I consider my paganism to definitely be eclectic. I don’t follow any one particular god or goddess nor do I follow one particular tradition. I look at all that’s out there and take the ones that speak to me, represent me, or provide a direction that I want to follow and incorporate it into my own personal practice.
At the end of the day, what I do is to live Nietzsche’s dictum that religion should ultimately be life-enhancing.
One of the Goddesses that speaks very deeply and directly to me is Inanna, the Sumerian Goddess of love and war and the first Goddess to establish a practice of sacred sexuality as part of her worship.
I found her as part of my pagan awakening in that most wonderful of pagan cities, San Francisco. I found her as the path of pagan and sexual awakening was began for me. One of my most treasured possessions still is a book of hymns to Inanna and myths about her (Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
My wife talks about how she dedicated herself to Dionysios at age 14. For myself, I dedicated myself to Inanna at age 30 and have been all the better for it. There’s something to be said for making love AND war!
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18 June 2009 at 9:49 am
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