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I just find it interesting the ideas that some people come up with. The Human mind is as much an idol as anything else.
Pot, meet kettle.
Other than the number of people who believe roughly as you do, how are your ideas about god any different from those of some obscure animist tribe? Keeping in mind that every adherent to every religion is just as convinced as you that theirs is the right one.
Can you demonstrate that your views of god are not of human origin? How can your beliefs be distinguished from random assertions?
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Pot, meet kettle.
Other than the number of people who believe roughly as you do, how are your ideas about god any different from those of some obscure animist tribe? Keeping in mind that every adherent to every religion st as convinced as you that theirs is the right one.
Can you demonstrate that your views of god are not of human origin? How can your beliefs be distinguished from random assertions?
Mordant while I can appreciate your pov. Let just keep on topic. Vizio believes the mind to be an idol. In this thread that's fine. We are not here to debate the merrits of someone pov on this thread. I just want to hear about people's favorite stories about deities and the like that are not abrahamic religion based and why those people like them.
I'm will to give a lot of leeway (as long as it non abrahamic in origin) here. So let loose folks. But please no matter what. Tell me why you like a diety or story etc..
Thank you for sharing that link. As a resident of British Columbia, I found it edifying to learn more about the Raven mythologies of the various First Nations here. Raven tales and artwork are so much a part of the cultural landscape of this province.
Hands down: Hopi legends and kachinas. Kachinas represent immortal spirits that control nature and human interaction. I've felt connected to Hopi beliefs since I was a small child and given a kachina doll and a book of stories about kachinas.
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Hands down: Hopi legends and kachinas. Kachinas represent immortal spirits that control nature and human interaction. I've felt connected to Hopi beliefs since I was a small child and given a kachina doll and a book of stories about kachinas.
Ah, another at least partial explanation of why I feel a sense of brother/sisterhood with you.
I'm a big fan of Kokopelli, another Hopi god - a trickster, and have collected some art depicting him over the past few years.
A couple of my favourite pieces have come via a wonderful woman I have to come to know a little, who finds Kokopellis (among other wonderful creatures) embedded in stone and frees them via her painstaking work.
Not sure if it qualifies as "deity" but stories surrounding Coyote in some Indigenous American traditions are really good examples of "primitive" psychological analysis.
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