Your God, My God, Who's God

[watershield]

I was recently reading a thread on the net that was going on about Worshiping the "Gods of Britain". While it really makes little difference what God you call God, she was talking about her connection with her Gods and her heritage / ancestral connections. I happen to know she's Chinese and she was posting about Celtic Gods so I was a tad confused.

It raised the question in my mind...do you know your ancestry and who the Gods of your distant heritage are?

[Jen]

I come from Celtic stock but I don't pay the Gods/Goddesses much attention as individual deities, though I have studied Celtic G and G's and traditions more than any other.
I can appreciate that they all have their own qualities but my attention is given to the universal power rather than separate parts of it.

[PaganOne]

I'm Welsh, Scottish, Irish, German, and Jew. I guess I can take my pick.

I'm Atheist, so I have no gods.

[Butterfly]

Dec 7, 2009 20:38:35 GMT 1 watershield said:

It raised the question in my mind...do you know your ancestry and who the Gods of your distant heritage are?

My family are Hindu, so I know about my ancestry and the gods/goddesses of my distant heritage...

[thegavv]

I'm German, Italian, Scottish, Irish, English and Native American. But I was never brought up in a "cultural" household like some were. We just were who we were with no, "it's traditional to do this or that".

I follow the Norse pantheon because I connected with them as a kid without even knowing it. When I grew up (metaphorically speaking), I knew why I had connected with them and began to actively worship them, unbeknownst to my family, thank the gods.

I know my heritage insofar as knowing where my ancestors came from. But even though it would make more cultural sense to follow the Celtic deities, I follow the Norse ones. Is it odd? Perhaps. But that's how it feels right to me.

If any of the made sense to anyone, cheers to you!

[WulfcwenStar]

I am English, Celtic ( Scottish and Irish, Eire to be exact) Spanish and French with Norman thrown into the mix
My pantheon is Anglo-Saxon and Celtic. I always had a thing about Thor as a child he appealed to me and I had a thing about white horses they were always cropping up in books, in fields and even in dreams. It took me years to realise the Goddess Epona was attached to white ponies or horses.
So Woden, Thunar, Cerrnunos are the Gods I link to
Erce, Epona, Frigga are the Goddesses I link to
There are others but all are Celtic in origin or Anglo-Saxon/Norse as many were adopted by the Anglo-Saxons from the Norse pantheon or at least I think I am right in saying that.

My Gt Grandfather ( he was from Eire at the time of the Great Irish Potato famine) believed in the Little People and would always put some milk out for them. He taught my Mother that as well.

My family is old and thin on the ground now, Mother was born in 1918, Father in 1906, me in 1953. I was told the family history and the stories of the old Gods that were worshipped. Mother was Roman Catholic but she still believed in the Little People.
Father was Church of England and became a Witch later in life his Mother was a Witch. So I know a fair bit about the family I come from and still learning about them from my half sister (Dad's daughter) who is now 84 years of age.
Ancestory is interesting stuff.

[watershield]

That's the kind of history you need to write down so it's never lost.
I can trace my blood line to Paris in the 1600's on my mother's side and to Wales in the 1700's on my Father's side. But I know nothing of the people.

[WulfcwenStar]

I know loads about the people and the family many years ago traced the family tree back to the Norman Conquest when they came over in 1066. That was my Mothers family tree. She and my Father saw it and were amazed at the unbroken line back to then. The family member who owned it had it stored away but when he died no one was told where it was. It is probably locked up in some bank somewhere.I have tried tracing the family tree but come to a full stop as it costs money to get things.
I can write down what I know about the families and various people but cannot back it up with dates. We have people in the family that were real charcters and even one who emigrated to Australia and married a cousin of Ned Kelly, trust a Quinn to get mixed up with them LOL.
On my Fathers side there are people who did all sorts of things and one married a servant girl from the household who he fell in love with and was cut off from the family. He ended up working as a grave digger and the stories about him are funny.

[cunimalaeficus]

There were Temples to the Arcadian Gods, and to the Egyptian Gods in what is now London, long before the Celts started to settle here in about 500 BC. There were Temples dedicated to Apollo, Artemis, Isis, Anubis/Thoth, and the old Egyptian Helios, alongside numerous local Animistic Demigods. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that rather than the accepted view, (That London grew up around a navigable trading centre) it was originally built up around the various Temples on the banks of the Thames. (Or Thameisis)
The oldest of these seems to be the Temple of Apollo where the Tower of London stands today, and even before the pre-Celtic Levant diaspora, Tower Hill was dedicated to a pre Apollonian, more indigenous Sun King tradition. There is evidence that suggests that refugees from Ilium/Troy, fleeing the Hellenic Atreides pogrom settled here, and brought their Arcadian tradition (Rather than the Olympian centered Hellenic tradition of Agamemnon's conquering Armies)
The place names and Tribal names (As recorded by the Roman influx of around 60 AD) give plenty of clues that suggest this, for example the 'Trinovantae' tribe of ancient Britons, translates as 'New Trojans' in the records.

[watershield]

Interesting. Do you have any reference material that I might link to to read further?

[thegavv]

I agree with watershield. I'd like to know more about the history of the British isles.

[WulfcwenStar]

Our history is complex not sure what books to suggest maybe some others who are mor scholarly could do that in the mean time this site offers timelines about the history of the british isles

://www.great-britain.co.uk/history/history.htm

[watershield]

Well, more specifically, the above post refers to Egyptian settlements or at least temples in what is now London but provides no citation. I was hoping to get a bit on that.

[WulfcwenStar]

try this site

www.johnchaple.co.uk/temples.html

or this one

www.suite101.com/content/the-pagan-temples-of-roman-london-a188817

[watershield]

Both of those really only speak the possibility of Roman temples rather than Egyption.
The on e reference to Isis is also covered by a comment that the Romans worshiped Isis so such an iscription is not uncommon.

It makes sense to me in a way, that Egyption forms of culture and religion should be seen in the UK. I have read that it is believed that the Pharos of old were survivors from Atlantis. Weather they came at the time of the flood or as earlier seattlers who's to say.
But looking at Google Earth, you can see a formation on the ocean bottom which matches the reported shape of the island nation of Atlantis. If this was Atlantis and survivors did make it to boats, the British Isles are a reasonable "first land" location.

Might also give some clues to the source of the Green Man