My own opinion is that Hestia, the sacred fire, is the source of all life and form that ever live, die, and is reformed for eternity. She is the creative mystery that made possible the many universes, many worlds, many gods, and mortals.
We all participated in her world-soul, while each of us have our own individual and clannish souls, much as the tongues of flame are separated from her fire but still shared some of her nature. The Scythians called her the Queen of Gods. The Greeks and Romans kept her in the center of the Gods and cities and homes. To her do all Gods gives honor and worship, the Alpha and Omega.
I don’t think she is impersonal, but she is much more calm than many Gods in a way that the mothers can be calm and welcoming and pure. She give to each of us our own fire that seeks its own nature, burn away things incongruous with its nature, before we return to our clan-fire before we have our fresh birth (unless our noble deed cause the Gods to raise us).
This was good. I once met a German woman who said her favorite author was Goethe. She said, "He sings to my soul," while clutching her hands near her heart and a big smile on her face.
Shame this is about recent History. Nonnus of Panoplis made the largest conserved poem of the classics age (The dyonisiad) and I'm finding It great to read
Very interkeksting... yeah, I will likely stick to the recent "rebels" of this theme. However might cross over with some of these texts if do an interation on people like Thomas Taylor
"Up the sparks will go/when the embers glow/to the ancient gods aloft we soar.'
My own opinion is that Hestia, the sacred fire, is the source of all life and form that ever live, die, and is reformed for eternity. She is the creative mystery that made possible the many universes, many worlds, many gods, and mortals.
We all participated in her world-soul, while each of us have our own individual and clannish souls, much as the tongues of flame are separated from her fire but still shared some of her nature. The Scythians called her the Queen of Gods. The Greeks and Romans kept her in the center of the Gods and cities and homes. To her do all Gods gives honor and worship, the Alpha and Omega.
I don’t think she is impersonal, but she is much more calm than many Gods in a way that the mothers can be calm and welcoming and pure. She give to each of us our own fire that seeks its own nature, burn away things incongruous with its nature, before we return to our clan-fire before we have our fresh birth (unless our noble deed cause the Gods to raise us).
This was good. I once met a German woman who said her favorite author was Goethe. She said, "He sings to my soul," while clutching her hands near her heart and a big smile on her face.
Shame this is about recent History. Nonnus of Panoplis made the largest conserved poem of the classics age (The dyonisiad) and I'm finding It great to read
Very interkeksting... yeah, I will likely stick to the recent "rebels" of this theme. However might cross over with some of these texts if do an interation on people like Thomas Taylor