I am Asatruar: Thorsman to be precise. I left Hinduism behind because there's much about it I don't hold with and don't sit right with me. Yet I'm not entirely ready to walk away from the deities themselves: Lakshmi, Saraswati, Hanuman, Shiva (mostly as Nataraja). I could never get close to Krishna, Rama, and Ganesha, despite the three of them being the most popular deities. I've tried to hold onto the Hindu deities as individual deities, without the philosophies of Hinduism, but I'm finding it difficult. I cannot merge the Hindu and Norse pantheons because they are completely different in form and function, not to mention worship.
Is it possible to hold onto the deities of a former religion without holding onto other beliefs of the former religion? Yet, I have not worshiped or prayed to the Hindu deities in a while. Something I am considering is that because I have a good amount of Hindu art, mostly in the form of statues I find to be very pretty, I am reluctant to break ties fully with the Hindu deities. That is, I'm reluctant to wrap them up and pack them away... they've become simply objets 'art. Is this wrong? Did any of this make sense?
Is it possible to hold onto the deities of a former religion without holding onto other beliefs of the former religion? Yet, I have not worshiped or prayed to the Hindu deities in a while. Something I am considering is that because I have a good amount of Hindu art, mostly in the form of statues I find to be very pretty, I am reluctant to break ties fully with the Hindu deities. That is, I'm reluctant to wrap them up and pack them away... they've become simply objets 'art. Is this wrong? Did any of this make sense?
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