“Where is the graveyard of dead gods? What lingering mourner waters their mounds? There was a time when Jupiter was the king of the gods, and any man who doubted his puissance was ipso facto a barbarian and an ignoramus. But where in all the world is there a man who worships Jupiter today? And who of Huitzilopochtli? In one year - and it is no more than five hundred years ago - 50,000 youths and maidens were slain in sacrifice to him. Today, if he is remembered at all, it is only by some vagrant savage in the depths of the Mexican forest. Huitzilopochtli, like many other gods, had no human father; his mother was a virtuous widow; he was born of an apparently innocent flirtation that she carried out with the sun.
When he frowned, his father, the sun, stood still. When he roared with rage, earthquakes engulfed whole cities. When he thirsted he was watered with 10,000 gallons of human blood. But today Huitzilopochtli is as magnificently forgotten as Allen G. Thurman. Once the peer of Allah, Buddha and Wotan, he is now the peer of Richmond P. Hobson, Alton B. Parker, Adelina Patti, General Weyler and Tom Sharkey.
Speaking of Huitzilopochtli recalls his brother Tezcatlipoca. Tezcatlipoca was almost as powerful; he consumed 25,000 virgins a year.
Lead me to his tomb: I would weep, and hang a couronne des perles. But who knows where it is? Or where the grave of Quetzalcoatl is? Or Xiuhtecuhtli? Or Centeotl, that sweet one? Or Tlazolteotl, the goddess of love? Of Mictlan? Or Xipe? Or all the host of Tzitzimitl? Where are their bones? Where is the willow on which they hung their harps? In what forlorn and unheard-of Hell do they await their resurrection morn? Who enjoys their residuary estates? Or that of Dis, whom Caesar found to be the chief god of the Celts? Of that of Tarves, the bull? Or that of Moccos, the pig? Or that of Epona, the mare? Or that of Mullo, the celestial jackass? There was a time when the Irish revered all these gods, but today even the drunkest Irishman laughs at them.
But they have company in oblivion: the Hell of dead gods is as crowded as the Presbyterian Hell for babies. Damona is there, and Esus, and Drunemeton, and Silvana, and Dervones, and Adsullata, and Deva, and Bellisima, and Uxellimus, and Borvo, and Grannos, and Mogons. All mighty gods in their day, worshipped by millions, full of demands and impositions, able to bind and loose - all gods of the first class. Men labored for generations to build vast temples to them - temples with stones as large as hay-wagons.
The business of interpreting their whims occupied thousands of priests, bishops, archbishops. To doubt them was to die, usually at the stake. Armies took to the field to defend them against infidels; villages were burned, women and children butchered, cattle were driven off. Yet in the end they all withered and died, and today there is none so poor to do them reverence.
What has become of Sutekh, once the high god of the whole Nile Valley? What has become of: Resheph Anath Ashtoreth El Nergal Nebo Ninib Melek Ahijah Isis Ptah Anubis Baal Astarte Hadad Addu Shalem Dagon Sharaab Yau Amon-Re Osiris Sebek Molech?
All there were gods of the highest eminence. Many of them are mentioned with fear and trembling in the Old Testament. They ranked, five or six thousand years ago, with Yahweh Himself; the worst of them stood far higher than Thor. Yet they have all gone down the chute, and with them the following: Bilé Ler Arianrhod Morrigu Govannon Gunfled Sokk-mimi Nemetona Dagda Robigus Pluto Ops Meditrina Vesta
You may think I spoof. That I invent the names. I do not. Ask the rector to lend you any good treatise on comparative religion: You will find them all listed. They were gods of the highest standing and dignity-gods of civilized peoples-worshiped and believed in by millions. All were omnipotent, omniscient and immortal.
when people talk about playing god, they often mean taking a life. anyone can take a life, so in that sense, yes, people can "play" god.
but it's women who gave birth to that life - a far nobler pursuit, even described as a blessing regularly or even a miracle, yet they aren't called god for that ability.
when a young, healthy person is dying from a sudden horrific accident, the person knelt by their side praying to a god cannot control the ultimate outcome, though they try in that moment to sway their god... and neither, apparently, can their god save them if the accident is grave enough.
some will call this god's will and encourage using faith to accept the outcome.
@ninalanyon which means God is more defined than humans He created. He also created challenges for us and the weakling's consciousness depending on this pathetic world we live in.....it's too much for humans...
No one has power to play God . You let God by God and don’t analyse God and accept the good times and the hardships without analysing God . You start analysing God especially with what’s going on in your life you’ll end up clinging to something which will cause you a lot of pain . Leave life happen and try not talk about people in a bad way , deal with your past the best way you can . Accept your past the good times and not so good times and your life with simpler without analysing God . If only this didn’t happen to me cause that thinking will bring you into another disease of its own called self pity . That’s another pain crusher. You’ll never get it right 100% 😂😂😂. Why ? Cause we’re not God
I don't think humanity will ever have that kind of power, even though it sometimes behaves as if it thinks it does. But then, it probably depends on the definition of God or which kind of god.
Hmmm, you must be an alien... you're married, straight, have babies, love your hubs, have doubts about normal things to have doubts about, and you're questioning the universe a little bit. Yep, you're an alien
@SandWitch With all the haters here who bully and threaten me do you think I want to disclose where I worship? I just read my Bible. Many churches have been led away by Satan. They are now so political and live mostly for this world instead of the next. They are not even preaching Jesus return this generation which is going to surprise many christians when he comes.
