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AnonProphet: wow, that's very, very scary. Interesting to me because, while i wouldn't really say i believe in gods (i regard them as very important cultural/psychological archetypes, that sometimes, in certain states of mind, it can be positive to "worship", be "possessed" by, etc, but not so much as "out-there" entities that exist independently of humanity and/or other sentient species - i guess that makes me somewhere between atheist and pantheist), the "god-form" or Archetype i feel most strongly attracted to and inspired by is definitely Kali (and her equivalents or near-equivalents in other pantheons), and i have always had a hate-and-fear relationship, in both directions, with dogs...
I'm OK-ish with them now, if i know and trust their "owners" (tho i really don't like the idea of humans "owning" animals), tho still extremely wary of dogs i don't know, but as a child i was petrified of them to the extent that i literally couldn't walk down a street if i saw a dog at the other end of it, and the sound of a dog barking in particular put me into a state of abject terror approaching catatonia. Dogs, i'm sure, picked up on this, and very often seemed to bark at me, growl at me or strain on their lead to try to chase me (which still happens occasionally). (Oddly, my aunt's dog was the only dog this never applied to, and i always got on fine with her all the way through my childhood.)
So, maybe there is something to do with the Kali archetype and dogs... i wonder if it is something to do with the obedience of dogs, their lack of self-interest, their what Nietzsche might call "slave morality", as i kind of see one aspect of the Kali aspect as representing the destruction of that kind of false consciousness in humanity... also, bringing those kind of anarchist/libertarian ideas and eco-feminism together, i can't help seeing the domestication and physical and mental distortion thru selective breeding of the dog as symbolic both of the domination/distortion of woman by man, non-white by white humans, etc, as well as that of Nature as a whole by industrialist/imperialist Civilisation... so dogs kind of represent, or are the creations of, the aspects of humanity that Kali has, to put it mildly, major problems with?
(all guesswork here, of course, and no intent to insult dog lovers!)
Quantum: "Perhaps it is because Sedna lost her fingers that she likes to have her hair combed and braided by someone else"
Now that's really interesting... a disabled goddess... Does anyone know of any other gods who have "physical" (in quotes cos, well, gods aren't really physical as such, but you know what i mean) impairments, and in particular ones which they require humans to give them assistance with? |
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