worship the random.

[witchscauldron]

1. Would you allow other gods before you or be a jealous god?

Other gods are cool. I'd be fine with my followers also working with other deities, as long as they maintained a level of quality in worship when they were working with me. As soon as they start half-assing it I wouldn't be happy with these other, obviously distracting gods.

2. What bizarre lifestyle requirements would you place on your priesthood?

No strict militant vegetarians or vegans. Mm. Once a month my worshippers should journey into the closest heavily-treed area, with the intent of letting themselves be wild for a day, through shapeshifting. Feeding ravens and crows. Sponsorship and support for endangered/protected species. Knowing the meaning of sacrifice, and doing so on waning crescent nights.

3. What sacrifice would be most pleasing unto you?

REALLY good incense, and lots of it. Leaves floating in clean, flowing water. Feathers. Shiny things, esp. things made by hand with devotion and pleasure. Bondage, flaggelation, sensory deprivation (with purpose, mind you, not "just 'cause"). Things that have meaning to the individual. I want sacrifices to be things that are the right thing from the right person at the right time.

4. How many sacraments would you have, and what would they be?
Hmm. Not sure. Full moons and waning crescents, definetely. Solstices and equinoxes. Rites of passage...whatever and whenever you determine they are, or you need them. Cleansing.

5. How would you smite those who offended thee in thy sight?
A room with no doors, full of mimes. *shudders* Or clowns. Or maybe clowns with spiders. All hideous things there. Or quite possibly to spend eternity run down by my glorious pack of hounds and wolves, or eaten alive each day by ravens only to grow all the flesh back at night...

6. With what other gods would you consort?

Any of them that can deal with my blunt, unvarnished, somewhat-feral self. Vain, vacant, or closed-minded deities need not apply.


7. With what omens would you announce your impending arrival on earth?

I wouldn't come to Earth. I would make my followers come to me - the journey to heed the Calling, and the test as the journey...

8. What animal would symbolically represent you in your scriptures?

Owls, ravens, crows, wolves, or any albino animal - if I had scriptures. I more than likely would not, instead having either an oral tradition of stories and poems, or simply a few poems written about me. Experiential would be a better thing for my worship.

And question 9 sucks, and I'm not even bothering. To bed!
-M.

Comments

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1. Would you allow other gods before you or be a jealous god?

My only stipulation in that regard is that they not use other gods as excuses to do dumb-ass things. Worship whoever ya want, as long as it works for you, betters you, and empowers you. I'd encourage dalliances with other gods, rather than any silly notion that I had all the answers. I'd expect that my worshippers understand that none of them have all the answers either.

2. What bizarre lifestyle requirements would you place on your priesthood?

Priesthood? Hah! I'd insist that everyone be their own priest, their own authority. Personal access to the divine, all the way, folks. I'd expect people to learn respect without abasement. Love without guilt. To learn to find self-respect by being worth one's own self-respect. Oh, yeah... and while I don't see death as a bad thing... killing off things for stupid reasons... causing needless or premature extinctions of life and diversity... man... that would piss me off. The universe already kills stuff, and things already have limited enough time. Let's not add to the approach to entropy any more than we have to, huh?

3. What sacrifice would be most pleasing unto you?

Any act that makes things better, more right, more good, more complete, more beautiful. Any act that makes the worshipper better, wiser, more complete.

4. How many sacraments would you have, and what would they be?

I'd encourage people to make everyday things a sacrament. But maybe something like the pipe ceremony. Something to remind everyone that we all share one breath. Or a fire circle, as a symbol that everything burns with the same spirit, in different forms.

5. How would you smite those who offended thee in thy sight?

Depends. I'd like to leave it open-ended. I think not knowing what to expect, but knowing that I reserve the right to make it creative or brutal would be the most effective. I don't want anyone coming up with stuff that they can go... "Well... I think 'x' would be worth _that_ punishment." Probably a good rule of thumb would be to take away from them whatever they thought was worth pissing me off over.

6. With what other gods would you consort?

Aw hell... lots of em. Probably not any of the ones that teach people to be unworthy scum. But I think the tricksters, to start with.

7. With what omens would you announce your impending arrival on earth?

Impending? Hell... what makes you think I'm not already here? Heh. But seriously folks. I think I'd like it to be a surprise. I'd like people to just expect that I'm probably around already. But I suppose if I were going to give a sign, I suppose I'd have to make steaks out of some sacred cow. Like, maybe I'd turn off everyone's TV, all the radios.

8. What animal would symbolically represent you in your scriptures?

Coyotes, of course.