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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm still interested in hearing about the polytheist who feels left out. [/quote]

It's not something the essay writer is "complaining" about, so much as spreading awareness about. It's that she experiences her deities as real, living gods, but the rest of the world sees them as relics of history. If you go to a Wikipedia entry for the Greek Goddess Aphrodite, and it says something like, "Aphrodite [b]was[/b] the Greek goddess of love". Compare that to Radha, a Hindu love goddess, who is still talked about in the present tense and gets worship in temples - that's a privilege, that Hindus get to experience polytheist worship without having to justify it to anyone. Imagine a world where you're the last Hindu in existence and everyone else refers to the Hindu deities as, "those old Vedic deities from India's pagan past," as if they're a nice piece of history but not actually real. That's what a Western Pagan feels, so the essay writer is describing how she doesn't really have a community and how she only sees museums displaying her deities as antiquities, but she wishes she could house those deities in a temple and openly offer them worship.[/quote]
Wow. This is so much more helpful than the person who got all insulty throwing around the word "privilege." Thank you.[/quote]

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