I am interested in your thoughts on seasons, myths, and honoring the God and ancestors. Harvest, for me, is autumn. How might this, or should this, play into honoring the Gods from different part of the world?
I live in North America, in the northern temperate zone, so where I live, harvest is also in the autumn. I find that being in relationship with the Minoan deities involves keeping multiple layers of seasons in my head and recognizing that the rhythm of those cycles is different in the different places my deities are from. At first it felt awkward, but now it has become an interesting piece of spiritual music, in a manner of speaking. So right now, where I live, Ariadne is just rising up from the Underworld at the beginning of the growing season. But right now in the Mediterranean, she is dying with the grain harvest, returning to the Underworld for the long, dry summer that is the Mediterranean "dead season." The deities don't seem to have a problem with this kind of counterposition, but my experience of my relationship with them is fuller when I'm able to acknowledge the cycles here where I live and also where the deities are from.
A lovely story of harvest.
I am interested in your thoughts on seasons, myths, and honoring the God and ancestors. Harvest, for me, is autumn. How might this, or should this, play into honoring the Gods from different part of the world?
I live in North America, in the northern temperate zone, so where I live, harvest is also in the autumn. I find that being in relationship with the Minoan deities involves keeping multiple layers of seasons in my head and recognizing that the rhythm of those cycles is different in the different places my deities are from. At first it felt awkward, but now it has become an interesting piece of spiritual music, in a manner of speaking. So right now, where I live, Ariadne is just rising up from the Underworld at the beginning of the growing season. But right now in the Mediterranean, she is dying with the grain harvest, returning to the Underworld for the long, dry summer that is the Mediterranean "dead season." The deities don't seem to have a problem with this kind of counterposition, but my experience of my relationship with them is fuller when I'm able to acknowledge the cycles here where I live and also where the deities are from.
I look forward to reading it