This is where things get a little tricky.. the subject of the great Divine is one every person has. Who or what is the divine? Is it male is it female? This next part of the series is all about the Gods and Goddesses who make up our world as we know it.
Many Pagans myself included come to our paths calling our Deities (Higher power) Lord and Lady. The Lady is mother Earth and the triple- faced moon. We see earth as a mother, a provider. As a Moon Goddess she is the Maiden, waxing moon-she is the blushing bride, she is the warrior. She is Potential.
The Full Moon is a Mother aspect, the whole roundness of the moon represents a full term belly about to bring forth new life. This is the fulfillment aspect. The Waning moon is the Crone, the wise old woman. She takes and diminishes. She represents wisdom and death .
The Dark moon is commonly left out but we should really take time and be thankful for its help to balance us. Many leave it out because of the “darkness” but without dark there is no light and vs versa. We all must have an equal balance. This particular one represents the destroyer. But isn’t part pf destruction new growth?
The God, The Lord, the Ladys other half, is usually forgotten in many of these. As consort to the Earth, He is Father Sky, or the Sun. But when Goddess leaves earth to become a moon Goddess, so the God leaves the sky to her and becomes an Earth God- The Green Man, God of Plants, The Horned one, and the Lord of the Underworld, Ruler of the Tomb/womb.
It is the God of Plants that we honor at Ostara, as the first green haze on the trees. And He is the one we honor with beer and bread at the Festival of Grain, Lughnassadh. The Horned One is the God of the Wild. He is the bear that attacks in the woods, He is our own homicidal rages, He is our most Passionate lusts. He is the one who gives us the empowerment that we act on to protect our loved ones. His spirit lives within each meat we eat, each cow, each chicken etc.. Look in their eyes and see him.
And in the Underworld, The Green God, The Horned and Sun God merge into one aspect: The king of the dead. He gives renewed youth, rest, reunion with those who have gone before.
Now the fun time : HomeWork
For this lesson we are on a look of who are deity(S) are. So ask your self this what characteristic do you feel most would represent a Goddess and God? An idea is to look through the Encyclopedia Mythica and look up pantheon of your chosen culture. Look through them, listen to their stories..then we play match up. With the list of traits you wrote down ^^ do any of these match up the pantheons you read?
