This is typically seen as good versus evil or light against darkness.Īnother understanding of deities is Pantheism, which is the belief that all things are in some way divine. Often such poles of the divine interact harmoniously but there is also dualism of struggle. Yin represents the feminine, shadowy, moist, and soft aspects. Yang represents the masculine, light, dry, and hard pole of the divine. For example, the Chinese represent dualism In Yin- Yang. These deities often represent two poles of nature. there was a shift from polytheism to dualism, monotheism and pantheismĭualism is the understanding of deities that teaches the existence of two coequal sacred beings. This is because women are connected with fertility and seasons of fertility the earth too is an entity of fertility and seasons. The discussion shifts from gods of the sky to gods of the earth- that is mother goddesses. Zeus is one of the most well-known sky gods.
Sky gods are considered to be all seeing and all knowing. Sky gods are universal amongst religions they are used to explain the origin of the universe. There were Sky gods of creation and order, gods of storm and force, and material gods of the earth.
In the Indo- European culture of polytheism there were many diverse devotions and individual deities. This belief system of Deities was common in the early history of religion. It began by talking about Polytheism, which is the belief that there exists more than one god and that the sacred displays itself in many forms. Chapter eight centered its discussion around Deities and concepts of the Divine.
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