Dealing With Deities: How To Manage A Polytheistic Pantheon

We neo-pagans are as eclectic about our gods as we are about everything else. However, there’s more to the nature of most deities than you can find in the average high-school book of myths. This workshop will explore the experience of connecting with different deities, their intrinsic natures, and how to respectfully deal with them. We’ll cover appropriate offerings, offering places, altars, and rituals for a wide variety of gods and goddesses from many cultural pantheons. We’ll also discuss how to communicate with the gods of foreign places without letting too many of our own cultural biases get in the way….and we’ll explore our favorite little-known gods and goddesses as well.

Raven Kaldera is a Northern Tradition shaman, intersex/transgender FTM activist, erotica educator, Ordeal Master, Speaker for the Transgendered Dead, homesteader, diviner, psychic vampire, herbalist, polyamorous parent, and author of many, many books, articles, and short stories. Raven is a builder of bridges between worlds, a crosser of boundaries between communities, a Reweaver of the Web. He is the Dreamer Whose Dreams Come True. ‘Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. www.ravenkaldera.org/

(to see what he’s done in previous years, click here, and you can buy several of these workshops as MP3s on our Shop page)

A prolific author, he has written dozens of books including MythAstrology, Talking to the Spirits, Horn and Banner, Neolithic Shamanism, Earthbound: Pagan Homesteading, Dealing with Deities, Sacred Masque, Moon Phase Astrology, Pagan Astrology, The Northern Shamanic Herbal, Spirals & Shards, Drawing Down the Spirits, Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner, The Giant’s Tarot, Hemaphordeities, The Ethical Psychic Vampire, Wightridden, Wyrdwalkers, The Pathwalker’s Guide to the Nine Worlds, The Jotunbok, Dark Moon Rising, Pagan Polyamory, Welcoming Hera’s Blessing, Urban Primative,… and many more (and those titles are shortened. Please check his website for more information. https://ravenkaldera.org/published-books/

(I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but when the lego figures came up under ‘creative commons’ rights, I couldn’t resist.)

We neo-pagans are as eclectic about our gods as we are about everything else. However, there’s more to the nature of most deities than you can find in the average high-school book of myths. This workshop will explore the experience of connecting with different deities, their intrinsic natures, and how to respectfully deal with them. We’ll cover appropriate offerings, offering places, altars, and rituals for a wide variety of gods and goddesses from many cultural pantheons. We’ll also discuss how to communicate with the gods of foreign places without letting too many of our own cultural biases get in the way….and we’ll explore our favorite little-known gods and goddesses as well.