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If they are gods then they are still "little gods". No real power, may be able to get that electronic device going just a little bit longer. I know of a few people who have called on the car god to get their car home. Of course the same result could be achieved by asking the car itself, if you're an animist.

This... is actually kind of scary. I don't know why, it just bugs me. I get the awful feeling these new "gods" would be angry, because of how our society works, especially with all the negativity with dealing with technology.
My thought is, why not have our old gods become patrons for our new technologies? If they relate, then why not? Like Zeus being the god of electrical energy, lightbulbs and whatnot...
Just a thought.

Pest that I am to bring this up, but...isn't a lot of what we perceive the Lord and Lady to be like based on Aradia: Gospel of the Witches? If I remember correctly Hutton said that a lot of thing were based on poems and other fictional writings of those particular time periods.

The White Goddess was an influence too, IIRC. I imagine they were inspired by something, but nevertheless, it does make one wonder.

I'm not saying the Lady isn't there, but perhaps she is rather different to how she is commonly perceived. I mean, if we're talking of the Lady of the Isles, why would she be like an Italian goddess, as in Aradia? We don't know, save Morg, what that goddess is like. Not in any solid, certain way. If we're talking about another Lady, she would be different than the Lady of Wicca, and the same source materials may not apply.

Okay, I don't think that made a great deal of sense. I'm just kinda babbling. Don't mind me.

It's more of a case where many of the aspects that have been assigned to certain Gods/esses were based on how they were described in the literature. Not necessarily saying that the particular God/ess didn't exist before hand, but that how we perceive them is somewhat based on fictional writings



I knew I was forgetting something. sweatdrop

You know, SOME people treat their technology with respect, I don't think they'd be angry

Also: DIBS ON NAMING THE GOD OF VIRTUAL GAMING

I'd think that some of the "gods" would become angry at being discarded in favor of new technology.
I think I mentioned an example of the 3.5" floppy disk....no one uses floppys anymore. Hence, if someone had created a deity around that item, the deity behind that was suddenly jilted and left out in the cold by the evolution of CD-RWs and DVD-Rs.

I agree with Jenny in letting the gods we already have and honor take on the techie front. (drawing from the pantheon I honor; I don't recommend anyone hijacking random gods that they don't usually honor) Thorr is a protector...but why limit that to one's home/frith? Odinn is associated with knowledge and wisdom...and if I'm really trying to dig up something obscure, I ask him (if he doesn't mind, of course) to help me in my search for knowledge. If I'm being cheeky or trying to give someone enough rope to hang themselves with in a discussion, Loki or even Odinn again can enter here.

So most of the time I really don't think it's a matter of "OMG these are new things and hence need new gods to go with them!" but rather it's an issue of the practitioner in question knowing their gods and what their gods can handle/cover.

....No, I didn't.

I would think Odinn to have higher standards than Wiki at any rate xd