Current mood:

contemplative

Nebs Sez
..excerpt from a comment thread..

"I was talking purely of my own process toward...'something', that for now I have called Post-Pagan in that it moves beyond the necessary regionalism of Pagan paths, being Old School and grounded in local histories.

Pagans - at least those that I know - are humans, so their Paganism is anthropocentric. They are generally born of two genders, so their Paganism is dualistic. They live on Earth, so their Paganism is geocentric. And most in this country are culturally - and often racially - European, so their Paganism is Eurocentric.

What I'm looking at is past that. How would a Majickal practice for a monogendered species look and operate? Or for a quadragendered one? And given present developments, we likely won't have to find extraterrestrials in order to meet such species."

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gender

sapphoq
2007-12-30 10:04 pm UTC (link)

Ah, so that is part of the why behind the duo-theism of wicca.
I wonder if monotheism has as part of its' base that one gender just might be considered more important or powerful or worthy than another...?

See the thing is, I don't acknowledge duo-genderism.
I think the case can be made for gender being on a continuim just as gender orientation and sexual orientation are.
Strictly speaking, the xx and xy thing would seem to support the duo-gender thing.
Yet some people are born with variants. Those who are born with androgen insufficiency syndrome and those born with true hermaphoditism-- would they constitute a third gender or more than a third or just stuck with being described as "having characteristics of both" and then defined by chromosomal values?

I suspect there are more than three genders.
But then, I've been known to push the envelope.

spike

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