{"id":3762,"date":"2012-01-30T15:58:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2012-01-30T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T23:44:59","slug":"market-share-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3762","title":{"rendered":"Market Share of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I was looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacredsource.com\/\">Sacred Source catalog<\/a>\u00a0 and wondered if it could not be treated as a primary source for the extent and type of polytheistic worship in the West \u2014 or at least the Anglosphere? \u2014 today.<\/p>\n<p>They sort their statuettes, etc., into categories, and I have further divided those categories by gender and also into an animal\/other category for non-human representations. I did break their &#8220;Americas&#8221; category in North and Meso-South.<\/p>\n<p>I double-count Great Rite\/conjoined images, and I also count Buddha figures, for although Buddhas are originally human, they are effectively treated by gods by some.<\/p>\n<p>New:\u00a0 2 male,\u00a0 13 female<br \/>\nGoddess\/Pagan: 8 male, 43\u00a0 female, 2 other<br \/>\nCeltic: 6 male, 22 female, 3 other<br \/>\nNorse: 7 male,\u00a0 6 female<br \/>\nGreco-Roman: 19 male, 32 female, 1 other<br \/>\nHindu &amp; Buddhist: 34 male, 30 female<br \/>\nNative American 0 male,\u00a0 5 female<br \/>\nAfrican: 1 male, 3 female<br \/>\nNeolithic: 1 male,\u00a0 3 female<br \/>\nMiddle Eastern: 2 male, 10 female<br \/>\nMeso\/South American: 2 male,\u00a0 6 female<br \/>\nGnostic: 8 male, 15 female<br \/>\nEgyptian: 2 male, 10 female,\u00a0 5 other<\/p>\n<p>As my title indicates, I am assuming that these numbers reflect sales, not theology. Slow-selling figures are dropped, which is why you do not, alas, find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliansociety.org\/\">Emperor Julian<\/a> in the lineup anymore. (I should have bought several!)<\/p>\n<p>What else do they tell us? Comments are open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I was looking at the Sacred Source catalog\u00a0 and wondered if it could not be treated as a primary source for the extent and type of polytheistic worship in the West \u2014 or at least the Anglosphere? \u2014 today. They sort their statuettes, etc., into categories, and I have further divided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,164,5,40],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-capitalism","tag-idolatry","tag-paganism","tag-polytheism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-YG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3994,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3994","url_meta":{"origin":3762,"position":0},"title":"Introduction to Mongolian Shamanism","author":"Chas S. 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