-SM Stirling, The Desert And The Blade (New York, 2016), Chapter Eight, p. 142.
"...he'd used the general terms rather than a specific deity's name, which was a witch's way of being nondenominational." (ibid.)
For other examples of pagan ecumenism, see here:
the Romans equate the Ysan Belisama, Taranis and Lir with their own Venus, Jupiter and Neptunus (Ys);
we chant "...Gods send..." or "...God send..." (Lancaster);
a priest of Poseidon might tactfully honor Athene (The Shield Of Time);
Gratillonius worships Mithras, incarnates Taranis and is the prefect of a Christian state (Ys).
(Thor is on cinema screens again.)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I think you are forgetting an important point about Gratillonius--as time passed he came to have only contempt, even loathing, for the "gods" of Ys. He even discreetly encouraged the Christian in Ys, as one means of undermining faith in "gods" he despised.
Sean
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