Why do you follow your Gods?
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Thread Topic: Why do you follow your Gods?
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Hello! I'd like to hear everyone's reason for following their Gods! This could also be the reason you're religious.
For me, my religion is slightly seperated from the deities I follow, but I still worship them.
The Dagda - The dagda is an Irish patron, and is very connected to the kind of person I wanted to be as a kid. As the god of Druids, he was a natural choice for me to accept his signs, and become a follower of his.
His assistance in my work as both a Druid and a pagan is to help with my confidence in my own intent!
Set - This is a bit of a weird story actually. So shortly after I found my notes for a project I did on Egyptian gods, I feel down a rabbit hole of research, and found out that Set was originally depicted as a positive god, who protected his people and it wasn't until the cult of horus started to villains him that he became to be considered an evil god
(( a mix of being an antagonist in Horus' story and being the god of foreigners in a time of war ))
At around this time, I started to receive signs, after I reached out to work with Set as I felt a connection funnily enough?
Ishtar - So, recently I learned after doing some divination and talking to a friend who works with Aphrodite (( who I believed I'd worked with when I was 11 to 14 )), that what I described did not line up.
And then I realised that everything I was doing to worship ishtar was actually what I'd done for "aphrodite" and that's how I found out I'd been working with ishtar the whole time. Anyway my younger self's incompetence aside.
Ishtar is a comforting presence in my work, who helps me connect more strongly with my beliefs, and be more confident in how I present myself.
Ishtar became my matron Goddess in a time of extreme turmoil, after I'd begun to part ways with my previous matron who I'd worked with since I was 12.
While I am currently possibily dealing with signs from potentially 2 unknown gods, and will update this if I accept, the three gods I work with and worship mean a great deal to me, and I'm forever glad I got the opportunity to work with them
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