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He's a Wiccan, so technically he only has two Gods anyhow, of which all other God/desses are supposedly aspects.
I'd suggest that it isn't that simple, though I can understand how it's easy to come to that conclusion. I'm speaking as an initiated member of Alexandrian craft, which tends to regard itself as distinct from solitary 'Wicca' as expounded in Llewellyn paperbacks. I was taught that the two gods of the craft are specific, named entities, with specific personalities and powers. This is also the opinion of the majority of people I know in Alexandrian and Gardnerian circles. Where invocations call on 'the God' or 'the Goddess', a lot of us argue that this is the same as calling the maiden of Eleusis 'Kore'.
It's arguable that this is a relatively recent trend, as a lot of the literature from Gardner onwards tends towards viewing all the gods as aspect of the divine couple. I'd suggest that this is a modern instance of an age-old trend of hyper-identification of the object of veneration, and doesn't necessarily make totalising claims about the Lord or Lady. The classic example of this is Isis in Apuleius' Golden Ass:
"Behold Lucius I am come, thy weeping and prayers has moved me to succor thee. I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of powers divine, Queen of heaven, the principal of the Gods celestial, the light of the goddesses: at my will the planets of the air, the wholesome winds of the Seas, and the silences of hell be disposed; my name, my divinity is adored throughout all the world in divers manners, in variable customs and in many names, for the Phrygians call me Pessinuntica, the mother of the Gods: the Athenians call me Cecropian Artemis: the Cyprians, Paphian Aphrodite: the Candians, Dictyanna: the Sicilians , Stygian Proserpine: and the Eleusians call me Mother of the Corn. Some call me Juno, others Bellona of the Battles, and still others Hecate. Principally the Ethiopians which dwell in the Orient, and the Egyptians which are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine, and by their proper ceremonies accustomed to worship me, do call me Queen Isis. Behold I am come to take pity of thy fortune and tribulation, behold I am present to favor and aid thee. Leave off thy weeping and lamentation, put away thy sorrow, for behold the healthful day which is ordained by my providence, therefore be ready to attend to my commandment." |
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