Unnamed Deities
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dreamwidth_pagansWhat do you do when the deity (or deities) you are being called to worship or are drawn to are not from any pantheon known (or at least not known by all but the most obscure book or sliver of text)? Or similarly, what of if you have found their image but their name has been lost or have been simply dubbed something by anthropologists?
I am having some trouble with the goddesses I follow. They do not seem to be of any known pantheon at all. I looked and looked but I have still yet to find anything outside my own experiences with them. They are three goddesses of the ocean. One is the goddess of the open ocean whose sacred animals are sharks and whales, another goddess is of the shore and shallows whose sacred animals are clams and crabs, and the last goddess is one of the deep sea whose scared animals are squid and octopi. I’ve been slowly building a practice around the ocean goddesses yet I am still mystified as not finding them in any historical text or known pantheon. I’m not fully sure how to properly work for them or even address them, other than continue to piece together what they wish to be done and now and what they wish to be called. What would you do in the above situation or in a general sense of the original questions? Less anyone has a guess about where these goddeses might have originated?
I am having some trouble with the goddesses I follow. They do not seem to be of any known pantheon at all. I looked and looked but I have still yet to find anything outside my own experiences with them. They are three goddesses of the ocean. One is the goddess of the open ocean whose sacred animals are sharks and whales, another goddess is of the shore and shallows whose sacred animals are clams and crabs, and the last goddess is one of the deep sea whose scared animals are squid and octopi. I’ve been slowly building a practice around the ocean goddesses yet I am still mystified as not finding them in any historical text or known pantheon. I’m not fully sure how to properly work for them or even address them, other than continue to piece together what they wish to be done and now and what they wish to be called. What would you do in the above situation or in a general sense of the original questions? Less anyone has a guess about where these goddeses might have originated?
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Date: 2011-10-06 02:46 am (UTC)Since s/he only has a paragraph in a grimoire to that describes her/him self, I've turned to another source of information. Science. Since I'm working with the spirit of the ocean, I figured it made sense to incorporate scientific info into my spiritwork and worship.
Example: Life began in the oceans according to science, so I now worship the ocean as the Mother/Father of all life on earth.
So I would suggest researching your goddesses' sacred animals, the shore, and the deep sea. As for working for them, they might appreciate spiritwork that advocate protecting their realms and animals. Like activism to ban sharkfin soup for one. On a personal note, I've taken up scuba diving, so I can feel closer to the ocean and explore her watery depths.
I've also incorporated things into my worship, from what I can tell by communing with my deities, might as well try asking your goddesses, what would like to be called. Like, give them a title, and see if they giving an approving feeling or not.
Feel free to shoot me a pm or comment, if you want to discuss this further.