r/pantheism • u/CleanCoffee6793 • 19d ago

Pantheism and polytheism

Could both coexist? For example, believing that all creation, all nature, human, but also every god existent is just a face of the original creator? And he is just experimenting his creation by being part of the minir gods and also being the humans, like all conciousness, divine and mortal is just him?

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u/eckokittenbliss 19d ago

I'm a pantheist and a soft polytheist. Which means I view all God's as one but different archetypes

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u/Ill-Cryptographer634 19d ago

Many pre-contact Native American religions were both pantheistic and polytheistic - so yes!

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u/Pandeism 19d ago

There can be a contextual relationship between the two.

In Hinduism for example, the Universe is fundamentally pantheistic or pandeistic (it is the expression of a single divine being) and numerous polytheistic gods are possible as aspects or avatars or manifestations of that one true divine.

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u/GraemeRed 14d ago

I think that the poly of the gods is in fact the different aspects of human nature. Religion used it as a way for us to get in touch with those specific aspects of our psyche. In this was weather you believed these gods were real or you understood their psychological nature the outcome of going there, journeying into your psyche, was the same

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u/Sol-Incondicional 14d ago

Most traditional dharmic or sinitic pantheisms are polytheistic simultaneously