And let’s be real; The Sea, War, Death, The Seasons, Tornados, Pain, The Sun, Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Inspiration, War, Sex, Science, etc are all STILL things that demand our respect, and that we STILL anthropomorphize in the process of offering that respect.

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…pantheism, would be IMMENSELY improved if we just stopped with the idea that the Gods were the ancients’ version of superheroes and they literally believed in them, and instead recognized them as the linguistic and metaphorical constructs for extremely real forces that they were (and are).

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…those many very powerful forces effect us, and interact, and how those forces to be respected. Not because they primarily and literally thought of War and Inspiration and The Sea as little magic weirdos who hung out together on a mountaintop. I feel like our relationship to the classics, and to…

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…concept. The God wasn’t a *separate character* merely *associated* with the concept. If you said Thanatos, you meant Death. DEATH. The narrative stories about The Gods, their relationships and squabbles and stuff, were a secondary thing. An artform, and a means of negotiating feelings about how…

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…theory that was in vogue for awhile. It’s simply because The Gods were the linguistic and conceptual framework for talking about certain very real things. In most cases, the Gods names WERE just the word for a thing: Death, War, Necessity, Inspiration, etc. The God and the thing were the same…

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