Do you work with or honor any domestic, local, or personal gods/spirits/spirits in your practice (I.e. spirits who are not major gods/spirits of a popular pantheon)? Describe them.
Somewhat, and it's also my goal to become even more localized in spirit-work once I gain more experience.
As far as local areas, meaning where I live, I focus on the species that live alongside me in totemic practice, and honor both the physical and spiritual components of those species. Plants, animals, etc.
Regarding spirits that are localized elsewhere, there's a group called the Wu Da Xian (5 spirits) found in various places in China. They're not (though correct me if I'm misremembering here, lol) part of any official pantheon, but more as domestic home/village spirits, and personal spirits with mediums. So those count, I think, even though I live nowhere near China.
And personal spirits, I have a lot of those as well. I'm an animist, so I believe that even objects can be alive, so I consider the spirits of many of my tools and figurines to be personal. Obviously I don't control them, they're just there and hanging out. There's also a familiar-like spirit that helps me out a lot too.
Well I worship the Big Thirteen of Olympus, as a group. And then I have my particular patron gods (which I'm still figuring out) within that thirteen. Beyond that, however, I do worship the seven/eight Erotes (number is shaky depending on whether you think there are two gods named Eros or one god with two aspects. Personally I do not like the 'aspects' thing so I say eight), particularly Hermaphroditos.
Ditos is only ever the subject of a story once, and that is in Ovid's Metamorphosis, which contains the rather horrific story of how the son of Hermes and Aphrodite came to be an hermaphrodite.* From so little information, I have had to contact the deity emself to find out more. I feel kind of awkward saying something like that, so I'll just kind of leave it at I contacted em and have been talking with em about what ey is the god of and so forth, and gotten some answers that I find satisfying.
*I choose to use this term instead of 'intersexed' whenever I can feasibly do so, because hermaphrodite is after the deity who is, in my
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Romans have the Lars, who are local spirits and the Penates, the kitchen Gods. The Penates that live in my condo are helpful and fight the roaches that I have. The Lars different from place to place. The Lars of the highways are different than the local road Lars. I do hail them when I take Route 95.
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As far as local areas, meaning where I live, I focus on the species that live alongside me in totemic practice, and honor both the physical and spiritual components of those species. Plants, animals, etc.
Regarding spirits that are localized elsewhere, there's a group called the Wu Da Xian (5 spirits) found in various places in China. They're not (though correct me if I'm misremembering here, lol) part of any official pantheon, but more as domestic home/village spirits, and personal spirits with mediums. So those count, I think, even though I live nowhere near China.
And personal spirits, I have a lot of those as well. I'm an animist, so I believe that even objects can be alive, so I consider the spirits of many of my tools and figurines to be personal. Obviously I don't control them, they're just there and hanging out. There's also a familiar-like spirit that helps me out a lot too.
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Ditos is only ever the subject of a story once, and that is in Ovid's Metamorphosis, which contains the rather horrific story of how the son of Hermes and Aphrodite came to be an hermaphrodite.* From so little information, I have had to contact the deity emself to find out more. I feel kind of awkward saying something like that, so I'll just kind of leave it at I contacted em and have been talking with em about what ey is the god of and so forth, and gotten some answers that I find satisfying.
*I choose to use this term instead of 'intersexed' whenever I can feasibly do so, because hermaphrodite is after the deity who is, in my ( ... )
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