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27 February 2019 12:34![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaon Because i can start describing a Sea Goddess, and what she does and is, but are you really experiencing the divine as I experience the divine if you see the sea as marvellous, or childhood memories, as beaches and sun brollys; she is so completely rooted in this visceral feeling the sea gives me, and if you've never grown up on an island, and seen it as both an infinite and limiting thing; and if you've never almost drowned; and if you've never seen the way the sky stretches above you when you swim, or what it feels like to be in a rip tide
Then you're probably not going to hear or sense the same thing as I do when I say "lady of the sea". Or even like, "her sacred bird is the seagull". I hate seagulls. Have you ever been attacked by a seagull? Have you ever seen a toddler mobbed by them? You're probably not meeting the same entity as I am. The sand is both dirt and glass, filled with little weevils; I don't like ice cream, I don't like fish or chips, I don't like the sun or the taste of salt, thinking about beaches is like thinking about being unhappy or in love or some combination of the two, of being exposed and profoundly alone; I'm always astonished when people get excited about the seaside, romantic or beautiful or a place for holidays or play. I hate the beach and im terrified of the sea, but the divine in nature is the divine that you feel and find, and I have a Lot Of Feelings about the sea.
It's a primary element within my system, in a way that it probably wouldn't or can't be for most people. I was talking on the traditional_witches group about this, because someone said Land/Sea/Sky is very ancient. It's also my primary division, but am I really able to talk on an equal level with say Hades/Zeus/Poseidon, because "goddess of the sea" is - well - a shallow understanding of a single facet, and it doesn't really speak to what I mean by The Sea.
Maybe this is oK? Like this is what I'm thinking, it probably doesn't matter; so long as everyone is finding and revering the infinite in whatever way they find it. but it does shut off the possibility of religious fellows who i can share Syd Barrett vinyls with so
Then you're probably not going to hear or sense the same thing as I do when I say "lady of the sea". Or even like, "her sacred bird is the seagull". I hate seagulls. Have you ever been attacked by a seagull? Have you ever seen a toddler mobbed by them? You're probably not meeting the same entity as I am. The sand is both dirt and glass, filled with little weevils; I don't like ice cream, I don't like fish or chips, I don't like the sun or the taste of salt, thinking about beaches is like thinking about being unhappy or in love or some combination of the two, of being exposed and profoundly alone; I'm always astonished when people get excited about the seaside, romantic or beautiful or a place for holidays or play. I hate the beach and im terrified of the sea, but the divine in nature is the divine that you feel and find, and I have a Lot Of Feelings about the sea.
It's a primary element within my system, in a way that it probably wouldn't or can't be for most people. I was talking on the traditional_witches group about this, because someone said Land/Sea/Sky is very ancient. It's also my primary division, but am I really able to talk on an equal level with say Hades/Zeus/Poseidon, because "goddess of the sea" is - well - a shallow understanding of a single facet, and it doesn't really speak to what I mean by The Sea.
Maybe this is oK? Like this is what I'm thinking, it probably doesn't matter; so long as everyone is finding and revering the infinite in whatever way they find it. but it does shut off the possibility of religious fellows who i can share Syd Barrett vinyls with so
