Spensorium

I do take a perennialist view to a degree – however, when people say, “mercury is Odin, Jesus Christ is quetzacoatl or Krishna” etc- that is a blatant oversimplification/category error ( in many cases, simply lazy and wrong).  I especially hate the “all religions are saying the same thing, all lead to the same truth, have the same goals” nonsense‐ your metaphysics utterly shapes your practice and your goals.

Mercury ≠ Odin, Mercury and Odin could be said to be the same perennial cosmological forces in which manifested themselves to different cultures, with different overarching karma, levels of consciousness, and understandings of them. Or that, they are largely the same forces, with slightly more or less delegated functional responsibility – more or less the same forces, but aggregated with others to varying degrees– demonstrated in a systems ontological framework.

They participate in the same overarching cosmological current, but each manifestation is a differently weighted aggregation of that current within a specific ontological ecology.

Essentially, per my understanding– many of these gods in which are qualitatively parallelled, are varying contemplations or reflections of the supreme consciousness’s cosmological forces, within the objective (perceived as distinct from the subject as opposed to an emitting or contraction of them) field of consciousness.

This doesnt make them “the same”, considering they are different aspects, mirroring, expressions of and alignments with the same cosmological force(s).. resulting in separate praxis and ontological relationship with each.

These distinct gods, are heavily tied to the karma and spanda of a culture, ethnicity and distinct individuals who may connect with them more than gods within their own culture or lack of.

Categorically, these varying conflated gods are akin to legions of one demon (though each legion and demon also appear or are understood differently to varying cultures)– the distinct variations of these cosmological forces is paramount, no minute difference at all.. to trivialize them is to not understand the esoteric nature of culture, ancestry and the idea of pratibimba.. how universal forces within reality and all things serve as a mirror to you and within the substrate of all reality itself.