Pantheonism (Religion)

Overview
Pantheonism is a universal religion the believes that all beings and objects within the universe have a corisponding deity. These deities are constantly merging and divinding, creating a dynamic material universe. Pantheonism readily assimulates other religious deities as its own.

Origin
Pantheonism started as a means to explain why different people held different gods. As it encountered new deities, it incorperated them as a means to explain the shifting nature of the world. Pantheonism really took root when tribal leaders began to evoke the name of a deity to lergitimize their rule. Uprisings and changes in government were believed to be shifts in the balence of power in the divine realm.

Theology
Pantheonism expresses that reality is a reflection of the cosmic struggle between divine beings as they seek to absorb and break from the embodyment of other deities. For instance, Halmina is the godess of nature, who is made up of many lesser deities such as Magga, the goddess of illness, and Kortan, the god of stone. These other gods are not just subservient to Halmina, they are Halmina. Kortan is her feet, and Magga her wrath. However, they may at any time break away and become sovereign, free to absorb others.

Just as men wish to rule everything, the gods wish to be everything.

Many deities represent human political organizations, such as Larican, the god of stability. Infact, every political organization in existance has a patron deitiy, whether the members of the organization know it or not.

Many Pantheonist beleive that individules bear the aspects of a deity and are physical manifestations of those gods. It goes without saying that the number of gods in Pantheonism is staggering.