from more than one cultural group, region, time period, etc. And part of it was sparked by a conversation he and I had the other day, which goes to show how important it is to have these discussions!

“After speaking of the Gods, it is most reasonable to show, in the next place, how we should conduct ourselves towards our country. For, by Jupiter, our country is as it were a certain secondary God, and our first and greatest parent.” (Hierocles, 1822) “Syncretism is well attested as kind of an intercultural transmission between […]

Syncretism In My Own Heathenry

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