{"id":841,"date":"2007-03-24T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2007-03-24T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T18:12:00","slug":"polytheism-not-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Polytheism, not Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keep an eye on the International Year of Polytheism Web project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is really more of a conceptual art piece than any sort of reconstructionism (definitely not reconstructionism or capital-T Tradition<\/a>), although it has been mentioned earlier in the Pagan blogosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, if anyone wants to “wants to overcome the epoch of the monotheistic worldviews (and its derivatives such as ‘The West’ and ‘The Arab World’) through the reconstruction of a polytheistic multiplicity in which countless gods and goddesses will eventually neutralize each other,” I wish them well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keep an eye on the International Year of Polytheism Web project. This is really more of a conceptual art piece than any sort of reconstructionism (definitely not reconstructionism or capital-T Tradition), although it has been mentioned earlier in the Pagan blogosphere. Still, if anyone wants to “wants to overcome the epoch of the monotheistic worldviews […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-polytheism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-dz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7277,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7277","url_meta":{"origin":841,"position":0},"title":"TV Pagans Looking Good \u2013 or at Least Better","author":"Chas S. 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