We don’t have many written philosophical pieces from the ages when pagans worshipped solar deities, so I am mostly inferring from what I have read from ancient poems and legal texts. In general, don’t take this as an academic paper, it’s just a blog post.
Since the collapse of Western civilisation in 2020 and the bank runs have begun, people are looking for a new organising force to unite humanity. Hopefully, whatever god the EU and the UN worship will die soon enough. I digress.
So worshipping a solar deity or a storm deity, which is the right god for you?
As a celt, the role of a solar deity unites a man's consciousness with the earth. This is represented in our poems about when the first men came to Ireland and married the sovereignty goddess, Eiru. The Bellbreaker cultures across Europe all had similar rituals regarding the local chieftain marrying with the land.
Our local laws and customs reflected this. The Brehon laws all revolved around property rights. Nothing in the early writings suggested that people were obsessed with abstract notions such as society or the state. Only things that exist in physical reality are real.
From a feeling perspective, I associate this with listening to my body and doing what it needs.
I’m not arsed looking up the exact geographical details, but you’ll get what I mean. It looks like Europe faced a catastrophic climate event. The solar deities were clearly not working, so people began to worship storm gods like Thor and Zeus.
Storm gods stand for justice and protection. By offering protection to people, they earn the right to rule the land. This was crystallised by Jupiter's Rome still being the idealised vision of civilization. Storm gods also had more writing and more centralised laws.
From a feeling perspective, a storm god embodies excellence and cannot lose.
At the end of the day, the storm deities conquered most of the world. However Rome didn't take Ireland, and we mostly stuck with solar deities until embracing the organising force that is Christianity. So storm deities win overall, but for some solar deities still work.
Now to say something that might get my head chopped off. The Judeo-Christian god is clearly a middle-eastern storm god. YHWH eventually replaces El, but El sort of lives on as the uniting Allah. Both Christianity and Islam have been successful at maintaining civilisations.
People who follow modern Hermetic philosophy can embrace all gods and religions at the same time. Why not? Sure we are all united under the monad. Connect with the Earth like a good celt, and love thy neighbour like Jesus would do.
Personally, I haven't physically recovered from the lockdown just yet, so I guess I will honour whatever gets me a goat farm first.
