#brief mention of kitsugi

[somethinginterestingithink]

I have a bit of a bone to pick....

Pagan religions are not Neo-religions, technically.

Pagan religions are whatever we could salvage from the destruction that was/is Christianity.

Pagan is an umbrella term for those who follow the religions of BEFORE Christianity's bid for world domination, considering the fair few sects we have.

My mother is what we call a Mixed Bag Pagan, whilst I am a Norse Pagan. (Although, I have stated that I am No-One, the believer of old, "myth" religions, I have a stronger pull towards the Norse.)

Now, what does any of that mean? I'll explain it bit by bit.

Because "Pagan" is a bit of an umbrella term, no matter which religions we practice, we are overall Pagan.

And how we know which religion to partake in, the same as any other person partaking in religion. That gut feeling. The little voice inside us say, "This is it. This is the one." (Although, as exampled above, that is not always the case.)

To describe this pull, I'll give a brief example:

Imagine, if you will, we are sat across from eachother at a table. I am blindfolded. You set 3 cards down in front of me.

A Celtic knot

A Nordic rune

An Egyptian hiroglyph

You tell me, who has no idea what the cards display, to choose a card.

I will hesitate for a few moments, before inevitably picking up the card with the Nordic rune.

That is the pull. Some of us feel a pull to many, hence Mixed Bag, and some of us feel a pull to just one or an overarching one, hence why I do not mind the label "Norse Pagan".

Technically, any non-Christian religion is a Pagan religion, if you really want to get technical...

Anyway, on a technicality, there really ain't no Neo about Paganism. It's an umbrella term for what was salvaged and pieced together. Kinda like Kintsugi in a respect.