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Re: you don't have to!
Sep 24, 2003, 14:56
"Offerings can be made to a place"

Okay, I can understand that and there's no human form involved, no personification. But I don't see much evidence for that being what happened in the past - all cultures personify, it is a basic part of being human.

"You can leave offerings for the pixies that look after a spring or the nymphs that live in it."

This is where my confusion creeps in - pixies and nymphs are human forms, personifications. And if you're leaving offerings to the pixies/nymphs then you're treating them as god(esse)s, to all intents and purposes. That's the crux of my argument (I think!) - that the pixies/nymphs were to their time what the gods were to later times.

"One day one of these 'spirits' gets a name as top-nymph and becomes a god(dess)."

That seems to me a monotheistic way of thought that would hold true only for the process whereby pantheons become monotheisms. Prehistoric people were animists/pantheists. There was no one god/goddess on top of the heap. All were important.
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