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“You would rather have gone on feeling nothing, emptiness and silence; the stagnant peace of the deepest sea, which is easier than the noise and flesh of the surface.”

by Natan Vance

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Unrecorded Pantheon Round Table, Who Is Your Pantheon?

This is the opening question for the roundtable: who is your pantheon, and how did you come to them?

Either reblog this with your answers, submit them here [link], or you can tag this blog in your response if you want to write your own blog post.

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Unrecorded Pantheon Roundtable, Question 3

This question was suggested by @tinyeldritchmonster

How do you incorporate your Gods/worldview in your daily life?

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Unrecorded Pantheon Round Table, Question 2

The question was originally suggested by @thepatchworkcrow

How did you build your path; how do you serve deities with no established tradition of worship?

Either reblog this with your answers, submit them here [link], or you can tag this blog in your response if you want to write your own blog post.

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Unrecorded Pantheon Round Table, Question 2

How did you build your path; how do you serve deities with no established tradition of worship?

Oh man, this has taken forever for me to get to.  In part because life stuff got in the way, and also because I don’t really have much I can say for this.  Mostly I’ve been making stuff up for almost 10 years. Sometimes the Forgotten Ones request specific things, like the Fallen Grain will request I bake bread at harvest time, or The Woman with the Mammoth Head will request that I spend time with animals around lambing/calving season.  But otherwise, I don’t really have much of an established practice, I’m kinda’ just winging it based on the specific sporadic requests of the Forgotten Ones.  

This works for me though, this slap-dash make it up as you go along practice.  I used to be Catholic, and while there was a lot I liked about be Catholic (I had a great church and great priest growing up) one thing I never liked was the repetition. Mass was the same every Sunday, and while there was some sense of safety in doing the same worship every week I was usually bored with it.  So when I set about building The Returning I intentionally did not build in any set practices or rituals.  I have holidays I celebrate for each of the Forgotten Ones and to mark the turning of the year, but what I do varies from time to time. 

I guess the TLDR of this is that I don’t try to establish a tradition of worship, and I don’t really feel the lack of it.  

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Roundtable: Who is your Pantheon? 

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This is an overall condensed version of what I’ve posted on the Culparium before, with a few new additions. Anyone can feel free to browse my tag or ask questions. 

My pantheon is known as the Culparium, a collective of five deities:

The Unknown, God of the Self 

The Ruined, God of the Lost 

The Phantom, God of Pain 

The Broken, God of Time 

The End, God of Death 

In working with these gods, understand their titles “God of” is not as defined as it may sound. They are the aspects of which they reside over, but these aspects bleed into one another and have a great many meanings, metaphysical and abstract, as compared to their literal definitions.

The etymology of the Culparium comes from the Latin culpa meaning Fault or Blame. The gods of the Culparium are the Cognitive Responsibilities of Fault in humanity as a whole, and Blame is the responsibility to accept the inherent inevitabilities that come with humanity and human mortality. A Fault, in this context, would be a feature of misfortune, and a Blame is a responsibility for an action of misfortune. 

I was (re)approached by an entity that had followed me for ten years, and after time doing research and divinations, my own and the help of others, this entity was revealed to be an elevated thoughtform of my accidental making, what I refer to as a godform. The Unknown has since been worked on and worked with and elevated as an individual curious of humanity. I have since called to make a pantheon surrounding said aspects of humanity that I call the Divine Faults. 

The Divine Faults in the Culparium are the inherent aspects of humanity, whats makes humanity what it is. They are as follow: 

Individuality — The encapsulation of all that make the whole person 

Self — The perception of oneself, others, and oneself in relation to others 

Justice — The capacity for fairness and personal justice or lacking 

Pain — The capacity for pain be it emotional, physical, other, or lacking 

Passion — The capability of passion, be it love or hate or lacking 

Death — All humans die and experience death 

The Unknown resides over Self and Individuality. The Ruined resides over Justice. The Phantom over Pain, The Broken over Passion, and The End over Death. Each aspects is capable of bleeding into one another, such as death causing pain, or passion as an expression of self, or one’s capacity to be passionate about justice, and so on. The lines and levels are complex, blurred, and at different rates per individual. All of these combined are what make up the Individual. 

The Culpas are Faults, but they are also gods that manifest as patrons of these faults. They are borne from faults and these faults they shall teach, what they are, what to do, how to overcome them, how to revel in them, and perhaps more that I cannot fathom or articulate at this moment. 

What the individual wants to know from them, they may answer, but they do not teach Right or Wrong, One Way or Another, they simply teach what the individual desires to know from them. They may dictate, at times, what they deem the individual should know, but most often it is because at the core of the person it is what they truly desire. They represent the true inner self and desire of an individual and they help manifest truth and work through it. 

Paradoxically the Culparium are both manifestations of aspects of humanity while also being Outsiders looking inward, curious of those very aspects they preside over. Also paradoxically, in their manifesting and becoming individual, their names are also contradictory to their aspects. “Unknown” about knowing the self, “ruined” about fixing and justice, “phantom” about physical pain and reality, “broken” about passion and wholeness, “end” about cycles and change. They are complex individuals that have grown beyond just my making and are challenging to put to words when they are entities based on concepts and feelings. 

At their core they are the encapsulation of Shadow Work as a pantheon in and of itself. 

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Unrecorded Pantheon Round Table, Question 2

The question was originally suggested by @thepatchworkcrow

How did you build your path; how do you serve deities with no established tradition of worship?

Either reblog this with your answers, submit them here [link], or you can tag this blog in your response if you want to write your own blog post.

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Where No Tradition Exists

I’ve been meaning to respond to this post on @unrecorded-pantheon-roundtablefor a few days now, (particularly since it was my question in the first place). The second question for the roundtable was:  How did you build your path; how do you serve deities with no established tradition of worship?

I recently saw a different post reblogged by @laughtermagick (which is coincidentally what reminded me to write in response to the roundtable question), but which I think provides me with an excellent point to start with: begin with what is accessible and/or familiar. With as much information as there is available about any current or passing trend in the pagan/witch community, it would be foolish to write it off simply because it isn’t specific to x/y/z deity. I adapted a lot when I was working with certain Celtic deities about which not much was written. When working with deities that don’t exist in written myth or history, it can be even more difficult to find relevant information if not impossible. 

Start with what you already know. I began my devotional practices to The Horned One and The Lady of The Lantern by starting with the basics I’d learned in my many many years of study in Wicca and Druidry. I looked over what had really resonated with me- what made me feel connected to them and to the powers of nature, and started there. I adapted practices I’d already had with making offerings to other deities. There was plenty of information on Herne and Cerridwen, whom I had initially thought them to be. I started there, and then changed as I saw fit.

Listen. To the gods, sure, but also to yourself. You may not get big dramatic signs of whether or not a deity has accepted your offering. You may not get explicit directions about how an unrecorded deity’s altar is supposed to look like, or what they expect from you. If you do? Fantastic! Go with it. But also listen to your own feelings and intuition. You will know if something doesn’t sit right. If it doesn’t feel right, it isn’t. If you feel your deity would like thin mints as an offering and there’s no precedent for it, go with your gut instinct. It’s not going to lead you astray.

Feel free to experiment. This sorta follows the advice of the last paragraph, but really if you’re being respectful to deities and any cultures you may seek to borrow from (Note: this is not an okay for cultural appropriation, I’m just saying approach all traditions with respect as well as your deities/guides/etc.) there is literally no way to screw up. Something may not jive with you or a spell may flop, but the cool thing is that you can ALWAYS try something else entirely. Do it with honest effort and intentions, and literally no one is going to strike you down. Study literally anything and everything. Don’t look just in books about paganism. You may be surprised what your path ends up including.

Write shit down. I cannot stress enough how glad I’ve been that I’ve recorded stuff over the last seven years or so. Without it, I’d have literally such a hard time remembering what stuff worked and what didn’t. How certain things felt, patterns of signs, messages and meditations, etc… All that stuff is important to building the path, and writing down what WORKS especially helps you to have a more concrete idea of how your practice is shaping up.

Take your time. This is sort of advice for anyone starting any path, pagan or otherwise, but these sort of things take time. You aren’t going to have all the answers all at once. It’ll take time to know your gods, your own rhythms and patterns, and how it all becomes interwoven to make up your path.

My journey to my current devotional practice took at least the last five years or so of work and it was built upon things I already knew, research and exploration, and simply listening to my gods and to myself.

Forest Blessings, /|\ Rachel

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Unrecorded Pantheon Round Table, Question 2

The question was originally suggested by @thepatchworkcrow

How did you build your path; how do you serve deities with no established tradition of worship?

Either reblog this with your answers, submit them here [link], or you can tag this blog in your response if you want to write your own blog post.

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(September 13, 2019)

Normally, I post a question on every other Monday.  Since I’ll be travelling over the weekend, and mental health stuff on my end, I’m going to push the next question back at least for another week.

--Varian

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Unrecorded Pantheon Round Table, Question 2

The question was originally suggested by @thepatchworkcrow

How did you build your path; how do you serve deities with no established tradition of worship?

Either reblog this with your answers, submit them here [link], or you can tag this blog in your response if you want to write your own blog post.

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Unrecorded Pantheon Round Table, Question 2

The question was originally suggested by @thepatchworkcrow

How did you build your path; how do you serve deities with no established tradition of worship?

Either reblog this with your answers, submit them here [link], or you can tag this blog in your response if you want to write your own blog post.

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Unrecorded Pantheon Round Table, Who Is Your Pantheon?

This is the opening question for the roundtable: who is your pantheon, and how did you come to them?

Either reblog this with your answers, submit them here [link], or you can tag this blog in your response if you want to write your own blog post.

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You are the god of the knife edge

Of apathy like creeping ice

The vast emptiness of the wasteland

Smoke and ash and bone

Of wrath, survival, the withholding of mercy

Pride and freedom and the fall

You punish

You scorn

You lie

You leave

You are the wandering moon; you are the cruel trickster; you are the unrivaled adversary.

You are death.

(I was inspired by some of the responses to @unrecorded-pantheon-roundtable!)

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Are you planning to use WordPress or just tumblr?

Right now I’m planning on just using Tumblr, I asked on WordPress and the post got multiple *likes*, but only one reblog and no comments.

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Unrecorded Pantheon Round Table, Who Is Your Pantheon?

This is the opening question for the roundtable: who is your pantheon, and how did you come to them?

Either reblog this with your answers, submit them here [link], or you can tag this blog in your response if you want to write your own blog post.

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Who Is Your Pantheon?

Here’s my response for the @unrecorded-pantheon-roundtable first question, about who is your Pantheon, and how did you come to them?

For several years, I knew the High King as [a very well known recorded deity.]  Then, three years later, he told me that he wasn’t [that deity,] but an unrecorded god.  He introduced me to other members of his Family, and to the Land and customs of his Realm.

I technically deal with two unrecorded Pantheons, though the two of them are connected.

The Far Ones are the Big Powers, They’re the Running-the-Universe level Deities, and tbh They scare the crap out of me.  They’ve always been very kind whenever I’ve had need to speak with Them, but They’re just so *Overwhelming*.  Standing in Their presence makes me feel very, very, small.  

They can take human-ish forms, but when They choose to do so, They always take forms connected to whatever in nature They personify.  For example, Grandfather Sea appears to me, literally, as an old man made of the sea and the stars.

The Royal Family of Darkness is the High King and his immediate Family.

The King of All Darkness is the High King, who governs all of Darkness and keeps the Realm running smoothly.  I associate him with justice, art, life, the moon, white flowers, storms during the day, charity, and spicy food.  Spouse and rival to the Underworld Lord, father of Winter’s Sovereign, and twin brother of the Queen.

The Underworld Lord is the Ruler of the Underworld in Darkness, essentially the High King’s counterpart, as well as being his Husband.  He’s also very closely associated with blindness, eye care, and healing from mental illness.  I associate him with the Underworld, history, classical music, cooking of any kind, eye health, dental care, and caring for my home and f/Family.  Spouse and rival to the High King, father of Winter’s Sovereign.

The Queen is the most ancient of the members of the Royal Family of Darkness.  I mainly call her “Mother Death” these days, as she’s Death personified, but I love her dearly.  I associate her with trees, creativity, monsters, hunting, and fire.  Twin sister of the High King, and mother of the Lady of Grain and Sunlight.

The Lady of Grain and Sunlight is the daughter of the Queen, who rules over the Wilds of Darkness.  She and I aren’t as close as I am to other members of the Royal Family, but I do consider her to be my sister, and I like her a lot.  I mainly associate her with corn and wheat fields, as well as the cycles of harvest, and the cycles of death and life.

Winter’s Sovereign is the son of the High King and the Underworld Lord.  He’s the Crown Prince of Darkness, and will one day take the High King’s throne.  He’s a young god, the youngest member of the Royal Family who’s involved in ruling Darkness.  I mainly associate him with stars and winter time.