Saturday, October 19, 2013

Assignation Of Appropriate And Fitting Pronouns For The Deities

For the wicked Father (Satan) and the wicked Mother (Lera), when they are referred to, let them be called him and her respectively. for the good Father (God) and the good Mother (Goddess), when they are mentioned, let them be named Him and Her respectively. These pronouns replace the more androgynous sounding De (short for Deity) that I used to apply to both of the singular, good deities, in a manner that did not respectfully differentiate their gender traits. This oversight has long bothered me but I did not know how to solve it. Yesterday, the answer just came to me at work. The continued and proper use of De as a generic, collective pronoun for considering the good deities collectively is not singularly definite, but nor does it sound or imply that the good deities are different personalities of one absolute, androgynous, benevolent deity. Let the FAther be He. Let Mother be She.

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