Hey y’all, my beliefs are a little hard to explain but for simplicity’s sake I would call myself a hard polytheist heathen. I’m still learning more about my spirituality every day and I have a question that I often come back to.

How do you view gods that aren’t yours? I understand that most hard polytheists agree that all of the gods exist, which I agree with. But how do I reconcile the claims of other gods. An example of this would be how Christian’s believe their god is Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent. Do you believe he exists but is just lying about how powerful he is? Is he an exception among the gods and you don’t believe he exists at all? I’m interested to hear your perspectives on this.

A similar question is how do you view events such as creation? There is a creation myth in most beliefs, and I’m by no means a mythic literalist, however someone had to have made humanity right? Do you think it was your gods and the others are lying? Or did all the gods work together to create everything? This is an area where I don’t really know what to believe. I was raised Catholic and later turned atheist for many years, so I’ve never had to think about this before as the answer is pretty clear under both beliefs.

Any answers insights would be greatly appreciated!