2018 Update

Please see the drop down menus under the heading of this blog for information about Roman Polytheism. Note that almost everything on this website has been repurposed from the blog neo polytheist of which I am also the author.

In 2017 I became a widow and so unsurprisingly the posts on the blog which is the parent to this website have mostly focused on death, they include:

• Buddhist Beliefs Regarding the Afterlife
• Dis Pater and Proserpina
• Germanic Beliefs Regarding the Afterlife
• Hecate in the Roman Tradition
• Western Mourning Traditions

Inevitably my approach to religion changed significantly during 2017. I used to focus on making offerings to the Gods at my household shrine. Doing so seems to have lulled me into a false and perhaps childish belief that I could live the good life so long as I observed these rites, ie, into hubristic thinking. I no longer think that it is that simple to connect with the divine, I have ideas about a better approach but I don’t want to get prescriptive. Instead, I hope that readers can benefit from the countless hours of research I have put in (in the writing of the content on this website) to better understand traditional Roman spirituality, while ultimately finding their own path.

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2017 Update

Just an update to note that unlike neo polytheist (my other website / blog), this website is more or less confined to the subject of Roman polytheism.

If you would like to see my posts on Germanic polytheism please see:

• Freyja – Love Goddess
• Freyr – Lord of Plenty
• Germanic Divination – Runes
• The Germanic God and Gods of Fire
• Germanic Pagan Lego
• Germanic Pagan Tattoos
• Odin
• The Religion of the Rus
• Tacitus on Indigenous Germanic Religion

If you are interested in other miscellaneous posts of mine, you might be interested in the following blog posts:

• Epicurean Polytheism
• The Gods of Misery
• The Golden Ass and the Catamite
• How Many Polytheists / Pagans Are there?
• In Praise of Venus
• Julian the Apostate – Pagan Hero?
• Pagan Idolatry
• Shamanism
• Voluptuous Venus

 

Salve!

This website is the sister website to romanpagan.blogspot.com (also known as neo polytheist). I have set it up in order to repurpose content from that blog in a way that may be more navigable (see the drop down menu in the tool bar above) for people who are new to Roman polytheism, which is also called the Cultus Deorum, the Religio Romana, Roman Paganism and/or the Roman way to the Gods. Roman polytheism incorporates a fundamentally diverse set of beliefs, with the unifying feature being a recognition that the universe is permeated by numerous divine spirits, the greatest of which are Gods. Contemporary Roman polytheism is not about reenacting an ancient religion (that would be imprudent, given how different our social realities are) but rather seeking to gain an understanding of how polytheism was understood and practised in the diverse lands of the Roman empire, from Britannia to Assyria, and adapting that knowledge to our contemporary understanding of spirituality and the divine.

Please note that this website presents one person’s interpretation of Roman polytheism. No person or organisation can claim that they alone represent or understand Roman polytheism, and I certainly make no such claims. I hope you will find this website helpful in your own spiritual journey, while all the while keeping your mind wide open to the possibility that I might have got it wrong (or right). I am no believer in the “one true way”, for as the Gods are many so are the ways. Maybe some of the things I espouse won’t work for you, in which case may your own spirit of enquiry point you in the direction of that which feels most true. That said, I give you an assurance of my sincerity in putting this website together and my commitment to researching both ancient and contemporary scholarly sources in order to illuminate the Roman way to the Gods.

“The sea hath its pearls” by Margetson (1897)

Written by M. Sentia Figula; find me at romanpagan.blogspot.com and Roman Pagan on Facebook