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V.0.

Patron Deities

R.K.

361-372

V.1.

Gods as Dominant

Jennifer Hunter

373-377

V.2.

Chain of Command, Pt. II

Lydia Helasdottir

379-383

V.3.

Bread of Life

Skian McGuire

385-395

V.4.

Gods'-Slave

Galina Krasskova

397-405

V.9.

Aphrodite

R.K.

417-419

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VI.

LeatherPagan Tribe

[R.K.]

423-425

V.0.

Patron Deities

R.K. (Helgrenze)

361-372

p. 361

"No matter how well They treat you ..., They are Gods and we are Not. ... We are all submissive in the presence of the Divine Will, and anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't had to deal with Divine Will up close and personal, day in and day out."

p. 362

"when someone has a sudden up-close experience with Deity, ... we touch the Gods ... frightened by them, or ... being automatically forced into the submissive role".

p. 362

"If we study ancient history ... we find ... Certain classes of priests, priestesses, ... were said to have been "chosen" by their patron deity, and it was generally accepted that for the rare few who were chosen, there was no refusing the call. To do so would merely anger the deities in question, which could be fatal. In many tribal shamanic traditions ..., shamans were often chosen nonconsensually by the spirits, and if they refused to take up the job, they were stricken {by those spirits} with insanity and/or death."

p. 363

"the older I got, and the further down this path I was dragged {by deities}, the more it felt to me like I was the slave of a domme {viz., dominant goddess} far more powerful than myself, with .. no chance of leaving. ... I thought I'd better look at these people who were doing it consensually ..., in a fulfilling way. ...

When I finally got the submissive servant who was right for me, ... I found myself in the odd position of being grateful both that he was so content to serve another ... human being, and that I wasn't required to. In a very real sense, ... it's a good thing that my top isn't human, then, isn't it?

p. 364

It's especially difficult to be a dominant personality who has been made a god-slave. ... But for some reason, ... most of the hierodules that I know are dominant, willful people ... . It seems that much of the work that we are required to do would crush gentler souls, so they [the deities] pick combative ones and bring us to heel. ... I'm a top, ... Yet I was chosen, grabbed up, and thoroughly enslaved by the Death Goddess ..., Hela. She ... installed a cosmic shock collar on me. She also opened me to the Cosmos and the Gods. ...

p. 365

Certainly, from what I remember of my past lives, I

was not a nice person. Actually, from what I know of who I am now, I am not a nice person.

{was and am not a nescient person, though an amiable one}

It is quite possible that the world is better off with me on a short leash."

{One's needs may mesh better with one's abilities in this scheme. (From each, according to needs; to each, according to abilities.)}

p. 365

"Voudoun, ... Umbanda, Candomble ... all ... practice the the rite of god-possession. In this practice, part of the deity's consciousness comes down and inhabits the body of a human being, using it to walk about and interact with others. The mind of the human being in question may be completely unconscious, or in a vague,

p. 366

faraway state unable to move the body {while the occupying deity is instead doing the moving of the body}. ... .

... give over your flesh to a greater Power that will use it, walk around in it, experience whatever food and drink it wills ..., and perhaps even have sex[ual intercourse] in it, as some European deities expect. During this time, maybe you're in the equivalent of the passenger seat, giving advice on driving your vehicle. This, however, is rare. More likely you're in the back seat behind safety glass, and even more likely you're unconscious and locked in the trunk, as it [one's plight] is."

"Some god-slaves have permissive {though supernatural/divine} owners who let them do whatever they want with their lives so long as certain activities get done.

Some [god-slave-owning deities] are terribly strict, leveling taboos on food, clothing, sexual activity, jobs, possessions, living quarters, and all manner of other things.

I have {supernaturally imposed} restrictions on what food and chemicals I put into my body, what fibers my clothing may be made from, where I may live, and what I may accept as payment for shamanic work. I have two divinely arranged relationships {bigamous (bi-androus) marriages}, and I am not allowed to leave or divorce them. ...

Some god-slaves are also god-wives, god-concubines, or otherwise erotically involved with their {divine} owners. I know of more than a few who are married to their deity, and many (not all) are monogamous with their divine spouse".

p. 366

"It seemed to be an important thing for Hela to "rent" {lease?} me out other deities".

p. 367

"Lady Death ... had lent me temporarily to other gods for training ... . She had even done so across pantheons (according to her, I had to be

p. 368

cognizant of many different traditions, in order to better understand the people who came to me) so I shouldn't have been surprised when Baphomet showed up ... . He came to me at a Pagan sex gathering ..., forcing his way into my body ... like a rape ... and

running my poor flesh [body] up and down [actual] hills. ... .

{This is often done to Siberian shaman-apprentices by their controller-deity.}

... I cannot enter a currently-in-use temple to the Love Goddesses, nor approach a sacred prostitute while they are "on duty". ... Then I discovered that after they were done doing their job, they would come to me to come back to themselves ..., another way in which I had become a useful tool {for regulating the relationship between other spirit-workers and their deities}.

My sadism was harnessed; ... I suddenly became obsessed with framing BDSM as a spiritual path. .... After Baphomet, people came to me ... asking for rites of passage, or spiritual ordeals, and I found that I couldn't {was not permitted by goddess Hel to} say no to them. It had become my Job."

p. 368

"I learned to look at someone and see their {his or her} demons, to talk to them in various ways that coaxed those demons to the surface. I learned to design rituals for those demons. I learned to use energy on people in ways that would horrify the average Reiki

p. 369

master or bodyworker. Yet always, while wielding this power I would remember that I was a slave {of Hel}, even more than the person [client] cowering at my feet. If I forgot for a moment, one of Them {minions of Hel} would be there, reminding me."

p. 369

"My name is Raven {Hrafn?} Bran[-]gwyn Kaldera. ... It was the name She [Hel] gave me, suddenly, one day. ...

p. 370

Bran[-]gwyn is a family name, meaning "white raven" ... . Kaldera is an ancestral name, from the Romany Kalderash, borrowed from the Spanish "caldera" -- cauldron -- meaning

potmaker. ...

{or else, a user[ess] of cauldrons, as to praepare witches' brews}

"Potslave," I said, thinking of Gwion Bach who minded Cerridwen's cauldron and ended up the great bard Taliesin, but not before he had gotten eaten {by Cerridwen} first."

"She, being Death who never wastes anything -- not even

the fingernails of corpses --

{an allusion to the ship Nagl-fari}

... left [for] me, even the ... greatest gift of ... all the sex[ual enjoyment] I could possibly have the time for."

V.1.

Gods as Dominant

Jennifer Hunter

373-377

"I started hearing the voice of Deity around age 16 ... . I was a social outcast ..., and gifted with some amount of psychic ability. When I started a Wiccan practice, I realized that the Goddess was immediately accessible to me ... . ... I did ... hear the Lady's {Goddess's} voice ... with my mind, as thought and phrases that weren't my own."

"In college, ... I began to experiment with sex magic and the Great Rite, as I allowed the Goddess to enter me and make love to her consort through my partner. ... From adolescence, I wanted a Pagan partner, someone to walk the path with me. ... all along, ... My partners would be Pagan".

p. 375

"Yet all along there has been a deep and powerful truth ... : I already have a dominant who walks my path. ... He is the Horned God himself. ...

p. 376

I was at a Pagan festival ... years ago when ... I stopped at the maypole. I intended to say a brief hello to the God, the Horned One. As I placed my hands on the sides of the pole, ... My body was filled with vibrant sexual energy from cunt to mouth. ... And I realized ... that the Horned One was there as my permanent partner, any time I wanted to call on him. He wants me as his priestess."

p. 376

"Since the Wiccan Horned God is an almalgam of several different deities (Pan, Cernunnos ...), he's something of a modern construct. ...

I'd also like to do more ...

p. 377

into the various specific Horned Gods ... about their personalities and preferences. (Greedy slut that I am, ... the more ... the better.)

I've been a polytheist for many years, always believing in the many Gods that humanity has ... discovered. ... Yet I've found that service and submission are a mighty effective way to let them into us. The fringe benefits are serenity and contentment."

V.2.

Chain of Command, Pt. II

Lydia Helasdottir

379-383

p. 379

"Hela, my Goddess, owns me ... . I am her slave, her tool ... . ...

So ... we ... see a Deity as ... in Hela's case, deep purple or aubergine -- Hela manifests aubergine fully ..., but it's only aubergine. ...

p. 380

So when I do her work, I strive to be Her embodied. The people I work with may need something done to their bodies or their energy systems that she finds it hard to do from up there. And ... She can work through me on them, if I let her do it."

"I've been shunned by the Pagan community for doing BDSM.

I've been shunned by the BDSM community ... for dragging religion in all the time."

"I've just recently started to graduate to the Queen level ... . ...

{or rather, to the Empress-level, if the imperial "deep purple" (mentioned on p. 379) be an indication}

I have to manifest a Queen-level responsibility for everything that I do. ... the Queen cannot refuse to give audience to the people."

V.3.

Bread of Life

Skian McGuire

385-395

p. 385

"She [the Goddess] is my Femme Bitch Top. ... I spread my legs for Her, too. Every orgasm I have is dedicated to Her ... . ...

p. 386

If she is Brighid, She's the feminine God[dess] of fire, and of smithcraft, and healing, and poetry ... . She was once the patron[ess] of midwives, also, as her namesake Saint Brigid is, now, of whom it is said that she was the midwife {for Mary Ever-Virgin Mother of God} and foster mother of Jesus".

p. 392

"what I get after all these years is a humongous clit and such a major sex drive that all I want to do is masturbate three or four times a day. ...

p. 393

I race home after work, ... crazy to ... get fingers on my clit ... . ... All my adult life, I've worried that

my sexual needs would be too much work for someone else, that I would tire a lover out ... . ...

{Although such sexual needs may be "too much work" for any one lover, the needs could hardly be too much work for multiple (3 or 4) lovers sharing her among themselves.}

This is my spiritual practice, now : ... every orgasm is Hers. ...

She wants me to play the guitar

{Is this suggestion by goddess Brigantia intended as an indication to use the vin.a ('lute') for the sake of its capacity to play the Ragin.i-s [-- there being some likeness of Raga-s and of Ragin.i-s to the tunes employed in West Africa for summoning of deities for deity-possession caerimonies]?}

instead of working on a piece of writing, because ... She wants me to take a break."

p. 394

"Thanks to the Quakers with whom I sit in worship every Sunday, I know that being faithful ... is something you do ... . It must be taken by the body I have,

p. 395

which ... She gave me. Sex[ual activity] is the gift She gave all of us to effect Her own ecstatic union. ...

Sex[ual intercourse] to Her is a sacrament, and in that regard I am wholly Pagan."

[supra p. 2 : "All acts of love and pleasure are Her rituals, says the old maxim from "Aradia"," (the book of the witches of Italy.)]

V.4.

Gods'-Slave

Galina Krasskova

397-405

"I had a good relationship with ... Loki and it was really Loki who first introduced me to Odin (or Woden ...). ... I learned [the significances of] the runes from HIm later how to galdr. ... He slipped into me quite early on, possessing me and allowing me to share physical body-space with a God. ,,,

He taught me to journey to Yggdrasil, the Tree ... upon which he hung for nine nights

in agony

{Nay! Deities do not suffer a whit, much less "agony". (When Christians assert that God suffered agony, they are uttering an untruth.)}

in His quest for the runes.

{Not really! Deities are all-knowing through aeternity, however they may tell stories, or shew cinemata, of their feigned "quaest" (shewn merely in order to encourage mortals to undertake such a quaest).}

He taught me to utilize the Tree as my stang, through which I could journey to the other eight worlds. He taught me to see and pluck and read and eventually alter the threads of wyrd themselves. ...

I had his mark, the val[-]knot, a symbol composed of three interlocking triangles[,] tattooed on my body."

"Woden did court me ... . I fell in love with Him over the course of several years. ... On the Solstice, my kindred {cult-membres} held a wedding ritual ... wherein I ritually wed the Old Man. ... From the moment of our wedding, He was always with me."

p. 401

"I sustained an injury in the course of my work caused by ... elfshot. ... It also cut off my ability to function as a spirit-worker and blocked me off enough that it impaired my perception of my relationship with Woden. ...

p. 402

When I attended a shamanic retreat ... in ... the ... night, around a bonfire, with a dozen mystics, shamans, spirit-workers, healers, God-spouses, and God-slaves present, ... I was pretty soon tranced from the chanting and drumming ..., but the sight and sense of the elfshot leaving me was palpable.

Woden come into me at one point and began to laugh as He did something that send it [the elfshot] it all back to {whence it had come}."

p. 402

"He {O`dinn} told me then ... that I was now required to serve as his valkyrie. A human valkyrie is one who brings the darker gifts ... : pain, terror, ordeal ... . ... To do these rites, He temporarily removes His valkyries' humanity ... . ...

p. 403

Since then, He has ... required me to undergo other pain ordeals of my own. ... Anything I do to His men, I must have done to me first[,] be it branding, cutting, tattooing, flogging, ... or ordeal by fear ... . ...

When Woden takes my humanity and makes me the right hand of death, as He does when I act as valkyrie, He takes me to a place that is devoid of feeling,

an immensely centered place."

{place of Shinto god 'Master of the August Centre of Heaven' (Ame-no-minaka-nusi), sometimes "identified with the Pole Star" (JNRW)}

"He uses me to speak His words, and ... to create a doorway through which He may act upon this world. ... . ... there are times when ... He bestows upon me an ecstasy so overwhelming that my human flesh can barely contain it. ... He has patterned

my head

{by His becoming her mai^tre-de-te^te}

and my will so that He may ride within me, wearing my flesh as His cloak and mask wherever He wishes. ... Through Him, I have moved in the company of Gods."

V.9.

Aphrodite

R.K.

417-419

p. 417

"Lady, Cyprian, She who rises from the foam ...

p. 418

-- Aphrodite Pandemos, ...

Aphrodite Genetrix, whose gift makes babies

Aphrodite Porne, Lady of Whores,

Aphrodite Urania,

... and Aphrodite On The Tomb ..."

VI.

LeatherPagan Tribe

[R.K.]

423-425

"Woden on the Tree, Inanna stripped and beaten,

Persephone raped, Gullveig three-times burned,

Fenris, Loki, Prometheus chained, ... Shiva's corpse

Disemboweled by his skull-[be]hung {i.e, skull-garlanded} mistress ..."