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   Message 41 of 206   
   David Dalton to David Dalton   
   Re: The deity name game   
   24 Nov 23 18:36:05   
   
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   XPost: alt.religion.druid, alt.religion.wicca, alt.mythology   
   XPost: alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic, alt.atheism   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Apr 4, 2023, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.29DD0DBF0009D0AD70000F9DB38F@88.198.57.247>):   
      
   > There has been some progress in [HCP] (Goddess’s post-popthroughs   
   > update to the main stack healing circle prescriptions working) so far.   
   >   
   > Some things that should now be true in my global region are:   
   >   
   > 1. there should be an intuition of no match to one’s own deity   
   > definition, including in the case when one has no definition   
   > (but no intuition of no match to someone else’s deity definition),   
   >   
   > 2. name grabbing should now be stopped (so for example   
   > a malevolent being who does not match one’s deity   
   > definition can no longer pretend to be the match,   
   > which should help many who have been plagued by voices),   
   >   
   > 3. in cases where there is a match to one’s deity definition   
   > but the deity name rightfully belongs to someone else,   
   > there should be an intuition of that. So for example,   
   > many Wiccans believe that their Goddess and Horned   
   > God are female and male aspects of The All and that   
   > other female deities are female aspects of their   
   > Goddess and other male deities are male aspects   
   > of their Horned God. But many deities were originally   
   > human avatar types and devi types, and there should   
   > now be an intuition of that. (Many deity names were   
   > originally names of my eight main deities, as well.)   
   >   
   > Whaat about my case? Goddess and God are fairly   
   > generic names and have been attached to various   
   > beings over the millennia. Also it seems that Luna   
   > was originally the moon (as was Arianrhod, but   
   > Selene and Diana and Artemis were human). So   
   > anyway, I seem to have valid matches for all of   
   > my eight main deities, who I define on my mystic page.   
      
   The above should now be true, though I now call   
   avatar types ootws or primary ootws, and call   
   devi types mi-ootws, plus some of the other   
   min-ootws have been deified after death as well.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "And if I shed a tear I won’t cage it; I won't fear love;   
   And if I feel a rage I won’t deny it; I won't fear love" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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