do you syncretize any hellenic and hindu deities?
*chefs kiss* 🤌🏻 a delicious question, thank you!
So - my answer is kind of a yes and a no? [feel free to skip to the TLDR ⬇️]
For those of you who don’t know (which I’m going to assume is like all but 2 of you 😂) - YEARS ago now, I half-invented my own religion called Kaenaastha. It was an intentional syncretism of Hellenic Polytheism and Hinduism - and a core part of the religion was that all the deities were a syncretism of (at least) 1 Greek deity and 1 Hindu deity.
But in my current practice, I don’t syncretize any of the Devas with the Theoi *directly*. Instead, I almost see them as different cultural interpretations of the same energy? It’s hard to explain in words, but it’s almost like they (the deities I do pair together) are all avatars of the same entity? Or maybe it’s more like they’re all points along a singular spectrum?
And not all of these current alignments/groupings are the same as they were back in the Kaenaastha days, but some are! If anyone’s curious I’ll put my current groupings below the fold!
[TLDR] To make a long story short, I don’t directly syncretize the Devas with the Theoi. I worship the Devas in a Hindu manner, as unique deities/entities - and I worship the Theoi in a HelPol manner, also as unique deities/entities. But I do think that some Devas and some Theoi are part of the same lineage of entities/deities - just from different cultures ☺️