Aine Llewellyn - Dalliances with Deities - Reflections of a Devotional Polytheist

Aine Llewellyn - Dalliances with Deities | Reflections of a Devotional Polytheist

Moving Forward

May 20, 2014 By Aine

This will be my last post at this blog and at the Patheos Pagan Channel. The Pagan Channel offered me a great opportunity to have my voice heard when I first started blogging, and blogging so publicly helped me understand my own role in the Otherfaith and how I would need to shape our developing religion. It’s time I moved on, however. I no longer feel Patheos Pagan provides what I need, and so I will be shifting all my… Read more

Basics: the Clarene (Relationships)

May 14, 2014 By Aine

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When it comes to the Ophelia, the Clarene is a mess. Read more

Basics: the Clarene (Values)

May 10, 2014 By Aine

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Violence may bring us back into alignment when we have fallen out, but for the People, it is hardly the first option. Read more

Happy 5th Anniversary

May 6, 2014 By Aine

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Blogging here has encouraged me to become more professional and polished. It’s made me think about what I’m writing about and how to write about it, how to convey what the gods want me to say. Read more

Basics: the Clarene (Mundane)

April 29, 2014 By Aine

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We’re focusing on mundane practices that are associated with the Clarene. We can, of course, make these devotional acts if we dedicate them to her, and she may well instruct us to learn some of her crafts so we may serve her better. Perhaps we simply enjoy doing them, however, and can give our joy to the gods. Read more

Aletheia & Redemptive Violence

April 21, 2014 By Aine

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Violence certainly holds redemption, but that violence can just as easily become nothing more than revenge. Read more

Basics: the Clarene (Worship)

April 16, 2014 By Aine

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Today’s prompt focuses on how the god’s worship has changed in modern times – but the Clarene is a modern god, so it’s begun in modern times! So, instead, I will focus on what her worship looks like now and what it might look like in the future. Read more

Basics: the Clarene (Social Issues)

April 14, 2014 By Aine

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For the next few weeks, we’ll be delving into the 30 Days of Devotion, a devotional writing project that helps us explore the gods we worship. We will do each of these for each of the Four Gods. If you are an Other Person or exploring the Four Gods, feel free to add your own comments – or join in! If you have another topic you would like to see written on, you can email me (aine@daoineile.com) or message me… Read more

Basics: the Clarene (Places)

April 8, 2014 By Aine

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I’ve mentioned before that the Clarene is a god of tending the earth, not the land itself, and so she’s not ‘in everything around us’. Her daughter/son/child the Laetha is the West itself, and so we can say that the Laetha is in everything under our feet, but the matter is still more complex than that. There are, however, places where the Clarene does surround us. Read more

Basics: the Clarene (Holy Days)

April 5, 2014 By Aine

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We actually don’t know many of the Clarene’s holy days at this time, due to the new nature of the Otherfaith. We know more of the Laetha and Dierne’s holidays, and this year is being spent in contemplation of the Clarene and Ophelia’s days. Read more