Religious Force-sensitive order

[Jax Vos]

I need to ask, before I make this any more detailed: Is anyone interested in a religious order that says that the Force is a pantheon of gods?

If so, please tell me before the time-skip. Or if you want, ask any questions at all. (it's the yellow link in my sig)

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

What do you mean by pantheon?

 

[Brandon Rhea]

What do you mean by pantheon?

Pantheon means a group of gods.

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

I know, but when I think of the force, I think 2 sides. So, like, 2 gods. I don't consider a 2 god system enough to be a pantheon, though I don't know if that's factual.

I don't know how you would make the force have more than 2 sides as a religion. Just having a hard time wrapping my head around it.

 

[Jax Vos]

I can explain it. The Erzan believe that the Unifying Force is one creator deity, Ellunvir. They also believe that the light side of Living Force is a variety of other lesser deities that are worshiped under the Unifying Force. (I'll explain the dark side later.)

 

[Jax Vos]

The dark side deities are evil versions of the light side deities that rebelled against the Unifying Force and were banished from the Netherworld because of their rebellion.

 

[Darth Tak]

What about a Neutrality God?

 

[Darth Tak]

The Original Jedi on Tython WAY BACK had two Gods (Light and Dark). Their moons where their Gods. If one where to fall too close to one side they will train in the other side.

 

[TweedPawn]

*evil grin* I'll be watching. >D

 

[Jax Vos]

You see that's not how I'm starting it. I'm starting it with the belief in only light and darkness. Now, if you're saying something like Ellunvir being neutral while his lower deities fight between themselves, that would be considered heresy by the Erzan.

However, I could see certain members of the group having this belief, but agreeing to disagree with the total light viewers because no one truly knows what the Force is.

Edit: I think most people on this site know about Je'daii belief system.

2: @TweedPawn, Thanks for watching, but I need people to help me make this faction.

 

[Nor'baal]

I would be willing to help out with this faction.

 

[Jax Vos]

I would be willing to help out with this faction.

PM me and we can talk then.

 

[Empress]

also to point out.. the force generally is not a two , one or the other system in large, in honesty the force is usually JUST the force, with multi facets. While over time the most prominent groups started a one or the other system it rarely was that cut and dry, there were always variants, always a gray area...usually when groups such as the golden age jedi became to dogmatic they generally self destructed shortly after. Ashla, Bogan, both taking new ideas and cultures from the Bendu or the sith ( whom also had many deities ) and so on and so on, so many cultures so manny ways to view things or build a philosophy around

but mind you again your not limited to thinking exactly in one way: there are countless cults, countless primitive cultures who dont know of the force ( or science) and can attribute different things to different things... yes you may see a force aware cult with two dominant deities , but you can easily trickle down to what most cultures do and assign a patron deity for different elements, such as a goddess of compassion, a god of despair and anguish, a goddess of wisdom, god of foresight, etc etc. you can easily break down the elements of the living condition and pass those along into a bigger chain

 

[Jax Vos]

Are you saying I should consider a gray area in my pantheon? Or what? I'm not sure what your point is exactly.

 

[Darth Tak]

Yeah. Like, Ying Yang and the retarted Transexual Yong. But like, a Revanite God?

 

[Jax Vos]

Definitely not! I am not doing anything that involves a former Jedi and Sith becoming a deity, that's just not a proper deity to me. (and I was technically asking Adena, but thanks for clearing that up for me)

Unless you'd like to elaborate more, I'll try to figure out how to get some gray deities in there.

 

[Darth Tak]

... Eh... how about a God of non-sensitivity?

 

[Empress]

Im basically saying that if you choose to, your not limited in the depth of a pantheon. if a one, two or even a three deity system is easier ( and would most likely be more dogmatic and absolute in their stances ) then go for that. However it you are wanting more range and ability to create a really rich mythology you go for the bigger deity families. as to where again you can take different aspects of the human condition/emotions etc and create them into deitites, and assign cause and effect things to them - much how you se pantheons on our own world - shinto for example having thousands of deities, kami, and other divine beings. I think it more depends on what sort of structure and how broad of a mythology your looking for - though rule of thumb with any religion system - the fewer deities/divinity - the more strict and less wiggle room they tend to have.

an example would be to take modern western Christianity- consider it a two deity system for all rights and purposes - and how all or nothing it tends to be and a mostly straight forward mythology/lore behind it, even the other Abrahamic ones share the same root and base lores and differ in truth to a very very very small degree. ( though you can argue some branches are even multi deity in function when you start factoring in mary as a fertility symbol, and the saints and their roles )

Now look at say; the Greek pantheon ( using this because more people have a general grasp of the mythology) notice how much more " wide open" things are. You have stories of the deities themselves and how they interact with each other, and how they interact with the world. you have a ton more options in what you want to convey and to illustrate the living condition with more room for interpretations.

Lets take the initial story of Medusa, largely seen as a villain Greek mythology. she began as a normal human temple priestess for Athena ( goddess of wisdom, the arts, philosophy, and war ) - and Athena's priestesses were to remain virgins and pure. She was raped by Poseidon inside Athena's temple ... and rather than blame her uncle for doing wrong, Athena played up her role as part of the " boys club) and decided to punish Medusa. This is when she became the gorgon we know, and later killed by Perseus in another tale and her head offered to athena.

just in that little story one can pic apart so many morals, so many places where one can dicker over right and wrong, how genders may be viewed within a culture, how normal people stand when it comes to the inner doings of the deities etc etc etc

- wow didn't mean to go long winded, but its a subject I love and something I love delving into so I ramble. But basically again presenting some examples or ideas on different ways to approach the idea and to let you know your not limited in scope into how to go about it, and opportunities to create a simple to very complex mythology to go with it.

 

[©razy Man]

I'd be interested in this. But I won't be on as much but I can offer as much help as possible. Probably Listian for it.

*The Elementalist*

 

[Jax Vos]

Im basically saying that if you choose to, your not limited in the depth of a pantheon. if a one, two or even a three deity system is easier ( and would most likely be more dogmatic and absolute in their stances ) then go for that. However it you are wanting more range and ability to create a really rich mythology you go for the bigger deity families. as to where again you can take different aspects of the human condition/emotions etc and create them into deitites, and assign cause and effect things to them - much how you se pantheons on our own world - shinto for example having thousands of deities, kami, and other divine beings. I think it more depends on what sort of structure and how broad of a mythology your looking for - though rule of thumb with any religion system - the fewer deities/divinity - the more strict and less wiggle room they tend to have.

an example would be to take modern western Christianity- consider it a two deity system for all rights and purposes - and how all or nothing it tends to be and a mostly straight forward mythology/lore behind it, even the other Abrahamic ones share the same root and base lores and differ in truth to a very very very small degree. ( though you can argue some branches are even multi deity in function when you start factoring in mary as a fertility symbol, and the saints and their roles )

Now look at say; the Greek pantheon ( using this because more people have a general grasp of the mythology) notice how much more " wide open" things are. You have stories of the deities themselves and how they interact with each other, and how they interact with the world. you have a ton more options in what you want to convey and to illustrate the living condition with more room for interpretations.

Lets take the initial story of Medusa, largely seen as a villain Greek mythology. she began as a normal human temple priestess for Athena ( goddess of wisdom, the arts, philosophy, and war ) - and Athena's priestesses were to remain virgins and pure. She was raped by Poseidon inside Athena's temple ... and rather than blame her uncle for doing wrong, Athena played up her role as part of the " boys club) and decided to punish Medusa. This is when she became the gorgon we know, and later killed by Perseus in another tale and her head offered to athena.

just in that little story one can pic apart so many morals, so many places where one can dicker over right and wrong, how genders may be viewed within a culture, how normal people stand when it comes to the inner doings of the deities etc etc etc

- wow didn't mean to go long winded, but its a subject I love and something I love delving into so I ramble. But basically again presenting some examples or ideas on different ways to approach the idea and to let you know your not limited in scope into how to go about it, and opportunities to create a simple to very complex mythology to go with it.

PM me please! (I really want to talk to you about some things involving the mythology.)

I'd be interested in this. But I won't be on as much but I can offer as much help as possible. Probably Listian for it.

*The Elementalist*

If you want to join, PM me and we can go over some things, like how he joins and the mythology of the pantheon.