Interesting... so when I am embodying The God in ritual, should I perhaps consider myself a priest? (I have simply never thought much about terms beyond 'ritualist'...)
I don't know you, but I am female and I am a priest. All the time. I suspect that now and then I might dip into priestess territory, but I am a priest. I can say more elsewhere if you'd like, for me, being a priest is an important thing, and the word choice has had a lot of impact on me.
Priest and priestess are interesting words. Then there's the whole difference between priest and monk, another discussion entirely!
I'd be interested in hearing how priest and priestess differ for you (inflection_point).
I've actually never seen any difference at all; the words just are gender markers for me. (a la 'ritualist')
Thinking about the blogger, he seems to conceive a priest for the goddess as taking the consort (god) role. That never occured to me, but I thought it was interesting.
So how do we define priest/ess.? I tend to think of a. 'works with this Deity as a primary deity; a deeper relationship' which leads to B. can work as an intermediary for community for invoking that deity, to one extent or another.
I think there's a couple of things there for me, the first is that I'm reacting to the -ess ending and wanting to use a word that doesn't have -ess attached to it. I feel that the ess brings a lot of things with it that I don't want to subscribe to. I am taking the word priest as the default here and priestess as the modified-of-default.
And yet, using the word ritualist, monk, or "horse" would bypass the priest/ess question entirely, and would be an accurate descriptions of certain functions that a priest/ess might do.
and yes, I think the blogger is conceiving of a priest as taking the consort role, there are some things there I want to think through -
does it matter what kind of consort? there's the very active consort, and there's the very receptive consort, and everything in between can manifest while doing the work. I'm going to have to think about this, because I am a priest, I've been the consort, and at least one rather memorable time it was very much receptive.
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a lot to ponder there...
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I don't know you, but I am female and I am a priest. All the time. I suspect that now and then I might dip into priestess territory, but I am a priest. I can say more elsewhere if you'd like, for me, being a priest is an important thing, and the word choice has had a lot of impact on me.
Priest and priestess are interesting words. Then there's the whole difference between priest and monk, another discussion entirely!
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I've actually never seen any difference at all; the words just are gender markers for me. (a la 'ritualist')
Thinking about the blogger, he seems to conceive a priest for the goddess as taking the consort (god) role. That never occured to me, but I thought it was interesting.
So how do we define priest/ess.? I tend to think of a. 'works with this Deity as a primary deity; a deeper relationship' which leads to B. can work as an intermediary for community for invoking that deity, to one extent or another.
excellent question
And yet, using the word ritualist, monk, or "horse" would bypass the priest/ess question entirely, and would be an accurate descriptions of certain functions that a priest/ess might do.
Something I need to think about more.
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does it matter what kind of consort? there's the very active consort, and there's the very receptive consort, and everything in between can manifest while doing the work. I'm going to have to think about this, because I am a priest, I've been the consort, and at least one rather memorable time it was very much receptive.
getting very tangly here.