@Cat_LeFey This is why I like the #Polycentric #Polytheism model of Butler, it transcends the soft and hard versions of polytheism and negates them, to my mind at least.

https://www.academia.edu/30296722/_Polycentric_Polytheism_pp._37-40_in_Witches_and_Pagans_32_June_2016_

Amazonian Polytheisms and Animism (Excerpt by Dr. Edward Butler)

"In South America we find many and diverse indigenous traditions, as well as traditions from the African Diaspora, which we will discuss separately. In the native traditions there is a sharp ecological and social difference between the forest dwelling, stateless peoples of the Amazon, represented in the reading for this unit by works of Yanomami theology, some collected by anthropologists and some authored by Davi Kopenawa, a spiritworker and advocate for his people and for the forest, and on the other hand, the Andean cultures of the mountains and seashore, which goes back as far as 3200 BCE, in which can be discerned a series of cultural phases, the latest of which being the empire of the Inca. The distinction between ‘stateless’ and ‘state’ societies, while of heuristic value, should not be taken to imply a lesser degree of ‘development’ or complexity in the former than the latter. In reality, all societies, having all lived through the same span of time, probably exhibit the same degree of ‘development’, albeit in different directions."

More:
https://oscillations.one/Assets/Publications/On+Amazonian+Polytheisms

#polytheism #Polycentric #Yanomami #Animism

@rien The concept of #Polycentric is very interesting for this: cryptographic identities; you set up a list of servers to publish to, and they can choose which posts they pass on to their subscribers ("recommend"). This platform is still PoC quality though.

https://gitlab.futo.org/polycentric/polycentric/
https://polycentric.io/

@Em @AimeeMaroux As Euripides has Herakles say in the eponymous play.

**"Nor can I ever believe that one God is the lord of another.

A God, if he is a real God, is in need of nothing."**

Which works well with a #polycentric framework of #polytheism, I'd say.

Sovereignty of the Gods is shared amongst what #Proclus calls the totality of the divine set (pas ... theios arithmos), a manifold of Gods that are prior to Being where each God contains all of being.

RT @dwebSociety
#bottomUp #polyCentric models,
was worth it to listen till the end.

@TBSocialist and @kelsiemvn speak to @quinndupont.

The more this series moves from critic towards solutions the better it gets.

https://theblockchainsocialist.com/overthrowing-the-network-state-untangling-balajis-helical-theory-of-history/

@SimonB LOL, yes I've had thoughts on how the #polycentric nature of Proclus's polytheistic #theology is similar to the Fediverse model in some way! Every God/Instance is the whole thing, but in its own individual way that is revealed differently/in a varied way to other Gods/Instances.

Paganism, Polycentricity and Human Rights in the United States

International Commission for Human Rights and Religious freedom

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nwUoqwU-PLw15deCnkgh7GkyXpA9X0z2/view

#polycentric #polytheist

@khthoniaa I like these kind theological perspective that remove that hard/soft polytheist distinction.

It's similar to the All-in-All of the likes of #Platonists like #Proclus, where every God is the Universe and contains all things (including the other Gods) in them but maintains their individuality.

I like Edward Butlers philosophy of #Polycentric #Polytheism based on this.

https://www.academia.edu/30296722/_Polycentric_Polytheism_pp_37_40_in_Witches_and_Pagans_32_June_2016_

(Polycentricity seems apt for Fediverse too!)

Nice to believe that several million new #anarchists have been created now they understand how a #polycentric #self-governance system can be better than a monolithic, corporate, #centralised behemoth of coercive #government

Read about the little imbroglio between much of the fediverse and mastodonapp.uk over the past week to see how non-violence can fix issues so we can all live together and solve problems between free instances.

@donnodubus @dianmanios Yes was going to say that extending from the Irish mediaeval literature context a God being Three doesn't negate a singular God of that name. Brighid & Lugh, the three sons of Tuireann, all have triadic vibes but in the pagan revival are worshiped mostly singularly when worshipped.

(In my modern interpretation I see this as the Irish & Gauls preempting a #Polycentric #Polytheist worldview but emphasis on *my* and *modern* there!).

New #openaccess publication! 🎉

Co-authored this paper with researchers from the UK, Malaysia, the Philippines, & Vietnam.

We analyzed how the emergence of #polycentric #governance in #maritime context affect #sustainability and #equity in #socialecological systems in Southeast Asia.

#Science #Academic

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901122002507

New #openaccess publication! 🎉

Co-authored this paper with researchers from the UK, Malaysia, the Philippines, & Vietnam.

We analyzed how the emergence of #polycentric #governance in #maritime context affect #sustainability and #equity in #socialecological systems in Southeast Asia.

#Science #Academic

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901122002507