"Sane Polytheism" has a nice callback to Fortune's "Sane Occultism".
Having a place with sane, mannered folks to talk about this kind of stuff has been wonderful, and it might be nice to have a space that is specifically polytheistically religious (rather than magical/occultist, as in MM), so that might very well be a useful thing to have around.
The only concern that comes to mind is the trade-off between "a broad topic is useful to more people" and "a narrow topic is more exciting and useful to the fewer folks it interests". You're certainly right that you need a critical mass to have something viable, and polytheism is already pretty niche, so maybe "broader" is the way to go, and if enough folks show up interested mainly in the Germanic flavor of polytheism, we can set up a sub-group or the like.
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Date: 2022-02-14 06:18 am (UTC)Having a place with sane, mannered folks to talk about this kind of stuff has been wonderful, and it might be nice to have a space that is specifically polytheistically religious (rather than magical/occultist, as in MM), so that might very well be a useful thing to have around.
The only concern that comes to mind is the trade-off between "a broad topic is useful to more people" and "a narrow topic is more exciting and useful to the fewer folks it interests". You're certainly right that you need a critical mass to have something viable, and polytheism is already pretty niche, so maybe "broader" is the way to go, and if enough folks show up interested mainly in the Germanic flavor of polytheism, we can set up a sub-group or the like.